Estoppel

Is the Closely Related Doctrine a Creature of State or Federal Law?

The closely related doctrine, discussed here and here and here, posits that a non-signatory to a contract may be bound by a forum selection clause in that contract if the non-signatory is so “closely related” to a signatory that it was “foreseeable” that it would be bound. Robin Effron and I have argued that using…

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Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk

Vanderbilt Law School
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George Washington University Law School
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Cornell Law School
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University of North Carolina School of Law
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UC Davis School of Law
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Rinat Gareev

Whitecliff Management
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Yale Law School
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Duke Law School
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William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Vanderbilt Law School
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Vanderbilt Law School
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Willamette University College of Law
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China University of Political Science and Law
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