Cathy Hwang and Justin Weinstein-Tull, ‘Contract Law and Civil Justice in Local Courts’, 2026 Wisconsin Law Review 1 (2026). Law students study landmark contract law cases; scholars write law review articles on contract law precedents and influential judicial decisions (typically from states’ appellate and supreme courts); and the media covers high-profile, high-value contracts and high-stakes contract disputes between sophisticated parties. However, according to ‘Contract Law and Civil Justice in Local Courts’, these represent exceptional examples. The majority of contract disputes (over eighty percent) are adjudicated in local courts. In this fascinating article, Cathy Hwang and Justin Weinstein-Tull examine this understudied domain, shifting the attention from the extraordinary to the mundane. … (more)
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