Hila Keren

Southwestern Law School

Professor Hila Keren

3050 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90010

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (22)

1.

The Best and Worst of Contracts Decisions: An Anthology

45 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 889-1022 (2018)., California Western School of Law Research Paper No. 19-2, Southwestern Law School Research Paper No. 2019/04, Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 19-08
Number of pages: 134 Posted: 13 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2019
Michigan State University College of Law, Gonzaga University School of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Ohio State University - Moritz College of Law, Marquette University - Law School, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Southwestern Law School, University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law, Barry University School of Law, Touro University - Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, South Texas College of Law Houston, University of Florida Levin College of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology, William & Mary Law School, South Texas College of Law Houston and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Contracts, Contract Law

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Consenting Under Stress

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 64, No. 3, 2013
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 27 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 05 May 2015
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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contracts, duress, stress, science

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Who's Afraid of Law and the Emotions?

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 6, 2010
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 May 2014
Kathryn R. Abrams and Hila Keren
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Southwestern Law School
Downloads 300 (206,948)
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Law and the Emotions, Law and Economics, Rationality, Behavioral Law and Economics, Neurosciences

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'We Insist! Freedom Now' Does Contract Doctrine Have Anything Constitutional to Say

Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 30 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 05 May 2015
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
Downloads 242 (257,438)
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contract law, constitutional law, discrimination, freedom to contract, race, law and economics, no-retraction principle

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Textual Harassment: A New Historicist Reappraisal of the Parol Evidence With Gender in Mind

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 10 Oct 2004
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
Downloads 227 (273,741)
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Law, contracts, interpretation, parol evidence rule, new historicism, gender, feminism

6.

Separating Church and Market: The Duty to Secure Market Citizenship for All

12 UC Irvine Law Review, 909 (2022)
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 23 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2022
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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market discrimination, LGBTQ, Law & Political Economy, Corporate Law, Contract Law, Law and Emotions

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303 Creative v Elenis: What's Wrong with Preemptive Litigation of Discrimination

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 May 2023 Last Revised: 16 May 2023
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Textual Harassment: A New Historicist Reappraisal of the Parol Evidence Rule on its Four Hundredth Anniversary

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 13 Sep 2004
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Law, contracts, interpretation, parol evidence rule, new historicism, gender, feminism

9.

Market Humiliation

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2023
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 06 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
Downloads 165 (366,405)
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market, inclusion, private law, contract law, discrimination, emotions, litigation, evidence, law & political economy, vulnerability theory

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Valuing Emotions

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 5, 2018, Southwestern Law School Research Paper No. 2019/02
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Feb 2019
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Emotions, Neoliberalism, Contracts

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Guilt-Free Markets? Unconscionability, Conscience, and Emotions

Brigham Young University Law Review, Forthcoming, Southwestern Law School Research Paper No. 2015-05
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2016
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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contracts, morality, emotions, exploitation, self-restraint, payday loans

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Considering Affective Consideration: Toward a Conscious Enforcement of (Some) Gratuitous Promises

Golden Gate University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 30 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 05 May 2015
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Contracts, Emotions, Gift, Empathy, Gratitude, Promises, Enforceability

13.

Undermining Justice: The Two Rises of Freedom of Contract and the Fall of Equity

Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law (2016), Southwestern Law School Research Paper No. 2016-8
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 03 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2016
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Neoliberalism, Justice Scalia, Arbitration, Freedom of Contract, Rhetoric, Equity

14.

Law in the Cultivation of Hope

California Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2007
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 May 2014
Kathryn R. Abrams and Hila Keren
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Southwestern Law School
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Law, Emotions, Hope, Solidarity, Education

15.

The Unbearable Narrowness of Undue Influence

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONTRACT LAW (Mindy Chen-Wishart & Prince Saprai Eds.)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Nov 2023
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Undue Influence; Manipulation, Power Gaps, Dark Patterns, Feminist Legal Theory, Vulnerability Theory

16.

Women in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and Feminism in a Neoliberal Age

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2016, Southwestern Law School Research Paper No. 2019/03
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 Feb 2019
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Feminism, Gender, Neoliberalism, Entrepreneurship, Law, Television, Discourse

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DUE CARE IN A CONSERVATIVE COURT

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 26 Aug 2024
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Supreme Court, Gender-Affirming Care, Skrmetti, Due Process Clause, Parental Rights, Equal Protection Clause, Bostock, LGBTQ+ Rights

18.

Beyond Discrimination: Market Humiliation and Private Law

95 University of Colorado Law Review 87 (2024)
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 03 May 2023 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2024
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Discrimination, Humiliation, 303 Creative v Elenis, Race, LGBTQ+ Rights, Private Law, Contracts, Tort Law, Law and Emotions

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Divided and Conquered: The Neoliberal Roots and Emotional Consequences of the Arbitration Revolution

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Oct 2019
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
Downloads 91 (574,221)
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Arbitration, Neoliberalism, Emotions, Supreme Court, Powerlessness, Collective Actions, Federalist Society, contra proferentem, Lamps Plus, Koch Brothers, James Buchanan

20.

Law and Economic Exploitation in an Anti-Classification Age

Florida State University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 09 May 2014
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School
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Contracts, Expoitation, Predatory Lending, Fair Housing, Reverse Redlining, Unconscionability, Equal Protection, Discrimination

21.

Market Citizenship, Resilience Drainage, and the Role of Private Law

Law, Vulnerability, and the Responsive State: Beyond Equality and Liberty (Martha Albertson Fineman & Laura Spitz eds.)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Dec 2023
Hila Keren and Ronit Donyets-Kedar
Southwestern Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Private Law, Contract Law, Corporate Law, Resilience, Exploitation, Vulnerability Theory

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Feminism and Contract Law

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE (Elgar, Robin West & Cynthia Bowman Eds.)
Posted: 23 Oct 2018
Hila Keren
Southwestern Law School

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Feminism, Contract, Consent, Objectivity, Equality, Interpretation, Emotions