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Arthur Allen Leff

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Arthur Allen Leff · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Contracts scholar; influential author on unconscionability in commercial law

When

1935, United States — 1981, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Arthur Allen Leff is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Contracts scholar; influential author on unconscionability in commercial law

How & why

Leff was an influential American legal scholar and Yale law professor whose 1967 article 'Unconscionability and the Code' introduced the distinction between 'procedural' and 'substantive' unconscionability that became the starting point for all later analysis of the doctrine in commercial law. His essays on ethics and law remain widely cited. He is documented as Jewish in Jewish biographical reference sources.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Contracts scholar; influential author on unconscionability in commercial law

1935

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence