Professor John Kidwell attended a conference in Gloucester, England June 6-8, 2004 commemorating the 150th anniversary of the famous nineteenth-century contract damages case Hadley v. Baxendale. Scholars from England, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States presented papers that ranged from a review of the ways in which civil law scholars influenced early English and American law, to the changes that the Internet has brought to our thinking about contract law issues.
Professor Kidwell participated in a roundtable discussion titled "Relational Contracting in the Digital Age." The conference proceedings, including a transcript of the roundtable discussion, will be published in the Texas Wesleyan Law Review in Fall 2004.
Conference participants were treated to a visit to the site of Hadley's mill, made famous by the case. "It is perhaps a mark of the passage of time," Kidwell said, "that the mill, which overlooks the Gloucester docks, is currently being converted to condominiums!"
To learn more about the conference, see http://www.hadleyconference.com . Those interested in buying a condominium may inquire of Professor Kidwell the Web address for that venture.
Submitted by on July 6, 2004
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