From: Jeremy Telman <datelman@okcu.edu>

Sent: Friday 12 December 2025 13:53

To: obligations

Subject: Reminder and Announcement about the 18th International Conference on Contracts!

Forwarding from our host, Rachel Arnow-Richman:

The reminder is that the submission deadline is fast approaching. Please submit your abstract toconferences@law.ufl.edu by Dec. 15, 2025.

The announcement is that we will be instituting a new tradition this coming KCON, the Distinguished Service Award:  

The Distinguished Service Award recognizes a senior contracts scholar and teacher who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to the contract law scholarly community by creating and sustaining opportunities for intellectual dialogue and scholarly exchange, fostering an inclusive and supportive environment, embracing and mentoring emerging scholars, and forging the connections among us.

I'm pleased to announce that the inaugural recipient of this new honor will be our beloved founder Frank Snyder (Texas A&M).

(This award will be in addition to our established tradition of conferring the Lifetime Achievement award recognizing an outstanding career of contributions to contracts scholarship. Stay tuned for a future announcements about that award!) 

RAR 

18th Annual International Conference on Contracts

Hosted by Levin College of Law, University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

February 19 - 21, 2026

The University of Florida Levin College of Law is pleased to host the 18th Annual International Conference on Contracts (KCON XVIII) Thursday, February 19, through Saturday, February 21, 2026. KCON is the largest annual international academic conference dedicated to contract law and related areas of commercial law. It brings together contract law scholars, expert practitioners, and aspiring academics from around the world.

KCON strives to be an open community for supporting and enriching scholarship. It welcomes presentations on projects at every level of development, including recently published articles, drafts, works-in-progress, preliminary ideas, and thought experiments. It provides an unparalleled opportunity to engage with colleagues and potential collaborators and mentors in the field. Junior scholars are especially encouraged to participate.

Call for Proposals for Presentations

We invite submissions on any aspect of contract law, related areas of commercial law, and contract/commercial law pedagogy. Presentations at past conferences have drawn from a variety of methodologies and perspectives, including doctrinal, theoretical, empirical, historical, economic, critical, international/comparative, and interdisciplinary. Projects comparing common law and civil law treatment of contract issues are welcome. Those that focus on a single civil law jurisdiction should be put in a wider context.

Please submit your proposal for presentation in the form of an abstract and title not exceeding 500 words to conferences@law.ufl.edu. The deadline to submit is Monday, December 15, 2025. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis. Those whose proposals are accepted will be expected to present their work in person. All attendees, including speakers, must register to attend. The registration fee is $250, which includes entry to all conference sessions and meals.

Getting to Gainesville

Gainesville is most easily accessed by Interstate 75 in north Florida. The host site address is 309 Village Drive, Gainesville, Florida.  Air travel directly into Gainesville (GNV) is available on American Airlines or Delta Airlines, and larger airports in Jacksonville (JAX), Orlando (MCO), and Tampa (TPA) are within 1-2 hour drive. A hotel room block link for conference attendees will be shared in the coming weeks.

Questions

A conference webpage with additional details will be available soon.  For questions regarding submissions, please contact Professor Rachel Arnow-Richman at rarnowrichman@law.ufl.edu. For questions regarding conference logistics, please contact Assistant Dean Michael Farley at farley@law.ufl.edu.

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D. A. Jeremy Telman | Professor of Law

(he/him/his)

Oklahoma City University School of Law

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