Monday, April 15, 2013

The "Boilerplate 2.0" conference, organized by the Faculty of Law's Centre for Innovation Law and Policy on April 1, 2013, has been featured in an article in The Lawyers Weekly ("Boilerplate language does not render people legally bulletproof," April 19, 2013).

The article quotes guest speaker and author, Margaret Radin, who was a Distinguished Visitor at the Faculty of Law this year, as well as Profs. Peter Benson and Catherine Valcke, who also spoke at the conference.

The article details in some depth Prof. Benson's discussion of Prof. Radin's concerns about boilerplate contracts, including his point:

“You can’t contradict within the contract the apparent intention of the parties,” Benson said, which in essence means that standard form contract terms “are unenforceable if they become unreasonable.”

Read the full article The Lawyers Weekly website.

Find out more about the conference.