Matthew Jennejohn

Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School

Professor of Law

436 JRCB

Brigham Young University

Provo, UT 84602

United States

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COVID-19 as a Force Majeure in Corporate Transactions

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 625, BYU Law Research Paper No. 21-10
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2021
Matthew Jennejohn, Julian Nyarko and Eric L. Talley
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Stanford Law School and Columbia University - School of Law
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COVID-10, Coronavirus, Force Majeure, Act of God, Material Adverse Effect, Material Adverse Change

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Putting Stockholders First, Not the First-Filed Complaint

Business Lawyer, Vol. 69, 2013, Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business Discussion Paper No. 740, Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-25
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 17 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2014
Leo E. Strine Jr., Lawrence A. Hamermesh and Matthew Jennejohn
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Widener University Delaware Law School and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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class actions, derivative suits, forum non conveniens, first-filed rule, multi-forum litigation, internal affairs doctrine, choice of law, choice of forum, state of incorporation

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Contractual Evolution

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 89, pp. 901-978, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper 654
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 28 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2022
Matthew Jennejohn, Julian Nyarko and Eric L. Talley
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Stanford Law School and Columbia University - School of Law
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Mergers and Acquisitions; COVID-19; MAEs; CFIUS; #MeToo; Contracts; Contract Design; Network Effects

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Collaboration, Innovation, and Contract Design

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 319
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 17 Sep 2007
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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incomplete contracts, research, development, theory of the firm, deverticalization, generative

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Deal Structure

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 112, No. 2, 2018, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 231, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 229, BYU Law Research Paper No. 17-32
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2018
Cathy Hwang and Matthew Jennejohn
University of Virginia School of Law and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Introducing a New Corpus of Definitive M&A Agreements, 2000-2020

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 4731282
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Feb 2024
Peter Adelson, Matthew Jennejohn, Julian Nyarko and Eric L. Talley
Stanford University, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Stanford Law School and Columbia University - School of Law
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Contracts, Contract Design, Mergers and Acquisitions, Law and Finance

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The Private Order of Innovation Networks

Stanford Law Review, 2016, Forthcoming, BYU Law Research Paper No. 15-23
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 29 Oct 2015
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Contract, Innovation, Collaboration, Networks, Intellectual Property

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Contractual Depth

106 Minn. L. Rev. 1267 (2022), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-47, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-23, BYU Law Research Paper 22-09
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2022
Cathy Hwang and Matthew Jennejohn
University of Virginia School of Law and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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The New Research on Contractual Complexity

14 Capital Markets Law Journal 381 (2019)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 04 Feb 2021
Cathy Hwang and Matthew Jennejohn
University of Virginia School of Law and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Contract Production in M&A Markets

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-08, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2023-01, BYU Law Research Paper No. 22-28, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 665 , NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 23-18
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 04 May 2023
Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, Matthew Jennejohn and Robert E. Scott
New York University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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M&A, contract design, contract law, fraud, private equity

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The Architecture of Contract Innovation

Boston College Law Review, Forthcoming, BYU Law Research Paper No. 17-33
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 08 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2018
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Gender and the Social Structure of Exclusion in U.S. Corporate Law

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, BYU Law Research Paper 22-25
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 02 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2023
Afra Afsharipour and Matthew Jennejohn
University of California, Davis - School of Law and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Delaware, Diversity, Gender, Social Networks, Network Analysis

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Innovation and the Institutional Design of Merger Control

41 J. of Corp. L. 101 (2015), BYU Law Research Paper No. 15-24
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Oct 2015
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Mergers, M&A, Merger Control, Merger Review, Antitrust, Institutional Design, Experimentalism

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Contract Adjudication in a Collaborative Economy

CLEA 2008 Meetings Paper
Posted: 04 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2009
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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collaboration, contract enforcement, formalism, contextualism, experimentalism

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Braided Agreements and New Frontiers for Relational Contract Theory

45 J. Corp. L. 101 (2020)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 May 2020
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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contract design, contract law, preliminary agreements, innovation, defense contracting, government procurement

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Hidden Bias in Empirical Textualism

109 Georgetown Law Journal 767 (2021), BYU Law Research Paper No. 21-07
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 May 2021
Matthew Jennejohn, Samuel Nelson and D. Carolina Núñez
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, J. Reuben Clark Law School and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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corpus linguistics, textualism, legal interpretation, gender bias

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Do Networks Govern Contracts?

47 J. Corp. L. (2022 Forthcoming ), BYU Law Research Paper No. 22-08
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2022
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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contract law, contract design, private ordering, innovation, social networks

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Exemplary Contracts and Summary Terms Sheets for the Private Order of Innovation Networks

Number of pages: 272 Posted: 08 Oct 2015
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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contract, innovation, alliances, collaboration

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The Diffusion of Deal Innovations in Complex Contractual Networks

BYU Law Research Paper No. 23-22
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2023
Kristina Bishop, Matthew Jennejohn and Cree Jones
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and BYU Law School
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Contracts, Innovation, Evolution, Networks, Diffusion

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The Transactional Dynamics of Market Fragility

85 Law and Contemporary Problems (2022 Forthcoming), BYU Law Research Paper No. 22-11
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Apr 2022
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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markets, contract law, contract design, economic networks, relational contracting, market fragility

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Delaware's Frontier

24 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 791 (2022), BYU Law Research Paper No. 22-27
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Dec 2022
Matthew Jennejohn and D. Gordon Smith
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School and Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Delware courts, U.S. economy, corporate law, business law, litigation, private ordering, uncertainty

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Transformation Cost Engineering

2020 Wisconsin Law Review 573, BYU Law Research Paper No. 22-10
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Apr 2022
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School
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corporate law, merger and acquisition agreements, M&A agreements, standardization, innovation, contractual innovation, contract design, contract law

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Governing Innovative Collaboration: A New Theory of Contract

Posted: 13 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2013
Matthew Jennejohn
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School

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contract theory, economic organization, theory of the firm, incomplete contracts, relational contracts, private ordering, contract interpretation, pragmatism, formalism, contextualism, problem-solving court, alternative dispute resolution