Margaret Jane Radin

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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University of Michigan Law School

Henry King Ransom Professor of Law

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The Subject and Object of Commodification

UC Davis Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16; Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 97
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Sep 2004
Margaret Jane Radin and Madhavi Sunder
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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Commodification, property, intellectual property, markets, law and economics, law and culture, cultural studies, information studies

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Regulation by Contract, Regulation by Machine

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Apr 2004
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Pseudo-Contract & Shared Meaning Analysis

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 132, 2019
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 25 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2018
Robin Bradley Kar and Margaret Jane Radin
University of Illinois College of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Boilerplate, Pseudo-Contract, Arbitration, Grice, Contract, Interpretation, Objective Theory, Cooperation, Market, Paradigm Slip, Clickwrap, Online, Contract of Adhesion, Speaker Meaning, Sentence Meaning, Shared Meaning, ISDA, Pari Passu, High-End Boilerplate, Deception, Consumer

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The Myth of Private Ordering: Rediscovering Legal Realism in Cyberspace

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The Myth of Private Ordering: Rediscovering Legal Realism in Cyberspace

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 May 1999
Margaret Jane Radin and R. Polk Wagner
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School
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The Myth of Private Ordering: Rediscovering Legal Realism in Cyberspace

Chicago-Kent Law Review
Posted: 09 Jun 1999
Margaret Jane Radin and R. Polk Wagner
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School

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Information Tangibility

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Dec 2002
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Pseudo-Contract and Shared Meaning Analysis

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 132, No. 4, p. 1135 (2019)
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 20 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2019
Robin Bradley Kar and Margaret Jane Radin
University of Illinois College of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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boilerplate, pseudo-contract, arbitration, grice, contract, interpretation, objective theory, cooperation, market, paradigm slip, clickwrap, online, contract of adhesion, speaker meaning, sentence meaning, shared meaning, ISDA, pari passu, high-end boilerplate, deception, consumer

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The Deformation of Contract in the Information Society

Forthcoming in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies vol 37, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-034
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2017
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Information society, contract theory, contract doctrine, core contracts, boilerplate, transactional disclosures, epicycles, legal infrastructure, digital networked environment, theory to practice ‘fit’, normative degradation, democratic degradation, rule of law

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Boilerplate: A Threat to the Rule of Law?

Lisa M. Austin and Dennis Klimchuk, eds, PRIVATE LAW AND THE RULE OF LAW (OUP, 2014 Forthcoming), U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 365
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2013
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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contracts, boilerplate, fine print, rights deletion, waiver, rule of law, legal remedies, arbitrary power, equality before the law, quasi-anarchy, market-inalienability, public/private distinction

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Regime Change in Intellectual Property: Superseding the Law of the State with the 'Law' of the Firm

University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal, Vol. 1, p. 173, 2003-2004, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 91
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Apr 2004
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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An Analytical Framework for Legal Evaluation of Boilerplate

Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law, edited by G. Lestas, P. Saprai, and G. Klass. Oxford University Press, 2014, Forthcoming, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 338
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2013
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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contract, law, legal framework, boilerplate

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Response: Boilerplate in Theory and Practice

Published in: Canadian Business Law Journal 54, No. 2 (2013): 292-306, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 434, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 15-005
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2015
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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boilerplate, fine print, contract, rule of law

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Patent Notice and the Trouble with Plain Meaning

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 96, pp.1093-1116, Forthcoming, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 Jun 2016
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Patent, Claims, Interpretation, Notice

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What Boilerplate Said: A Response to Omri Ben-Shahar (and a Diagnosis)

U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 392, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-006
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2014
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Less Than I Wanted To Know: Why Do Ben-Shahar and Schneider Attack Only 'Mandated' Disclosure?

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies (2014, Forthcoming), U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2014
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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disclosure, contracts

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The Fiduciary State and Private Ordering

Paul B. Miller and Andrew S. Gold, eds., Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law, Oxford, 2016, Forthcoming, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 500
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 25 May 2017
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Of Priors and of Disconnects: How 'Chicago' Premises Risk Distortion

Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 127, p. 259, 2014, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-014, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 414
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 May 2014 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2014
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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From Babyselling to Boilerplate: Reflections on the Limits of the Infrastructures of the Market

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 54(2), Forthcoming , Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 28/2017, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-031, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 530
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 24 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Commodification, Personhood, Market-Inalienability, Baby-Selling, Boilerplate, Rule of Law, Redress of Grievances, Property, Contract

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Access to Justice and Abuses of Contract

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2016, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 501
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 25 May 2017
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Compendium of Key Terms Used in Pseudo-Contract & Shared Meaning Analysis

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 27 Feb 2018
Robin Bradley Kar and Margaret Jane Radin
University of Illinois College of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Rhetorical Capture

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 54, 2012
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 06 Nov 2013
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Copyright Defection

Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 15, Issue 6, pp. 981-993, 2006
Posted: 04 Apr 2008
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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Humans, Computers, and Binding Commitment

Posted: 21 Jul 2000
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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Reconsidering 'Whiteness as Property': Bad Property for Personhood and Affirmative Action Rhetoric

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 16 Jan 2016
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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property, personhood, affirmative action, critical legal studies, critical race theory, rhetorical capture