Private Law Theory

“Shawn Bayern presented his work in progress on Meta-contextualist Contract Interpretation. Although Professor Bayern began by suggesting that, non-withstanding his previous presentations at this conference in which he denounced formalism and defended contextualist approaches, he really thinks that if asked in any given context, which interpretive regime should apply to a particular transaction, his answer is, ‘it depends’. In short, the answer to the question of textualism vs. contextualism is contextual …” (more)

[Jeremy Telman, ContractsProf Blog, 21 February]

First posted 2014-02-22 08:53:24