Robert E Scott

Biographic Data

ID292613
NAMERobert E Scott
GIVEN NAMESRobert E
FAMILY NAMEScott
SIGNATURESCOTT R E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1951
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Commercial Boilerplate

    Open AccessRobert E Scott, Stephen J Choi et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Law and Social…2024

    Boilerplate contracts have long fascinated legal scholars. But the focus has been largely on consumer contracts, with the debate centered on the question of whether take-it-or-leave-it mass-produced forms imposed on consumers by large corporations should be treated as contracts or as a problem in regulation. By contrast, commercial boilerplate—the standard forms used in transactions for corporate or sovereign bonds or merger agreements—has tradit…

  • Contractual Howlers

    Robert E Scott, Stephen J Choi et al.ARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal2023

    Both theorists and courts commonly assume that high-dollar financial contracts between sophisticated parties are free of linguistic errors: sophisticated parties, the thinking goes, will carefully express their shared intentions and eliminate any troublesome gaps and glitches. Consistent with this assumption, most courts interpret the language of commercial contracts literally according to the plain or ordinary meaning of the words in the agreeme…

  • Origin Myths, Contracts, and the Hunt for Pari Passu

    Open AccessMark C Weidemaier, Mark Weidemaier et al.ARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry2012Cited by: 1References: 11

    We use interviews with corporate lawyers and a data set of contracts to explore an elite area of legal practice: sovereign bond lending. Sovereign debt lawyers work at prestigious global law firms, yet the contracts they produce include some terms that defy explanation. Lawyers often account for the existence of these terms through origin myths. Focusing on one contract term, the pari passu clause, we explore two puzzling aspects of these myths. …

  • The Law and Economics of Incomplete Contracts

    Robert E ScottARTICLEAnnual Review of Law and Social…2006Cited by: 5References: 9

    Individual actors want to make their promises enforceable in order to motivate mutually profitable investments. But parties cannot easily design contracts that maximize beneficial investments and also respond appropriately to changing conditions. Although economists have designed theoretical models that maximize joint welfare both ex ante and ex post, these mechanisms depend on a perfectly functioning and costless system of enforcement. In the re…

  • Plea Bargaining as Contract

    Robert E Scott, William J StuntzARTICLEThe Yale Law Journal1992Cited by: 11

    Most criminal prosecutions are settled without a trial.'The parties to these settlements trade various risks and entitlements: the defendant relinquishes the right to go to trial (along with any chance of acquittal), while the prosecutor gives up the entitlement to seek the highest sentence or pursue the most serious charges possible.The resulting bargains differ predictably from what would have happened had the same cases been taken to trial.Def…

  • National Development and Mexico's Foreign Policy

    Open AccessRobert E ScottARTICLEInternational Journal Canada s…1982

  • Los orígenes del partido único en México

    Robert E ScottARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1981

  • Measuring Sellers' Damages

    Charles J Goetz, Robert E ScottARTICLEStanford Law Review1979

    A buyer repudiates a fixed-price contract to purchase goods, and the seller sues for damages. How should a court measure the seller's loss? The answer seems simple: The seller should be awarded damages sufficient to place it in the same economic position it would have enjoyed had the buyer performed the contract. But the seductive conceptual simplicity of the compensation principle disguises substantial practical problems in measuring seller's da…

  • Historia de la Revolución Mexicana

    Robert E ScottARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1979Cited by: 1

  • Historia de la Revolucion Mexicana

    Robert E Scott, Olga Pellicer De Brody et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1979

  • Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico

    Open AccessRobert E ScottARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1978

  • The Peruvian Experiment

    Robert E Scott, Abraham F LowenthalARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1977

  • Latin American Modernization Problems

    Graciela E Duce, Robert E ScottARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1975

  • Mexican Government in Transition

    Open AccessRobert E ScottARTICLEVerfassung in Recht und Übersee1975

    VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 299 - 302

  • Politics and Privilege in a Mexican City

    Robert E Scott, Richard R Fagen et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1973

    This learned and hard-hitting book challenges the basic assumptions underlying American policy toward communism in the Third, or emergent, world. Kiernan argues persuasively that communism is a logical stage in the development of many Asian, African, and Latin American countries that see strong government and a planned economy as the key to modernization. He suggests that our national interest would be better served by supporting rather than supp…

  • Politics and Privilege in a Mexican City

    Robert E ScottARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1973

  • Latin American Modernization Problems

    Russell H Fitzgibbon, Robert E ScottARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1973

  • Bureaucracy and Development

    Robert E Scott, Martin Harry GreenbergARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1971

  • Japan's Place in Trade Strategy

    H Makower, G C Allen et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1970

    Journal Article G. C. Allen. Japan's Place in Trade Strategy: Larger Role in Pacific Region.L. Beaton. Commonwealth in a New Era. Pioneers, of an Open World.L. Gelber. World Politics and Free Trade: Britain, U.S.A. and the West.H. Liesner. Atlantic Harmonisation: Making Free Trade WorkSir Robert Scott. Major Theatre of Conflict: British Policy in East Africa Get access Japan's Place in Trade Strategy: Larger Role in Pacific Region. By G. C. Allen…

  • Modernization and Coercion

    Robert E Scott, Mario Etchechury Barrera et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1970

  • Politics in the Altiplano

    Robert E Scott, Robert B Scott et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1970

  • Modernization and CoercionDevelopmental Processes in Chilean Local GovernmentSocial Stratification in PeruLatin America

    Robert E ScottARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1970

  • Politics and Social Forces in Chilean Development

    Robert E Scott, James PetrasARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1970

  • Power in Ica

    Robert E Scott, E A HammelARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1970

  • The Latin Americans

    Robert E ScottARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1970