Postette: Excellent ABA Article About Web-Based Terms of Sale

I’ve written fairly often in these web pages about whether online terms and conditions are enforceable—partly because it’s a developing area of contract law, partly because I’m fascinated by the legal fiction that there’s a “meeting of the minds” between website owner and user, and partly because I’m waiting to see what happens when a website owner crosses the line as illustrated by this South Park clip. The ABA’s Business Law Today magazine recently published an excellent article about whether online terms are enforceable, which focuses on the incorporation by reference doctrine. The article was written by Raymond P. Kolak and Ryan D. Strohmeier and it’s well worth a read.