NEW ENGLAND LAW REVIEW


VOLUME 17

FALL 1981

NUMBER 2


Foreword

Barbara A. Smart


Preface

A. Levitt Taylor


Dedications to Justice Robert Braucher

R. Ammi Cutter

Erwin N. Griswold

Herbert P. Wilkins


Articles

The Problems of Nonperformance in Contract

Farnsworth, E. Allan

Specific Performance Under Section 2-716 of the Uniform Commercial Code: "A More Liberal Attitude" in the "Grand Style"

Greenberg, Harold

The Stop Payment Right in an Electronic Payment Environment: An Analysis of the Transition Problems Involved When Integrating a Traditional Right into New Value Transfer Systems

Mittelsteadt, Thomas O.

A Plea for the Creation of Commercial Courts

de Seife, Rodolphe J.A.


Notes

Construction Worker Residency Requirements: A Constitutional Response

Lerner, Jane E.

The Effect of the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act of 1980 on Child Snatching

Pettenati, Jeanne K.

Voluntary Sterilization of the Non-Institutionalized Mentally Incompetent Individual: Judicial Involvement or Abstention?

Sachs, Lawrence B.


Case Comments

Increasing Protection for Women in the Area of Gender-Based Wage Discrimination: County of Washington v. Gunther

Gatlin, Michael G.

Government Contracts and the Comptroller General's Investigatory Power Under the Access-to-Records Statutes: Bristol Laboratories v. Staats

Rooney, John F.


Recent Development

The Recent Recognition of the Doctrine of Estoppel by Lease in Massachusetts

Feinbaum, Bart M.


Book Review

Modern Products Liability Law

Britain, James