Most people think contracts are boring. I get it. They’re usually written that way on purpose.
But there’s one clause — one particular piece of legal engineering — that I think is genuinely beautiful. It solves an impossible problem with elegant simplicity. It’s been refined over centuries of case law. And it’s probably in every contract you’ve ever signed.
This episode is about finding beauty in unexpected places, and about why good legal writing is an art form that most lawyers have forgotten.