Vol. 104, No. 5 PDF March 2006
CONTENTS
“BOILERPLATE”:
FOUNDATIONS OF MARKET CONTRACTS
SYMPOSIUM
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Omri Ben-Shahar   821
PANEL ONE: BOILERPLATE IN CONSUMER CONTRACT
One-Sided Contracts in Competitive
Consumer Markets. . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucian A. Bebchuk
Richard A. Posner
  827
Online Boilerplate: Would Mandatory
Website Disclosure of E-Standard
Terms Backfire? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert A. Hillman  837
The Return of Bargain: An Economic Theory
of How Standard-Form Contracts Enable
Cooperative Negotiation between
Businesses and Consumers . . . . Jason Scott Johnston  857
"Contracting" for Credit. . . . . . . . . . . Ronald J. Mann  899
PANEL TWO: BOILERPLATE AND MARKET POWER
The Boilerplate Puzzle . . . . . . . . Douglas G. Baird  933
Boilerplate and Economic Power in
Auto Manufacturing Contracts. . . . . . Omri Ben-Shahar
James J. White
 953
The Hidden Roles of Boilerplate and
Standard-Form Contracts: Strategic Imposition of
Transaction Costs, Segmentation of Consumers,
and Anticompetitive Effects . . . . . . . . . . . David Gilo
Ariel Porat
 983
PANEL THREE: PRODUCTION OF BOILERPLATE
The Strategy of Boilerplate . . . . . . Robert B. Ahdieh  1033
The Role of Nonprofits in the Production
of Boilerplate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin E. Davis  1075
PANEL FOUR: BOILERPLATE VERSUS CONTRACT
Contra Proferentem: The Allure of
Ambiguous Boilerplate. . . . . . . . . . Michelle E. Boardman  1105
Contract as Statute . . . . . . . . . . . Stephen J. Choi
G. Mitu Gulati
 1129
Modularity in Contracts: Boilerplate and
Information Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry E. Smith  1175
COMMENTARIES
Boilerplate Today: The Rise
of Modularity and the Waning
of Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margaret Jane Radin  1223
The Law and Sociology of Boilerplate . . . Todd D. Rakoff  1235