Nancy S. Kim

Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology

565 W. Adams St.

Chicago, IL 60661-3691

United States

http://https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/

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Scholarly Papers (42)

1.

Shorting Innovation

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Sep 2024
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 1,127 (41,976)

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2.

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
Downloads 794 (68,128)

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Contracts, Contract Law

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Mistakes, Changed Circumstances and Intent

Kansas Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 625 (92,817)
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mistakes, unilateral mistake, mutual mistake, contracts, changed circumstances, contract defenses, impossibility, commercial impracticability, contractual intent, dynamic

4.

Wrap Contracts: Foundations and Ramifications

Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 576 (103,066)

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clickwrap, shrinkwrap, browsewrap, electronic contract, contract, agreement

5.

The Software Licensing Dilemma

Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2008, October 2008
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 568 (104,872)

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contracts, commercial law, software, licenses, intellectual property, shrinkwraps, clickwraps, browsewraps, consumer law, first sale, licensing

6.

Internet Challenges to Business Innovation

Journal of Internet Law, Vol. 12, No. 3, August 2008
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 29 Aug 2008
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 443 (141,999)

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business innovation, entrepreneur, clickwrap agreement, contracts, licensing, Internet

7.

Consentability: Consent and Its Limits (Introduction)

Cambridge University Press (2019), California Western School of Law Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 May 2019
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 442 (142,348)

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Consent, Contractual Consent, #MeToo, Commodification, Ethics

8.

Website Proprietorship and Online Harassment

Utah Law Review, 2009
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 10 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 372 (173,176)

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Imposing Tort Liability on Websites for Cyberharassment

Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, Vol. 118, p. 115, 2008
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 18 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 359 (180,149)

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internet, tort, defamation, cyberlaw, Communications Decency Act, cyberharassment, cyberbullying, Section 230

10.

Clicking and Cringing

Oregon Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 3, 2007
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 02 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 325 (200,629)
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Contracts, licensing, shrinkwrap, clickwraps, intellectual property, browsewraps, terms of use, software, assent, contract formation

11.

New Developments in Digital and Wrap Contracts (2019-2020)

The Business Lawyer, Vol. 76, Winter 2020-21
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Feb 2021
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 300 (218,768)

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digital contracts, contracts, internet contracts, wrap contracts, clickwrap, browsewrap, modified wrap, hybridwrap, electronic contracting

12.

Exploitation by Wrap Contracts -- Click 'Agree'

California Bar IP Journal, New Matter, Vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 10-17 (2014)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 02 Jul 2014
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 298 (220,320)
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Internet Giants as Quasi-Governmental Actors and the Limits of Contractual Consent

80 Missouri Law Review 723 (2015), Valparaiso University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-3, California Western School of Law Research Paper No. 15-01
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2016
Nancy S. Kim and D. A. Jeremy Telman
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology and Oklahoma City University School of Law
Downloads 291 (225,933)
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privacy, contract, wrap contracts, consent, Internet, cyberlaw, consumer

14.

The Duty to Draft Reasonably and Online Contracts

Chapter 8, in COMMERCIAL CONTRACT LAW: A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE (eds. Larry DiMatteo, Keith Rowley, Severine Saintier, and George Zhou) (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 265 (248,728)

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electronic contracting, contract design, clickwrap, browsewrap, online agreements, consumer contracts

15.

Wrap Contracting and the Online Environment: Causes and Cures

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LAW (ed. John A. Rothchild, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016, Forthcoming), California Western School of Law Research Paper No. 15-08
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 256 (257,604)

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wrap contract, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, ProCD, electronic contract, ecommerce, consumer contracts

16.

Online Contracting: New Developments

The Business Lawyer 72:243 (Winter 2016-2017), California Western School of Law Research Paper No. 17-5
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 04 Feb 2017
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 212 (309,628)

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wrap contracts, online contracts, clickwrap, browsewrap, shrinkwrap, ecommerce, consumer, contracts

17.

The Wrap Contract Morass

Southwestern University Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, p. 309, 2014
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 May 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 206 (318,126)

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contracts, consumer, standard form contracts, adhesive contracts, online contracts, electronic contracting, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, wrap contracts, unconscionability, internet commerce, technology and the law

18.

Beyond Section 230 Liability for Facebook

St. John's Law Review , Vol. 96, No. 2, 2022
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Oct 2022
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 201 (325,507)

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social media, platform liability, Section 230, contracts, tort, product liability, Facebook, Meta Platforms, Meta

19.

'Wrap Contracts and Privacy

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press Technical Report SS-10-05, 2010
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 29 Mar 2010
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 201 (325,507)

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Online Agreements, Contracts, Shrinkwrap, Browsewrap, Clickwrap, Privacy, Internet

20.

Blameworthiness, Intent and Cultural Dissonance: The Unequal Treatment of Cultural Defense Defendants

Florida Journal Law & Public Policy, Vol. 17, p. 199, 2006
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 195 (334,853)

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21.

Relative Consent and Contract Law

18 Nevada Law Journal165 (2017), California Western School of Law Research Paper No. 18-5
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 Feb 2018
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 183 (354,954)
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consent, contract, contract law, contract theory, contract doctrine

22.

Revisiting the License v. Sale Conundrum

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 101, 2020
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 Mar 2021
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 177 (365,474)

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licensing, license, copyright, first sale, patent exhaustion, wrap contracts, Lexmark

23.

Martha Graham, Professor Miller and the Work for Hire Doctrine: Undoing the Judicial Bind Created by the Legislature

Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 13, p. 337, 2006
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Aug 2005
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 177 (365,474)

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Work for hire, copyright, expectations of the parties

24.

Two Alternate Visions of Contract Law in 2025

52 Duquesne University Law Review 303 (2014)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Jul 2014
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 176 (367,394)
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digital contracts, electronic contracts, contracts, wrap contracts, ecommerce, internet, adhesion, unconscionability

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Evolving Business and Social Norms and Interpretation Rules: The Need for a Dynamic Approach to Contract Disputes

Nebraska Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 506, 2005
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 06 May 2005 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 174 (371,158)
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26.

The Faulty Foundation of the Draft Restatement of Consumer Contracts

36 Yale Journal on Regulation 447 (2019), Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-03, California Western School of Law Research Paper No. 19-3
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Feb 2019
Georgetown University Law Center, Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, University of Houston Law Center, Boston College Law School, Widener University - Commonwealth Law School, National Consumer Law Center and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Downloads 168 (382,775)
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27.

Ideology, Coercion, and the Proposed Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts

Loyola Consumer Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 May 2020 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2020
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 158 (403,604)

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consumer contracts, Restatement of Consumer Contracts, contract law, clickwrap, browsewrap, electronic contracts, digital contracts, contracts of adhesion, standard form contracts

28.

Website Design and Liability

Jurimetrics, Vol. 52, No. 383-431, 2012
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 154 (412,485)

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Communications Decency Act, cyber harassment, Section 230, online speech, website liability

29.

Contract’s Adaptation and the Online Bargain

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 79, 2011
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2025
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 152 (417,003)

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Contract and Commercial Law Challenges with AI Products and Services

THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF EMERGING ISSUES AT THE INTERSECTION OF COMMERCIAL LAW AND TECHNOLOGY (Stacy-Ann Elvy and Nancy S. Kim, eds.) (forthcoming 2024)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2024
Nancy S. Kim and Lance Fortnow
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology and Illinois Institute of Technology - Department of Computer Science
Downloads 148 (426,140)

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artificial intelligence, terms of service, TOS, contract law, products liability

31.

Situational Duress and the Aberrance of Electronic Contracts

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 1, p. 265 (2014)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Feb 2014
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 147 (428,521)

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electronic contracts, wrap contracts, clickwrap, browsewrap, ProCD, duress, situational duress, aberrant contracts

32.

Online Contracts

The Business Lawyer, Vol 78, Winter 2022-2023
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Mar 2023
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 142 (440,685)

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online contracts, wrap contracts, TOS, terms of service, digital contracts, consumer contracts

33.

Digital Contracts (June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2019)

75 THE BUSINESS LAWYER 1683 (Winter 2019-2020)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Mar 2020
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 142 (440,685)

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wrap contracts, digital contract, electronic contracts of adhesion, clickwrap, browsewrap, contracts, internet contracts

34.

Adhesive Terms and Reasonable Notice

Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 19 Dec 2022
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 139 (448,229)

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clickwrap, shrinkwrap, browsewrap, wrap contracts, adhesive contracts, adhesive terms, standard form contracts, unconscionability, terms of service, terms of use

35.

Expanding the Scope of the Principles of the Law of Software Contracts to Include Digital Content

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 1595, 2010
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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36.

Reasonable Expectations in Socio-Cultural Context

Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 May 2010 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 107 (548,946)

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Notice and Assent Through Technological Change: The Enduring Relevance of the Work of the ABA Joint Working Group on Electronic Contracting Practices

The Business Lawyer; Vol. 75, Spring 2020
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Apr 2020
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School, Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 104 (560,653)

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contracts, electronic contracts, electronic commerce, cyberspace law

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Arbitration's Summer Soldiers Marching into Fall: Another Look at Eisenberg, Miller and Sherwin's Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts

Vermont Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2015
Nancy S. Kim and Chii-Dean Lin
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology and San Diego State University
Downloads 99 (580,568)

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Contracts, Arbitration, Form Contracts, 2-207, Uniform Commercial Code, Commercial Law, Sales, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Commercial Contracts, International Business Law

39.

Bargaining Power and Background Law

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Dec 2009
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 98 (584,401)

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contracts, copyright, bargaining power, work for hire, software, background law

40.

Author Response to Symposium: What Does it Mean to Consent?

Loyola Law Review, New Orleans, Vol. 66, No. 1, Spring 2020
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2020
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 84 (643,381)

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consent, consentability autonomy, individual liberty, Harm Principle

41.

Boilerplate and Consent

17 Green Bag 293 (Spring 2014)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Oct 2020
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 32 (1,013,571)

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consent, boilerplate, wrap contracts, fine print

42.

An Arrangement of Arbitration Weeds

The Green Bag Almanac & Reader, Winter 2022
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Mar 2023
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
Downloads 25 (1,094,021)

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arbitration, terms of service, wrap contracts, online contracts, digital contracts, TOS, arbitration clauses