SelectedWorks - Larry A DiMatteo

Selected Works of Larry A DiMatteo

Affiliate Professor of Law

Education:
LL.M., Harvard Law School J.D., Cornell Law School (magna cum laude) Ph.D., Monash University (Australia) B.A., (economics); B.A. (Political Science) State University of New York at Buffalo (summa cum laude)
Teaching and Scholarship:
Contract Law, Contract Theory, International Business Transactions, International Sales Law, Commercial Law, Comparative Law
Professional Activities:
Fulbright Professorship (Bulgaria, 2012)
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Leicester, U.K. (2009-11)
Editor in Chief, American Business Law Journal (2006)
President, International Law Section, Academy of Legal Studies in Business

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About Larry A DiMatteo

Education:
LL.M., Harvard Law School J.D., Cornell Law School (magna cum laude) Ph.D., Monash University (Australia) B.A., (economics); B.A. (Political Science) State University of New York at Buffalo (summa cum laude)
Teaching and Scholarship:
Contract Law, Contract Theory, International Business Transactions, International Sales Law, Commercial Law, Comparative Law
Professional Activities:
Fulbright Professorship (Bulgaria, 2012)
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Leicester, U.K. (2009-11)
Editor in Chief, American Business Law Journal (2006)
President, International Law Section, Academy of Legal Studies in Business

Present	Huber Hurst Professor of Contract Law, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, University of Florida Levin College of Law
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Law

Mailing Address:
Box #117165 Gainesville, FL 32611
Email:
larry.dimatteo@warrington.ufl.edu
Phone:
352.392.0323
Fax:
352.392.6020

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Articles (18)

Terminology Matters: Dangers of Superficial Transplantation (Silvia Ferreri and Larry A. DiMatteo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2019)

The history of legal transplantations from one legal system to another is as long as law itself. It has numerous edifications and names including reception, borrowing, and influence. Legal transplantations from one legal system to ...

Comparative Warranty Law: Case of Planned Obsolescence (Stefan Wrbka and Larry A. DiMatteo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2019)

The cause of our present stagnation is that the supply line or arteries furnishing the needs of the country are clogged with obsolete, outworn and outmoded machinery, buildings and commodities of all kinds. These are ...

Inefficiency of Specific Performance As a Contractual Remedy in Chinese Courts: An Empirical and Normative Analysis (Lei Chen and Larry A. DiMatteo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2019)

This article investigates the values and latent policies, which have shaped the development of Chinese law in the area of the availability of specific performance (SP) as a contractual remedy. The National People’s Congress (Legislature) ...

Unframing Legal Reasoning: A Cyclical Theory of Legal Evolution (Larry A. DiMatteo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2018)

This article draws from legal history to inform a part of legal theory. The legal history examination focuses on two theories of legal development - Henry Sumner Maine's "progression thesis" and Nathan Isaacs's "cycle theory." ...

Chinese Reception and Transplantation of Western Contract Law (Wang Jingen and Larry A. DiMatteo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2016)

The transformation of the People's Republic of China (China) into a market economy and its ascendancy into a global economic power increases the importance of studying its private laws (contract, torts, property, and unjust enrichment). ...

Contractual Excuse Under the CISG: Impediment, Hardship, and the Excuse Doctrines (Larry A. DiMatteo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2015)

This article will examine the law of excuse as espoused in the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). It will examine the relevant case law applying the doctrine of impediment found ...

CISG as Basis of a Comprehensive International Sales Law (Larry A. DiMatteo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2013)

Contract Stories: Importance of the Contextual Approach to Law (Larry A. DiMatteo) UF Law Faculty Publications (2013)

How law is taught is at the center of the debate over the need to change legal education to better prepare students for a difficult and changing marketplace for legal services. This Article analyzes the ...

An 'All of the Above' Theory of Legal Development (Revised) (Larry A DiMatteo) TBD (2012)

The paper provides a brief background of Nathan Isaacs, his work, and his theory of legal development. Invariably, when analyzing Isaacs’ claim that history proves that law developments in cycles (status to contract to status) ...

Comparative Efficiency in International Sales Law (Larry A. DiMatteo and Daniel Ostas) UF Law Faculty Publications (2011)

The article employs the method of the economic analysis of law (EAL) in a comparative context. In particular, it assesses the efficiency of select provisions of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International ...

Justice, Employment, and The Psychological Contract (Larry A. DiMatteo, Robert C. Bird and Jason A. Colquitt) UF Law Faculty Publications (2011)

The paper is a multidisciplinary collaboration between contract law, employment law and management scholars and draws from the fields of law, management, and psychology. After reviewing and noting the gaps in the employment and justice ...

Comparative Efficiency in Internatonal Sales Law (Larry A DiMatteo and Daniel Ostas) AMERICAN U. INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2011)

The article employs the method of the economic analysis of law (EAL) in a comparative context. In particular, it assesses the efficiency of select provisions of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International ...

Contracts in Context and Contracts as Context (Larry A. DiMatteo and Blake D. Morant) UF Law Faculty Publications (2010)

The annual Business Law Symposium of the Wake Forest Law Review has a distinguished legacy of noteworthy programs that shed light on seminal issues affecting contemporary business in the United States. This edition builds on ...

Beyond Rules (Larry A. DiMatteo and Samuel Flaks) UF Law Faculty Publications (2010)

Our article, in contrast to the predominant scholarly view, contends that the influential Legal Realist Movement of the 1930s was actually two movements—radical legal realism and conservative legal realism (CLR). CLR is best understood through ...

"Beyond Rules" (Larry A DiMatteo and Samuel Flaks) HOUSTON LAW REVIEW (2010)

Our article, in contrast to the predominant scholarly view, contends that the influential Legal Realist Movement of the 1930s was actually two movements—radical legal realism and conservative legal realism (CLR). CLR is best understood through ...

STRATEGIC CONTRACTING: CONTRACT LAW AS A SOURCE OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (Larry A DiMatteo) AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL (2010)

This paper uses sources taken from the legal literature, as well as literature from strategy and human resource management. It explores Professor Gilson’s noted remark in the Yale Law Journal that “business lawyers serve as ...

Policing Limited Liability Companies Under Contract Law (Larry A DiMatteo) American Business Law Journal (2009)

In 2004, Delaware amended its limited liability company law (Delaware Act) to allow for the contractual elimination of fiduciary duties. The statute seeks to emphasize the contract basis of limited liability companies (LLCs). It does ...

A Consent Theory of Unconscionability: An Empirical Study of Law in Action (Larry A. DiMatteo and Bruce L. Rich) UF Law Faculty Publications (2006)

This Article provides the findings of an empirical study of 187 court cases in which the issue of the unconscionability of a contract or a contract term was addressed by the courts. The cases were ...

Soft Law and the Principle of Fair and Equitable Decisionmaking in International Contract Arbitration (Larry A DiMatteo) (2013)

This article provides a survey of the special relationship between international commercial arbitration and soft law instruments. It briefly traces the historical roots of the lex mercatoria to its present enunciation in the Convention on ...

An All of the Above Theory of Legal Development (Larry A DiMatteo) (2013)

This paper reviews different theories of legal development in order to highlight their similarities and differences. In the end, as in contract theories, no monist view of legal development possesses the explanatory power needed to ...

EMPLOYMENT, JUSTICE, AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT (Larry A DiMatteo, Robert Bird and Jason Colquitt) ExpressO (2011)

The manuscript is a interdisciplinary collaboration between contract law, employment law and management scholars and draws from the fields of law, management, and psychology. One of the authors is currently Editor-in-Chief of the top-tier level ...

Justice, Employment, and The Psychological Contract (Larry DiMatteo, Robert Bird and Jason Colquitt) (2011)

The paper is a multidisciplinary collaboration between contract law, employment law and management scholars and draws from the fields of law, management, and psychology. After reviewing and noting the gaps in the employment and justice ...

COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCY IN INTERNATIONAL SALES LAW (Larry A. DiMatteo and Daniel T. Ostas) ExpressO (2010)

The article employs the method of the economic analysis of law (EAL) in a comparative context. In particular, it assesses the efficiency of select provisions of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International ...