Dec. 11, 2024

Professor Boyack’s work reviewed in blogs

Professor Andrea Boyack had two of her forthcoming articles reviewed in law blogs in recent weeks: Her forthcoming article, “Abuse of Contract: Boilerplate Erasure of Consumer Counterparty Rights” was blogged about on ContractsProf Blog here: https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2024/06/teaching-assistants-andrea-boyack-on-abuse-of-contract.html Her forthcoming article, “Just Consumer Financial Protection: Prevention or Cure” was profiled by NC Bankruptcy Expert here: https://ncbankruptcyexpert.com/2024/11/22/law-review-boyack-andrea-j-just-consumer-financial-protection-prevention-or-cure-august…

Dec. 6, 2024

Professor Boyack’s research featured on podcast

Professor Andrea Boyack was recently a guest on a podcast discussing her forthcoming article, “Abuse of Contract: Boilerplate Erasure of Consumer Counterparty Rights.” The Consumer Finance Monitor podcast episode examines Professor Boyack’s research and discusses two separate consumer contract initiatives. To listen to the episode, visit: https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/blogs/2024/11/podcast-an-empirical-study-of-boilerplate-in-consumer-contracts…

June 25, 2024

Professor Boyack to publish article on abuse of boilerplates in contracts

Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Endowed Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, recently had an article, “Abuse of Contract: Boilerplate Erasure of Consumer Counterparty Rights,” accepted in the Iowa Law Review. In her article, Professor Boyack examines the potential abuse of contracts through boilerplate design as well as suggests how data from a recent study of companies’ online terms and conditions can assist advocates in more effectively protecting and empowering consumers. To read the full article, visit:…

June 20, 2024

Professor Andrea Boyack develops a new framework for consumer contracts in Denver Law Review article

Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, recently published a new piece, “The Shape of Consumer Contracts,” in the Denver Law Review. In her article, Professor Boyack presents a new approach to consumer contract law that she argues would “treat a consumer’s choice to do business with a company as legally distinct from assent to that company’s online terms.” In a piece about her new article in Bloomberg Law, Professor Boyack wrote, “Companies have long claimed that their online boilerplates must be afforded contractual status, or else the world of commerce would be…

June 17, 2024

Professor Andrea Boyack Quoted in New York Times

Professor Andrea Boyack was quoted in a New York Times article regarding “zombie mortgages.” To read the full story, visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/realestate/zombie-second-mortgage-inflation-rates.html.

March 14, 2024

Professor Andrea Boyack Publishes Article in JOTWELL

Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Endowed Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, published an article in the prestigious JOTWELL blog examining recent scholarly work related revisiting single-family zoning and property rights. To read the full article, visit: https://property.jotwell.com/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-a-reconsideration-of-single-family-zoning/. 

Feb. 20, 2024

Professor Boyack Publishes Article in Attorney at Law Magazine

Professor Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Professor of Law at Mizzou Law published an article in Attorney at Law Magazine where she discussed a new plan to change consumer contract law. Read the full article here: https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/legal/opinion/the-need-to-reshape-consumer-contract-law.

Jan. 4, 2024

Prof. Boyack Discusses New Consumer Contracts Paper on Podcast

Professor Andrea Boyack discussed her forthcoming paper outlying a new framework for consumer contracts with the Ballard Spahr Consumer Finance Monitor podcast: https://www.ballardspahr.com/Insights/Blogs/2024/01/Podcast-A-Look-at-a-New-Approach-to-Consumer-Contracts.  

Jan. 3, 2024

Prof. Andrea Boyack writes in Bloomberg Law about her forthcoming publication

In a newly published piece in Bloomberg Law, Mizzou Law’s Andrea Boyack suggests a new framework for consumer contracts that prioritizes consumers’ agency over a blind agreement to a company’s boilerplate terms. “Companies have long claimed that their online boilerplates must be afforded contractual status, or else the world of commerce would be thrown into chaos. This is absurd. In the context of business-to-business transactions, the law rejects the need to adopt one party’s standard form as the parties’ contract.” To read the full piece, visit: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/consumer-contracts-must-be-based-on-real-agreement-not-clicks

Nov. 27, 2023

MU law professor pushes to redefine modern contracts, advocate for consumer protections

By Courtney Perrett, Show Me Mizzou Whether you’re subscribing to a dating app, getting a gym membership, visiting a website or purchasing a product, you’re probably entering into a consumer contract. As widely used as these agreements are, people rarely read, understand, or know the content of them. Although there are some government regulations, contract law generally treats online “terms as conditions” to be binding contracts for people who agree to buy, subscribe, borrower, join, or download. In her forthcoming article, The Shape of Consumer Contracts, Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Endowed Professor of Law, says that people’s…