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4 Nov 2020, 2:42 am by Jeremy Telman
Yehuda Adar and Samuel Becher, on Taking Boilerplate Seriously Samuel Becher One of the things that the current pandemic emphasizes is the importance of prevention. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 3:16 am by Jeremy Telman
The Terminators Uri Benoliel & Samuel Becher The literature that examines the questions surrounding the formation of consumer contracts is prodigious: Do consumers read standard form contracts? [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 3:21 am by Jeremy Telman
Uprooting Seductive Oral Deals * By Meirav Furth-Matzkin, Yuval Feldman & Samuel Becher The law generally assumes that contracting parties assent to a contract’s terms after reading and understanding them. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 4:05 pm by Lawrence Solum
Samuel Becher (Victoria University of Wellington) has posted Ex ante Access to Justice (30(2) Competition and Consumer Law Journal (2023, Forthcoming)) on SSRN. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 8:55 pm by Lawrence Solum
Uri Benoliel (College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School) & Samuel Becher (Victoria University of Wellington) have posted Messy Contracts (University of Illinois Law Review, forthcoming 2024) on SSRN. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 6:06 am by Lawrence Solum
Samuel Becher (Victoria University of Wellington) & Uri Benoliel (College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School) have posted Hidden Contracts (Brigham Young University Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 12:00 am by Lawrence Solum
Samuel Becher (Victoria University of Wellington) & Tal Zarsky (University of Haifa - Faculty of Law) have posted Big Mistake(s) (Florida Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. [read post]
6 May 2023, 2:00 am by Katharine Van Tassel
Samuel Becher (Victoria University of Wellington), The Alternative Meat of the Matter, 98 Tul. [read post]
7 Dec 2020, 1:49 pm by Orly Lobel
Samuel Becher has two interesting articles up on ssrn about consumer boilerplate contracts. [read post]
15 Feb 2021, 3:30 am by Jeremy Telman
Contracts in the Age Real-Life Babel Fish By Yonathan Arbel & Samuel Becher Famously, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy features a Babel fish, which is a fictional “small, bright... [read post]
6 Aug 2023, 2:00 am by Katharine Van Tassel
Samuel Becher (Victoria University), Ex ante Access to Justice (2023): Access to justice is a key challenge in the consumer protection landscape. [read post]
19 Jul 2020, 9:26 am by Orly Lobel
In a new article posted on ssrn Samuel Becher and Sarah Dadush argue that today companies are selling not only products and services but also the promise of long-term relationships and emotional connectedness. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 3:34 pm by Orly Lobel
Uri Benoliel and Samuel Becher (who is also my recent coauthor on a different consumer law piece Poor Consumer(s) Law: The Case of High-Cost Credit and Payday Loans) have a new article on consumer contracts called The Duty to Read the Unreadable, in which they do very interesting empirical work to test whether consumer contracts are written in a way that dissuades consumers from actually reading them. [read post]
21 Aug 2018, 9:27 pm by Orly Lobel
Samuel Becher (Victoria University), Yuval Feldman (Bar Ilan University) and I have a new paper we just uploaded on ssrn about behavioral law and economics, poverty and credit: Poor Consumer(s) Law: The Case of High-Cost Credit and Payday Loans forthcoming in Legal Applications of Marketing Theory, Jacob Gersen & Joel Steckel, eds., Cambridge University Press. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 4:48 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
This asymmetry—and its potential consequences—puzzled us,” wrote co-author Samuel Becher, a law professor at Victoria University of Wellington, in an email to Motherboard. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 9:05 pm by William McDonald
EDITOR’S CHOICE In an essay in The Regulatory Review, Samuel Becher, a professor at Victoria University of Wellington, argued that although consumers have a duty to read online terms and conditions contracts, companies are under no obligation to make those contracts readable. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 9:03 pm by Riann Winget
EDITOR’S CHOICE In an essay in The Regulatory Review, Samuel Becher, professor and associate dean at Victoria University of Wellington and Yehuda Adar, law faculty at University of Haifa, argued that regulatory agencies should better screen standard-form consumer contracts to prevent consumer exploitation. [read post]