Nancy S. Kim
​Author,
Law Professor
& Contracts Expert
​I research and write about contracts, the meaning of consent, licensing, the effect of technology on humans and society, and the relationship between law, society and social norms.
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If you are looking for my fiction, please click here.
​ OP-EDS
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How Facebook can be held accountable: Web platforms should be liable for harmful products, LOS ANGELES TIMES, (November 13, 2021); https: Op-Ed: Think Facebook is invincible? Here's how the social media giant can be held accountable - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
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Nancy S. Kim. The Proposed Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts and the Struggle Over the Soul of Contract Law,
JURIST, (June 2, 2019); https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2019/06/nancy-kim-contracts-restatement/
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Nancy S. Kim, Wrap contracts: the online scourge, OUP blog, (December 17, 2013);
https://blog.oup.com/2013/12/wrap-contracts-privacy-control-consumers/
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Nancy S. Kim, Despite limits, ‘eraser’ law is important, SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE, (October 11, 2013),
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/oct/11/despite-limits-eraser-law-is-important/all/?print
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Carnival Cruise and the contracting of everything, OUP blog, (September 20, 2013);
http://blog.oup.com/2013/09/carnival-cruise-standard-consumer-contract/
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Nancy S. Kim, Why do we sign away our Internet right to privacy, THE SACRAMENTO BEE, (August 14, 2013);
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/04/5620462/why-do-we-sign-away-our-internet.html
Nancy S. Kim, Bank fees unconscionable, SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE, (October 16, 2009);
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/16/bank-fees-unconscionable/?opinion
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Nancy S. Kim, Sacrificing privacy to the web gods, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, (March 6, 2008);
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/06/EDENVAIND.DTL
Nancy Kim: Playing by the rules of the cyber playground, THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, (July 4, 2008);
http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_kim4_07-04-08_FDAN168_v20.411deb6.html
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SELECTED SHORT ARTICLES & ESSAYS
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Nancy S. Kim, Little Clicks, Big Consequences, JOTWELL (June 20, 2019) (reviewing Brett Frischmann & Evan Selinger’s RE-
ENGINEERING HUMANITY (2018), https://contracts.jotwell.com/little-clicks-big-consequences/
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Nancy S. Kim, Resisting Contract Law’s Paradigm Slip Through Shared Meaning, JOTWELL (May 17, 2018) (reviewing Robin B. Kar &
Margaret J. Radin’s, Pseudo-Contract & Shared Meaning Analysis, 132 HARV. L. REV. (forthcoming 2019),
https://contracts.jotwell.com/resisting-contract-laws-paradigm-slip-through-shared-meaning/
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Nancy S. Kim, Is Contract Law Ready for the Internet of Things?, JOTWELL (December 5, 2016) (reviewing Stacy-Ann Elvy,
Contracting in the Age of the Internet of Things: Article 2 of the UCC and Beyond, 44 HOFSTRA L. REV. 839 (2016),
http://contracts.jotwell.com/is-contract-law-ready-for-the-internet-of-things/
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Nancy S. Kim, Exploitation by Wrap Contract – Click “Agree,” 39 NEW MATTER 10 (publication of Intellectual Property Section of
California State Bar Association) (Summer 2014)
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Nancy S. Kim, Boilerplate and Consent, 17 GREENBAG 2D 293 (Spring 2014)
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Nancy S. Kim, Wrap Contracts and Privacy (Proceedings of the Intelligent Information Privacy Management Symposium, AAAI
Press, 2010) (selected paper)
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Nancy S. Kim, Imposing Tort Liability on Websites for Cyber Harassment, 118 YALE L. J. POCKET PART 115 (2008);
http://thepocketpart.org/2008/12/15/kim.html.
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Nancy S. Kim, Internet Challenges to Business Innovation, 12 J. INTERNET L. 3 (August 2008)