Learn about contracts from Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, one of the world's leading authorities on contract law. Contracts are promises that the law will enforce. But when will the law refuse ...

Mechanic's liens are a basic security right created by either constitutional or statutory law. They do not exist as a matter of equity or common law, but are instead legislative creatures.

Last Wednesday was the first day of the inaugural New York Arbitration Week. The day's headliner was a half-day program on the new American Law Institute's Restatement of the U.S. Law of International ...