Do you ask for contract or purchase terms prior to completing your everyday purchases? Do you first read the pizza box … before paying the pizza delivery guy or gal? Typical consumers do not ask for or read their contracts prepurchase, and … from the recent e-survey I conducted of consumers’ contracting behavior. The Article concludes by inviting further study …

The Unfair Contract Terms Directive offers consumers protection from pre-arranged imbalanced contract terms. While the … contractual terms that international online service providers provide to consumers, which are unlikely to pass the Directive …

This Article argues that freedom of contract will take on different meaning in a world in which ubiquitous information … about places, goods, people, firms and contract terms is available to contracting parties anywhere, any time. In particular … thereby strengthens traditional understandings of freedom of contract as enforcing contracts as written. This is largely a …

-based”, and 3) “cost-sharing”. It is proved that: The first type of contract is effective only when the service provider is risk …-averse and the arrivals of the two types of customer are correlated; under the risk-neutral assumption, the latter two contract … performance-based contract …