Admiralty: Jurisdiction: Quasi-Contractual Remedy

Quasi-Contractual Obligations

Contractual Traps

In numerous economic scenarios, contracting parties may not have a clear picture of all the relevant aspects. While confronted with these unawareness issues, the strategic decisions of the contracting parties critically depend on their sophistication. A contracting party may be unaware of what she is entitled to determine. Therefore, she can only infer some missing pieces via the contract offer...

Jurisdiction over E Commerce

Expansion of business onto the Internet crosses national borders and creates uncertainty as to the propriety of jurisdiction by the courts of nations and their internal political units. Analysis of jurisdiction in United States law reveals that traditional rules provide guidance for resolving the question of constitutional jurisdiction in cases that cross geopolitical lines.

Contractual Chains

This paper examines a model in which individuals contract with one another along the branches of a fixed network and then select verifiable productive actions with externally enforced transfers. Special cases of the model include most settings of contracting with externalities that have been studied in the literature. The model allows for a type of externality that the previous literature has n...

Contractual Anonymity

We propose, develop, and implement techniques for achieving contractual anonymity. In contractual anonymity, a user and service provider enter into an anonymity contract. The user is guaranteed anonymity and message unlinkability from the contractual anonymity system unless she breaks the contract. The service provider is guaranteed that it can identify users who break the contract. The signifi...