Theresa Arnold, Amanda Gray Dixon, Hadar Tanne, Madison Sherrill and G Mitu Gulati, ‘“Lipstick on a Pig”: Specific Performance Clauses in Action’, Wisconsin Law Review (forthcoming, 2020), available at SSRN. ‘“Lipstick on a Pig”: Specific Performance Clauses in Action’, forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review, is a good example of how to pack a deep insight into a short essay. The authors – Theresa Arnold, Amanda Dixon, Hadar Tanne, Madison Sherrill and Mitu Gulati – have made a real contribution. That they were able to do so about an old topic – damages or injunctions in contract law – illustrates the continuing value of the Wisconsin-school tradition of looking at real contracts to teach us something about the state of doctrine. As readers will be well-aware, we teach specific performance as a disfavored remedy, available rarely outside of the unique goods and real estate contexts … (more)
[David Hoffman, JOTWELL, 21 April]
First posted 2021-04-22 12:15:56
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