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Books

Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule Of Law.  Princeton University Press, 2013. ­

Symposia on this book:

  • Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (April 1, 2013)
  • Author-Meets-Readers Panel, Law and Society Convention (June 1, 2013)
  • Author-Meets-Readers Panel, 8th International Conference on Contract Law (KCON 8) (February 2013)

See 15 online reviews and author’s replies to each of them on the ContractsProfsBlog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/

Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework (Foundation Press, 2002) (with John Rothchild and Gregory Silverman); Teachers Manual 2003; Supplement 2004; Supplement 2005; 2d edition (with additional co-author R. Anthony Reese)(2006); Supplement 2007; Supplement 2008; Supplement 2009; Supplement 2010; Supplement 2011; Supplement 2012

Securing Privacy in the Internet Age. Anupam Chander, Lauren Gelman, and Margaret Jane Radin, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.

Intellectual Property and the Internet (Foundation Press 2004) (paperback “spinoff” of the intellectual property chapters of the casebook)

Contested Commodities (Harvard University Press 1996)

Reinterpreting Property (University of Chicago Press 1993)

 

Articles and Book Chapters

"Contract in the Information Society:  The Deformation of Contract Theory", 37 Oxford J. Legal Studies (2017)

"Access to Justice and Abusive Contracts", Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol 33 issue 2 (2017)

“From Baby-selling to Boilerplate:  Reflections on the Limits of the Infrastructures of the Market”, 54 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, issue 2 (Winter 2017)

“The Fiduciary State and Private Ordering”, in Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law, (Oxford University Press, Paul B. Miller and Andrew S. Gold, eds, 2016)

“Taking Notice Seriously:  The Problem of Information Delivery and Consumer Contract Formation”, 17 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 515 (2016)

“Patent Notice and the Trouble with Plain Meaning”, 96 Boston U. Law Rev. 1093 (2016)

“Boilerplate:  A Threat to the Rule of Law?”, in Private Law and the Rule of Law, (Oxford University Press, Lisa Austin and Dennis Klimchuk, eds, 2015)

“An Analytical Framework for Legal Evaluation of Boilerplate”, in Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law, Oxford University Press (Gregory Klass, George Letsas, and Prince Saprai, eds, 2015)

“Less Than I Wanted to Know [A Comment on Omri Ben Schahar & Carl E. Schneider, More Than You Wanted To Know:  The Failure of Disclosure]”, 11 Jerusalem Rev. of Legal Studies (2015)

“Of Priors and of Disconnects”, 127 Harvard L. Rev. Forum 259 (2014) [Reply to book review by Michelle E. Boardmab]

“Response:  Boilerplate in Theory and Practice”, 54 Canadian Business L. J. 292 (2013)

“Reconsidering Boilerplate: Confronting Normative and Democratic Degradation”, 40 Capital U. L. Rev. 618 (2012)

“Rhetorical Capture”, 54 Arizona L. Rev. 457 (2012)

“Tribute to Frank Michelman”, 125 Harvard L. Rev. 896 (2012)

“Form Contracts and the Problem of Consumer Information”, 167 J. Institutional & Theoretical Economics 49 (2011)

“Property Longa, Vita Brevis: Conundrums of Intergenerational Justice”, 2011 Wisconsin L. Rev. 111

“The Rule of Law in the Information Age:  Reconciling Private Rights and Public Values”, 4 J. L. Philosophy & Culture 83 (2011)

“Boilerplate Today: The Rise of Modularity and the Waning of Consent”, in Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts (Omri Ben-Shahar, ed.) 189 (Cambridge Univ. Press 2007)

“Boilerplate Today:  The Rise of Modularity and the Waning of Consent”, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 1223 (2006)

“Copyright Defection”, 15 J. Industrial And Corporate Change 981 (2006)

“A Comment on Information Propertization and Its Legal Milieu”, 54 Cleveland State L. Rev.  23 (2006)

“Regulation by Contract, Regulation by Machine”, 160 J. Institutional & Theoretical Economics 142 (2004)

“Property and Precision”, 39 Tulsa L. Rev. 639 (2004)

“Regime Change in Intellectual Property Law: Superseding the Law of the State with the ‘Law’ of the Firm”, 1 U. Ottawa L. & Tech. J. 173 (2003-2004)

“Foreword:  The Subject and Object of Commodification”, in Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture (Martha Ertman & Joan Williams, eds) (New York University Press 2005) (with Madhavi Sunder)

“Information Tangibility”, in Economics, Law and Intellectual Property 395 (Ove Granstrand, ed) (Kluwer 2003)

“Incomplete Commodification in the Computerized World”, in The Commodification of Information 1 (Neil Netanel and Niva Elkin-Koren, eds 2002)

“Online Standardization and the Integration of Text and Machine”, 70 Fordham L. Rev. 1125 (2002)

“Can the Rule of Law Survive Bush v. Gore?” in Bush v. Gore:  The Question of Legitimacy (Bruce Ackerman, ed. 2002); reprinted in D. Rendelmen, Complex Litigation: Injunctions, Structural Remedies, and Contempt (2010)

“Cloning and Commodification”, 53 Hastings L.J. 1123 (2002)

“DDoS Attacks:  Who Pays?” 6 Cyberspace Lawyer No. 9 (Dec. 2001) (Part I) and 6 Cyberspace Lawyer No. 10 (Jan. 2002) (Part II)

“Response:  Persistent Perplexities”, 11 Kennedy Inst. Of Ethics J. 305 (2001) (commentary on articles in symposium issue on my book, Contested Commodities)

“Humans, Computers, and Binding Commitment”, 75 Indiana L. J. 1125 (2000)

“Retooling Contract for the Digital Era”, in Public Policy and the Internet, Hoover Institution (N. Imparato, ed. 2000)

“Altered States:  Electronic Commerce and Owning the Means of Value Exchange”, Stanford Technology L. Rev. (2000) (with Robert D. Fram and Thomas P. Brown)

“Doing Business in the Digital Era:  Some Basic Issues in E-commerce”, in Strategies for Success in the Digital Economy 51 (Practicing Law Institute 1999) (with Daniel L. Appelman)

“Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital: The Role of Non-Proprietary Technologies”, in Intellectual Capital (Hoover Institution 1999) (with Erin Sawyer)

“The Myth of Private Ordering:  Rediscovering Legal Realism in Cyberspace”, 73 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 1295 (1998) (with R. Polk Wagner)

“Property Evolving in Cyberspace”, 15 J. of L. & Commerce 509 (1996); Proprietà e ciberspazio, in 15 Rivista Critica Del Diritto Privato 89 (1997) (translation)

“Real Property and Direct Democracy in California”, in Constitutional Reform in California: Making State Government More Effective and Responsive (Bruce Cain and Roger Noll eds. 1995) (with Brendan P. Cullen)

“Reconsidering Personhood”, 74 Oregon L. Rev. 423 (1995)

“Positive Theory as Conceptual Critique: A Piece of a Pragmatic Agenda?” 68 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1595 (1995)

“A Deweyan Perspective on the Economic Theory of Democracy” 11 Constitutional Commentary 539 (1995)

“What, If anything, Is Wrong With Baby Selling?” 26 Pacific L. J. 135 (1995)

“Lacking a Transformative Social Theory”, 45 Stan. L. Rev. 409 (1993)

“Government Interest and Takings: Cultural Commitments of Property and the Role of Political Theory”, in Public Values in Constitutional Law (Stephen Gottlieb, ed., 1993)

“Evaluating Government Reasons for Changing Property Regimes”, 55 Albany L. Rev. 597 (1992) (transcription of spoken version of earlier draft of above)

“Compensation and Commensurability”, 43 Duke L. J. 56 (1993)

“Reply:  Please Be Careful with Cultural Feminism”, 45 Stan. L. Rev. 1567 (1993) (transcription of spoken commentary)

“Diagnosing the Takings Problem”, in Compensatory Justice (Nomos XXXIII) (J. Chapman ed. 1991)

“On the Domain of Market Rhetoric”, 15 Harv. J. L. & Public Policy 711 (1992), reprinted in E. Jordan & A. Harris, Economic Justice: Race, Gender, Identity and Economics: Cases and Materials (2010)

“Reflections on Objectification”, 65 S. Cal. L. Rev. 341 (1991)

“Pragmatist and Poststructuralist Critical Legal Practice”, 139 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1019 (1991) (with Frank Michelman)

“Presumptive Positivism and Trivial Cases”, 14 Harv. J. Of Law & Public Policy 701 (1991)

“Affirmative Action Rhetoric”, 8 Soc. Phil. & Policy 51 (1991)

“The Pragmatist and the Feminist”, 63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1699 (1990); reprinted in Pragmatism in Law and Society (M. Brint & W. Weaver eds 1991); Feminist Jurisprudence (P. Smith ed 1992); K. Bartlett & D. Rhode, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (5th ed. 2010); C. Bowman et al., Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases & Materials (4th ed. 2011)

“After the Final No There Comes a Yes:  A Law Teacher’s Report”, 2 Yale J. L. & Humanities 253 (1990)

“The Liberal Conception of Property:  Cross Currents in the Jurisprudence of Takings”, 88 Colum. L. Rev. 1667 (1988), reprinted in 21 Land Use & Environment L. Rev. 151 (1990), and in Economics of Constitutional Law (R. Epstein, ed. 2010)

“The Constitution and the Liberal Conception of Property”, in Judging the Constitution (A. Houseman & M. McCann eds. 1989)

“Reconsidering the Rule of Law”, 69 B.U.L. Rev. 781 (1989); reprinted in Wittgenstein and Legal Theory 125 (D. Patterson ed. 1992); Law and Language (F. Schauer ed. 1993); The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers (R. Bellamy, ed.) (Ashgate 2005)

“Justice and the Market Domain”, in Markets and Justice (Nomos XXXI) (J. Pennock & J. Chapman eds 1989)

“Rent Control and Incomplete Commodification: A Rejoinder”, 17 Phil. & Public Affairs 80 (1988)

“Choosing Family Law over Contract Law as a Paradigm for Surrogate Motherhood”, 16 J. Law, Medicine & Health Care 34 (1988) (with A.M. Capron); reprinted in Surrogate Motherhood 59 (L. Gostin ed. 1990)

“Market-Inalienability”, 100 Harv. L. Rev. 1849 (1987); reprinted in part in Rethinking Commodification (M. Ertman & J. Williams eds) (New York University Press 2005); Families and Law: An Adoption Reader (N.R. Cahn & J. H. Hollinger, eds) (New York University Press 2004); FeministJurisprudence 389 (P. Smith ed. 1993); A Property Anthology 398 (R. Chused ed. 1993); Reproductive Technology and Human Values (K. Alpern ed. 1993); Law And Morals (G. Dworkin, ed. 1993); excerpts reprinted in various casebooks on Property Law, on Family Law, on Health Law, and on Legal Methods

“Time, Possession and Alienation”, 64 Wash. U. L. Q. 739 (1986)

“The Consequences of Conceptualism”, 41 Miami L. Rev. 239 (1986)

“Residential Rent Control”, 15 Phil. & Public Affairs 350 (1986)

“Risk-of Error Rules and Non-Ideal Justification”, in Justification in Ethics 33 (Nomos XXVIII) (J. Pennock & J. Chapman eds 1986)

“Proportionality, Subjectivity, and Tragedy”, 18 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1165 (1985)

“Property and Personhood”, 34 Stan. L. Rev. 957 (1982); reprinted in part in Property Law 53 (E. Mensch & A. Freeman eds. 1992); excerpts reprinted in a number of casebooks

“Cruel Punishment and Respect for Persons:  Super Due Process for Death”, 55 S. Cal L. Rev. 1143 (1980)

“The Jurisprudence of Death:  Evolving Standards for the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause”, 126 U. Pa. L. Rev. 989 (1978)

 

Interviews and Op-eds

Interview with Michael Enright, CBC Sunday Morning Edition (April 2013)

Interview, New England Cable News, Morning Edition (May 2013)

Op-Ed, “Legal Boilerplate:  Contract or Blackmail,” Los Angeles Times (Feb. 2013), reprinted in Chicago Tribune and Dallas Morning News [title(s) selected by editors]

Interview (with Professors Litman and Eisenberg) in Michigan Law Quadrangle Notes (2008-9)

An Interview with Margaret Jane Radin, 5 The Hedgehog Review 98 (2003)

Interview with Margaret Jane Radin, in Risk Management Forecast: 2001: Creating Trust in an E-Business World 45, Price Waterhouse Coopers (2001)

"Beyond Price: An Interview with Margaret Jane Radin," Stanford Lawyer 50 (Fall 1996)

 

Book Reviews

Book Review (M. Gulati & R. Scott, The 3-1/2 Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design), 23 The Law and Politics Book Review 302 (2013)

Book Review (J. Boyle, Shamans, Software and Spleens), The Washington Post, Book World (June 30, 1996)

Book Review (R. Berger, Death Penalties), 74 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1115 (1983)