Last week was Spring Break at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and I took advantage of the opportunity to visit Munich, Germany. This was a working vacation, as I am embarking on a comparative corporate governance research project. Very hush-hush for the moment, but I will disclose more on the blog as we proceed. For the moment, suffice it to say that I spent about 30 hours over three days in Munich discussing German and US corporate governance.

I didn't do much sight-seeing in the city, but I did attend a production of Siegfried at the Bayerische Staatsoper, courtesy of my host, Andrea Engert. (Yes, that's Siegfried to the left.) How much did I understand? Not much. But I enjoyed the modern staging, and the singers/musicians were terrific.

Prior to arriving in Munich, I did a bit of touring around Bavaria and northern Austria. If you are like me, when you imagine King Ludwig's Neuschwanstein Castle or Halstatt, Austria, you think of a spring scene. Last weekend, a blizzard dumped about six inches of snow on the region, and that was pretty, too. The only problem is that I was attempting to drive though it using a rental car with summer tires. Pretty stressful.

On the way back home, I stopped in Columbus for the inaugural conference of the Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal. I spoke about the role of courts in developing entrepreneurial communities, and I will post a draft of the paper here soon. It was nice to see Bill Sjostrom of Truth on the Market, Rich Booth of The Quant, and frequent Conglomerate commenter Jeff Lipshaw, as well as Chancellor Bill Chandler and our host Dale Oesterle of the Business Law Prof Blog.

Well, it wasn't exactly Cancun ... and that's just the way I want it.

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