This Article claims that trust law should recognize the unconscionability defense. It begins by noting the symmetry between trust and contract defenses and the broad consensus among courts and scholars that trusts are contracts. It sketches the leading rationales for why courts enforce promises...

For decades, the Supreme Court has expanded the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and companies have placed arbitration clauses in hundreds of millions of contracts. This Article examines a less obvious way in which arbitration's tendrils are growing. Once, even the broadest arbitration provisions...

Hundreds of millions of consumer and employment contracts include arbitration clauses, class arbitration waivers, and other terms that modify the rules of litigation. These provisions ride the wake of the Supreme Court’s expansive interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). For...

One of the most controversial trends in American civil justice is litigation lending: corporations paying plaintiffs a lump sum in return for a stake in a pending lawsuit. Although causes of action were once inalienable, many jurisdictions have abandoned this bright-line prohibition, opening the...