Episode 152: Replication

We talk with Greg Klass about the use of recent empirical studies to aid in the restatement of the law of consumer contracts - the one-sided, unread "agreements" that are ubiquitous in modern life. The conversation covers the purpose of restatements, the methodology of empirical legal scholarship, and more.

This show’s links:

Greg Klass's faculty profile and writing

Greg Klass, A Critical Assessment of the Empiricism in the Restatement of Consumer Contract Law

Oral Argument 133: Too Many Darn Radio Buttons (guest Jim Gibson)

John Gruber, Apple to Release Software Update to Solve iOS 11 Issue When Typing the Letter "I"

About the ALI's draft Restatement of Consumer Contracts

Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar, and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Searching for the Common Law: The Quantitative Approach of the Restatement of Consumer Contracts

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Does Contract Disclosure Matter?; Yannis Bakos, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, David Trossen, Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Consumer Attention to Standard Form Contracts

Arthur Leff, Contract as Thing

William Baude, Adam Chilton, and Anup Malani, Making Doctrinal Work More Rigorous: Lessons from Systematic Reviews

Gregory Klass and Kathryn Zeiler, Against Endowment Theory: Experimental Economics and Legal Scholarship

Special Guest: Greg Klass.