Private Law Theory

Josh Mitts, I Promise to Pay, available at SSRN. What is the point of signing on the dotted line? In days of yore (ie, before the E-Signature Act), signing your name with a pen was thought to caution, evidence, and channel promissory behavior. But of late, the dotted line has gotten a bad rap. In April 2018, one of the last domains of contractually-related autographs – credit cards – gave up the ghost. It seems likely that the next generation of contracting parties will never sign a physical contract. Sic transit gloria Montblanc …” (more)

[David Hoffman, JOTWELL, 24 September]

First posted 2018-09-24 12:00:03