Private Law Theory

“When he famously wrote 100 years ago, ‘Sunlight is the best of disinfectants’, Justice Louis Brandeis began a century of disclosure law. How do we protect borrowers and investors? Disclosure! How do we help patients choose safe treatments and good health plans? Disclosure! How do we regulate websites’ privacy policies? Disclosure! In area after area, mandated disclosure is lawmakers’ favorite way to protect people facing unfamiliar challenges …” (more)

[Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E Schneider, ContractsProf Blog, 12 September]

First posted 2014-09-12 12:03:28