{"id":5116,"date":"2022-02-13T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2022-02-13T19:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T00:20:44","slug":"hamann-on-k-is-for-contract-why-is-it-though-maxplancklaw-hanjohamann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/13\/hamann-on-k-is-for-contract-why-is-it-though-maxplancklaw-hanjohamann\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamann on K Is For Contract&#8211;Why Is It, Though? @MaxPlanckLaw @HanjoHamann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hanjo Hamann, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, has published<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919584&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law:humanities:ejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> K is for Contract\u2015Why is it, Though?<\/a> at 106 Minnesota Law Review Online Companion Headnotes (2022). Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just like Supreme Court justices, law students in the United States almost unanimously abbreviate the word \u201ccontract\u201d using the capital letter K. Despite this consensus, no writer has ever explained why a word that starts with \u201cc\u201d should be abbreviated to \u201cK\u201d instead. The present paper investigates this question, following threads of legal discourse into various interconnected societal contexts\u2015including Boston high society, 19th century baseball, German intellectual property law, the neuroscience of sleep, and Civil War contract management. I show that the K-for-Contract convention probably originated between 1900 and 1949, and may have come, of all places, from satirical military lingo. In arriving at this finding, the present essay offers an intriguing case study of legal narratology and the propagation of lawyerly conventions. By empirically surveying contract law professors to trace the origins of K-for-Contract, the study also shows that even seasoned instructors who use and teach this legal shorthand can no longer justify its usage. This proves to be an instructive illustration of boilerplate effects, or what one Contracts professor called the \u201carcane underpinnings of the rules we all follow\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanjo Hamann, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, has published K is for Contract\u2015Why is it, Though? at 106 Minnesota Law Review Online Companion Headnotes (2022). Here is the abstract. Just like&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[455,274],"tags":[759,751,701,132],"class_list":["post-5116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-language","category-law-and-linguistics","tag-contracts","tag-law-and-language","tag-law-and-linguistics","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1kw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}