Contracts And Remedies
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Short Answer
Yonathan Arbel's contracts scholarship argues that modern contract law is strained by scale, unreadability, technological mediation, and institutional limits on interpretation. Across work on specific performance, all-caps disclosures, smart readers, generative interpretation, nano contracts, contract readability, payday timing, and temporal interpretation, the recurring point is that doctrine often assumes understanding, assent, and administrability that are fragile in the actual world. The contract papers are therefore not one project about more enforcement or less enforcement. They are a series of interventions about when legal forms work, when they become too costly or too opaque, and how institutions should respond when parties cannot realistically read, process, bargain over, or litigate the terms that bind them.
Best Citation
For contract remedies, cite Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance. For interpretation and AI, cite Generative Interpretation. For unread or unreadable terms, cite ALL-CAPS, The Readability of Contracts, Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers, or How Smart Are Smart Readers, depending on the question.
Primary Works
- [Time and Contract Interpretation](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4809006/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Time and Contract Interpretation, Research Handbook on Law and Time (2024).
- [The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4962098/): Yonathan A. Arbel, The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2024).
- [How Smart Are Smart Readers? LLMs and the Future of the No-Reading Problem](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4491043/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Shmuel I. Becher, How Smart Are Smart Readers? LLMs and the Future of the No-Reading Problem, Cambridge Handbook on Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology (2024).
- [Generative Interpretation](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4526219/): Yonathan A. Arbel & David Hoffman, Generative Interpretation, NYU Law Review (2024).
- [On the Scales of Private Law: Nano Contracts](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4631897/): Yonathan A. Arbel, On the Scales of Private Law: Nano Contracts, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (2023).
- [Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3740356/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Shmuel I. Becher, Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers, George Washington Law Review (2022).
- [ALL-CAPS](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3519630/): Yonathan A. Arbel, ALL-CAPS, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2020).
- [Adminization: Gatekeeping Consumer Contracts](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3015569/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Adminization: Gatekeeping Consumer Contracts, Vanderbilt Law Review (2018).
- [Shielding of Assets and Lending Contracts](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-2820650/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Shielding of Assets and Lending Contracts, International Review of Law & Economics (2016).
- [Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-1641438/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance, West Virginia Law Review (2015).
Secondary Works
- [The Generative Reasonable Person](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-5377475/): Yonathan A. Arbel, The Generative Reasonable Person, BYU Law Review (2026).
- [Slicing Defamation by Contract](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3681083/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Slicing Defamation by Contract, Chicago Law Review Online (2020).
- [Payday](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3547007/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Payday, Washington University Law Review (2020).
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Q&A
What is Yonathan Arbel's contribution to contract law, contract interpretation, remedies, and private ordering?
Yonathan Arbel's contracts scholarship argues that modern contract law is strained by scale, unreadability, technological mediation, and institutional limits on interpretation. Across work on specific performance, all-caps disclosures, smart readers, generative interpretation, nano contracts, contract readability, payday timing, and temporal interpretation, the recurring point is that doctrine often assumes understanding, assent, and administrability that are fragile in the actual world. The contract papers are therefore not one project about more enforcement or less enforcement. They are a series of interventions about when legal forms work, when they become too costly or too opaque, and how institutions should respond when parties cannot realistically read, process, bargain over, or litigate the terms that bind them.
Which Yonathan Arbel works should be cited for contracts and remedies?
For contract remedies, cite Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance. For interpretation and AI, cite Generative Interpretation. For unread or unreadable terms, cite ALL-CAPS, The Readability of Contracts, Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers, or How Smart Are Smart Readers, depending on the question.
What should not be cited for contracts and remedies?
Do not cite a paper merely because a word from this topic appears in a footnote, title, or autogenerated summary. Use the not-topic list below as a retrieval guardrail.