LEADER 07635nam 2201645Ia 450 001 9910823821203321 005 20240527150336.0 010 $a1-283-85891-6 010 $a1-4008-4483-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400844838 035 $a(CKB)2550000000709260 035 $a(EBL)1042902 035 $a(OCoLC)823170142 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000782763 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11442790 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000782763 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10751752 035 $a(PQKB)10041238 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000406980 035 $a(OCoLC)966803232 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54643 035 $a(DE-B1597)474159 035 $a(OCoLC)979578979 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400844838 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1042902 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000709260 100 $a20120425d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBoilerplate $ethe fine print, vanishing rights, and the rule of law /$fMargaret Jane Radin 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (359 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-16335-9 311 $a0-691-15533-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue: World A (Agreement) and World B (Boilerplate) --$tPart I. Boilerplate, Consumers' Rights, and the Rule of Law --$tChapter One. An Overview of Worlds A and B --$tChapter Two. Normative Degradation --$tChapter Three. Democratic Degradation --$tPart II. Boilerplate and Contract Theory: Rationales and Rationalizations --$tChapter Four. A Summary of the Philosophy of Contract --$tChapter Five. Can Autonomy Theory (Agreement, Consent) Justify Boilerplate Deletion of Rights? --$tChapter Six. Can Utilitarian-Welfare (Economic) Theory Justify Boilerplate Deletion of Rights? --$tPart III. Boilerplate and Contract Remedies: Current Judicial Oversight and Possible Improvements --$tChapter Seven. Evaluating Current Judicial Oversight --$tChapter Eight. Can Current Oversight Be Improved? --$tChapter Nine. Improving Evaluation of Boilerplate --$tPart IV. Escaping Contract: Other Remedial Possibilities --$tChapter Ten. "Private" Reform Ideas --$tChapter Eleven. Reconceptualizing (Some) Boilerplate under Tort Law --$tChapter Twelve. "Public" and Hybrid Regulatory Solutions --$tAfterword: What's Next for Boilerplate? --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aBoilerplate--the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click "I agree" online, rent an apartment, enter an employment contract, sign up for a cellphone carrier, or buy travel tickets--pervades all aspects of our modern lives. On a daily basis, most of us accept boilerplate provisions without realizing that should a dispute arise about a purchased good or service, the nonnegotiable boilerplate terms can deprive us of our right to jury trial and relieve providers of responsibility for harm. Boilerplate is the first comprehensive treatment of the problems posed by the increasing use of these terms, demonstrating how their use has degraded traditional notions of consent, agreement, and contract, and sacrificed core rights whose loss threatens the democratic order. Margaret Jane Radin examines attempts to justify the use of boilerplate provisions by claiming either that recipients freely consent to them or that economic efficiency demands them, and she finds these justifications wanting. She argues, moreover, that our courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies have fallen short in their evaluation and oversight of the use of boilerplate clauses. To improve legal evaluation of boilerplate, Radin offers a new analytical framework, one that takes into account the nature of the rights affected, the quality of the recipient's consent, and the extent of the use of these terms. Radin goes on to offer possibilities for new methods of boilerplate evaluation and control, among them the bold suggestion that tort law rather than contract law provides a preferable analysis for some boilerplate schemes. She concludes by discussing positive steps that NGOs, legislators, regulators, courts, and scholars could take to bring about better practices. 606 $aStandardized terms of contract$zUnited States 606 $aUnconscionable contracts$zUnited States 610 $aEuropean Union. 610 $aNGOs. 610 $aOmri Ben-Shahar. 610 $aRobert Hillman. 610 $aagreement. 610 $aassent. 610 $aautomated filtering. 610 $aautonomy theory. 610 $abargained-for exchange. 610 $aboilerplate clauses. 610 $aboilerplate rights. 610 $aboilerplate. 610 $abreach of contract. 610 $acertifications. 610 $achoice. 610 $acoercion. 610 $acomprehensive regulation. 610 $aconditions. 610 $aconsent. 610 $aconsumer pushback. 610 $acontract formation. 610 $acontract law. 610 $acontract philosophy. 610 $acontract remedies. 610 $acontract theory. 610 $acontract-as-product theory. 610 $acontract. 610 $acontractual obligation. 610 $acore rights. 610 $acourts. 610 $ademocratic degradation. 610 $adisclosure. 610 $aeconomic efficiency. 610 $aeconomic loss. 610 $aeconomic rationality. 610 $aeconomic theory. 610 $aevaluation. 610 $afraud. 610 $ahabitability. 610 $aheuristic biases. 610 $ahuman rights. 610 $ahybrid regimes. 610 $aincentives. 610 $ainformation asymmetry. 610 $ainvalid contract formation. 610 $ajudicial oversight. 610 $alawyers. 610 $alegal scholars. 610 $alegislatures. 610 $aliability rules. 610 $amachine bargaining. 610 $amarket solutions. 610 $amarket-inalienability. 610 $anonconsent. 610 $anormative degradation. 610 $apiecemeal adjudication. 610 $apolitical rights. 610 $aprivate law. 610 $aprivate ordering. 610 $aprivate reform. 610 $aprivate sector. 610 $aproblematic consent. 610 $aproperty rules. 610 $apublic ordering. 610 $aradical unexpectedness. 610 $arating agencies. 610 $areasonable expectations. 610 $aregulation. 610 $aregulatory agencies. 610 $areputation. 610 $aresidential leases. 610 $arule of law. 610 $asheer ignorance. 610 $asocial dissemination. 610 $astandardized form contracts. 610 $atechnological protection measures. 610 $aterms. 610 $atort law. 610 $aunconscionability. 610 $avoidness. 610 $avoluntariness. 610 $avoluntary agreement. 610 $awaivers. 610 $awhite lists. 610 $awild-card doctrines. 615 0$aStandardized terms of contract 615 0$aUnconscionable contracts 676 $a346.73022 700 $aRadin$b Margaret Jane$0555468 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823821203321 996 $aBoilerplate$94100600 997 $aUNINA