Month: February 2013

My Article in Asian Legal Business

The January 2013 issue of Asian Legal Business contains my micro-article Asia: Different Contracts, Different Cultures. It discusses the mixture of “cultures” of contract drafting in Asia. Go here for a PDF copy. This article represents the first time I’ve acted as a pseudojournalist, quoting some sources, including friends of the blog Mark Anderson and Andrew Godwin. Cunningly placed under … Read More

Another Helping of Syntactic Ambiguity

Bryan Keenan,  director of the Wilming­ton, Delaware, law firm of Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, let me know about an instance of syntactic ambiguity addressed by the Delaware Court of Chancery in the recent case In re Mobilactive Media, LLC (here). (Syntactic ambiguity involves uncertainty over which part of a sentence a given phrase modifies or which part of a phrase a given … Read More