March 31, 2008
Paul Rose is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law of The Ohio State University, where he teaches and writes about matters relating to corporate governance, securities regulation, institutional investors, and comparative corporate law. Paul is also a veteran of the Conglomerate Junior Scholars Workshop, so we are thrilled that he has agreed to spend a couple of weeks with us as a guest blogger. Welcome, Paul!
March 18, 2008
We are thrilled to welcome Bill Bratton as a guest blogger for the next two weeks. Bill is Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law Center and one of the keenest observers of corporate governance issues I know. He tells me that later in the week he will be reporting from the Amsterdam Vanderbilt conference on Shareholder Rights, Shareholder Voting and Corporate Performance, which comprises a high-flying group of presenters. Welcome, Bill!
February 18, 2008
The Conglomerate is pleased to welcome back Brett McDonnell for another guest-blogging stint. Brett was the very first guest on the Glom, way back in 2005. Which is like 30 years ago in old media years. The Glom was a two person operation back then (Gordon and Christine), unsullied by tax law types such as myself.
Brett teaches business associations, corporate finance, and various other corporate and law & econ related topics at the University of Minnesota. Brett and I clerked together for Judge Kozinski way back in 1997, which is like 100 years ago in old law professor years.
Welcome, Brett!
February 04, 2008
Don Clarke is Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, where he specializes in Chinese law. You may know him from Chinese Law Prof Blog, or from his interesting work on Chinese corporate governance (among other things). Over the next two weeks, Don will be blogging here, and we are grateful for his time. Welcome, Don!
January 14, 2008
Garry Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, is joining Danny Sokol as a Conglomerate guest blogger, and we couldn't be more tickled. Garry has written extensively on nonprofits and philanthropy, and we are grateful that he is willing to donate some of his time to Conglomerate. Welcome, Garry!
January 07, 2008
We are very pleased to welcome my friend, Danny Sokol, Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law and blogger extraordinaire at the Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, as a guest blogger for the next two weeks. Danny will be joining the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law this summer. In the meantime, we look forward to reading about some of his academic passions, including LLSV, interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, finance, and organizations, and legal transplant effects. Welcome, Danny!
December 03, 2007
We are thrilled to have Troy Paredes joining Jennifer O'Hare as a current guest blogger. Troy is a professor at Washington University Law School, where he teaches corporations, securities regulation, and corporate finance. He has written all sorts of interesting things about hedge funds and corporate governance generally. We look forward to reading more of his insights here.
November 28, 2007
We made the list of the "100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal." We are listed in the sub-category "Ivory Tower," along with the usual suspects. If you want to vote for Conglomerate, go here.
November 26, 2007
Jennifer O'Hare is Professor of Law at the Villanova University School of Law, where she teaches Business Organizations and several classes in securities regulation. She has written numerous articles about securities regulation, with special attention to matters of securities fraud. And we are thrilled to have Jennifer as a guest blogger for the next two weeks.
November 06, 2007
A couple of hours ago, people starting showing up at Conglomerate after following a search for "Bad Mom Confessions" on MSN. That search turns up this old confession from Christine, but why the sudden interest in Bad Mom Confessions -- and only through MSN's search engine?
Usually, these sorts of event are precipitated by breaking news, but the only thing I could find today was a story about True Mom Confessions, a site where mothers can "unload" anonymously. Holy Cow! If you want to know what your mother was really thinking about you, here is a sample of some recent posts:
My 8yr old only eats cereal. I make dinner, but he won't eat anything I make!! Why is he so damn picky!
I am in love with one of my son's friends. I am not ashamed.
i just want my life back, i wanna go out with friends, i like my husband and teenagegirls. but my dogs and cats have a better life than i have
My three year old son will cry and whine way more throughtout the day than my 1 year old daughter. Why? It irritates that hell out of me that he's so wussy.
I want to trade in my husband for a wife.
If you agree with any of the foregoing sentiments, you can click a link labeled "me too." Here is the top "me too" vote getter on the site:
When the phone rings, I sing.."the phone...the phone is riiinggging. The phone... I'll be right therrrreee."
When I eat something, even if it isnt that tasty, I say it's "delisiouso".
All paw prints are "clues" and I speak with an australian accent when I tell my husband to press a button on the remote.
Thanks a lot Noggin for making me a PSYCHO!!
I admit that I don't understand this, but I gather that it has something to do with this site? I'll bet Christine could tell me.
Anyway, this didn't solve the mystery of the MSN search, but it was a fascinating tangent.
October 22, 2007
We are very pleased to welcome Julian Velasco, associate professor of law at the Notre Dame Law School, as a guest blogger for the next two weeks. Julian teaches and writes about corporate law and securities law, with special attention to shareholder rights. We look forward to learning more about this most interesting and relevant topic. Welcome, Julian!
October 14, 2007
We are very pleased to welcome Larry Cunningham, who will be guest blogging here for the next couple of weeks. Larry has a special fondness for accounting, and I have used his excellent materials for teaching accounting to law students. But if you don't know Larry, you can forget images of green eye shades. He is a dynamic, interesting, and eclectic scholar -- who, by the way, has his own Wikipedia entry -- and I am sure you will enjoy his contributions.
September 26, 2007
I don't know anything about CurrencyTrading.net, but they have impeccable taste in blogs. Conglomerate appears among their newly released "Top 100 Academic Blogs Every Professional Investor Should Read." Thanks, CT!
September 21, 2007
Yesterday morning, William Lincoln Stancil ("Will") entered the world, tipping the scales at 7 pounds 9 ounces. He has white-blonde hair (surprise!). Christine and Will are both well. Congratulations to Christine, Paul, and family.
Here is a photo of Will at less than two hours old ... magical!
September 10, 2007
We are thrilled to welcome Harwell Wells as a guest blogger for the next two weeks. Harwell is currently an assistant professor at Temple University's Beasley School of Law, where he teaches corporate law and professional responsibility. With a PhD in American History from the University of Virginia, Harwell has a special interest in the intersection of corporate law and legal history. Welcome, Harwell!
September 07, 2007
Vic testifies before Congress again, and all of a sudden to Dealbreaker, he's "the intellectual godfather of private equity tax hikes." Is that meant to be a complement? An accusation? Is it even accurate?
Whatever, we're very proud here at the Glom, and we'll take any title we can get. I've always wanted to work with an intellectual godfather, and now, thanks to this here website, I do.
August 26, 2007
With classes beginning tomorrow, I must say goodbye. I'm off to spend some quality time with Stephen Bainbridge, at al. Many thanks to Gordon, Christine, Vic, Dave, Lisa & Fred for their kind hospitality during my visit to the Glom, and best of luck to all with the new school year!
As a parting tidbit, I'll leave you the surreal hysteria of this audio sketch by Kasper Hauser called Spicy Pony Head, which I think is one of the funnier things I've ever heard [you may need to press Play once to activate the player and once more to start the clip]:
August 13, 2007
Greetings, all! Thank you very much for the kind invitation, Gordon, and for the warm welcome.
My first stint as a guest blogger came during last May's final exams, when I discussed my Green Bag piece about soccer just as the European football season was reaching its crescendo amidst a flurry of its own finals. Now, very much like our academic calendar, the new season has begun . . . with a few distressing signs of rust. I hope law professors everywhere will escape the opening-day jitters of Arsenal goalkeeper, Jens Lehmann, and this enormity just 50 seconds into the new year:
[Please forgive the long clip, which you should feel free to stop after 10 seconds or so, but the vigilance of rights-holders has vastly reduced the number of good videos available on YouTube -- the Arabic commentary, however, tends to imbue the description of Lehmann's shambolic effort with a certain piquancy.]
As perhaps this opening citation suggests, I'm very interested in things international and hope to discuss business topics through that lens over the coming fortnight.
August 12, 2007
We are thrilled to welcome William Birdthistle as a guest blogger for the next two weeks. William teaches at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he specializes in business organizations and securities regulation. He also has done his share of guest blogging at Volokh Conspiracy and Prawfsblawg (who can find a link on that site?!), and he was a participant in the Conglomerate Junior Scholars Forum in 2005, when he was still an associate at Ropes & Gray. Welcome, William!
August 07, 2007
Last year we moved our blogroll to the bottom of the site to free up space in the sidebar. Now it is gone altogether. This has been a long time in coming. Since converting to Google Reader, I haven't used the blogroll to stay up to date, and maintaining a current blogroll was becoming increasingly burdensome as I add and delete blogs from Reader.
One of the effects of using Reader is that I can follow more blogs. (36 at the moment, though that is subject to change the instant find an interesting new blog.) When I find something really great on one of those blogs, I want to share it. Rather than posting a "look this is cool" link on the main blog, I have added a new feature to our sidebar called "Random Walk," which is simply a collection of links that we find interesting. And not just to blogs, but to anything linkable. This feature is a widget from del.icio.us (called Linkroll), and it is as simple to install as you can imagine. If you have a Typepad blog, check it out.
July 10, 2007
On behalf of all of the bloggers here at Conglomerate, I am pleased to announce that David Zaring is joining us as a permanent blogger. (Look! He is already in the sidebar!) Like Vic and me, David is transitioning this summer. Formerly an assistant professor at Washington & Lee University School of Law, he will assume his new post as an assistant professor at the Wharton School's Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department in the fall. We have been reading David's guest posts with great interest over the past few weeks, and we are grateful that he has agreed to join us on a permanent basis. David is a "wandering fox," and we are excited to learn more about the intersection of business and administrative law, particularly in the international context. Welcome, David!
July 09, 2007
When should we personally sanction government officials? It's obviously an interest of mine. Here's Reiner Kraakman on when we might want to assess personal liability on corporate employees, from back in the day. Kraakman thought personal liability should only apply as a "backstop" to enterprise liability (and can we analogize the agency to the firm?) when enterprise liability fails - which it might in three cases:
"These failures are (1) asset insufficiency, when firms lack the assets to pay the law's price for their delicts; (2) sanction insufficiency, when the legal system cannot charge a price high enough to deter firm delicts for whatever reason, including asset insufficiency; and (3) enforcement insufficiency, when the legal system cannot even detect or prosecute a significant proportion of offenses."
The government has lot of assets and lots of sovereign immunity, so that's something relevant to the first two of Kraakman's insufficiencies. I'll leave it to readers to assess the prospects of enforcement insufficiency.
June 25, 2007
The Supreme Court today declined to permit citizens to file claims against individual government officials or conspiracies of the same for retaliating against them for exercising their property rights. Ever since Black, Cheffins, and Klausner showed just how rare individual liability for outside corporate directors could be (they say it requires a "perfect storm" combination of insolvency, quasi-fraud, and clear links between the wealth of the outside directors and their conduct), I've been thinking about comparative personal liability for government officials. When can you go after David Addington's assets because you're angry about what he's been up to in prosecuting the war on terror?
It seems to me that it takes a scandal to make a high level official pay a personal price for something that happened while they were on the job. Criminal liability is rare, and the Court just closed the door on yet another possible form of individual civil liability: the Bivens retaliation claim. Justice Souter's policy oriented analysis notes that there's a lot of ways to grieve government officials without making a federal case about it, and underlying his opinion must be some fear about what creating a constitutional retaliation claim might do ("a Bivens action to redress retaliation against those who resist Government impositions on their property rights would invite claims in every sphere of legitimate governmental action affecting property interests, from negotiating tax claim settlements to enforcing Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations"). As any employment lawyer will tell you, retaliation rights are massive grants of the ability to litigate, and, especially, the ability to repeat litigate. The Court also turned away a RICO extortion claim, concluding that government officials cannot commit such crimes if the goal is directed to the benefit of the government, rather than to the individual.
It's yet another example of the difficulty of getting money out of individual government officials' pockets for controversial, even individually targeted, policy decisions. And so it seems to me more evidence that individual sanctions for government officials - perhaps appropriately - usually come out of court instead of within it.
June 11, 2007
Happy Monday! David Zaring, long-time friend of the Glom, has graciously agreed to guest blog here for two weeks, and we are happy to have him back. David, formerly an assistant professor at Washington & Lee University School of Law, is transitioning this summer to his new post as an assistant professor at Wharton's Legal Studies department. Hopefully, David will tell us more as the week progresses. Welcome!
May 10, 2007
Commenting on Conglomerate just got easier. We have been with TypePad for over two years, and we were on Movable Type for a year and a half before that, so I occasionally discover that we are using outdated code. Such was the case with our comment form. We now have the current code, which allows you to use a TypeKey profile. In any event, it will remember your personal information, which should make commenting easier.
April 05, 2007
We are very pleased to welcome Leandra Lederman, William W. Oliver Professor of Tax Law at Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington, as a guest blogger for the next two weeks. Leandra has written extensively about tax litigation and procedure, including significant empirical work. Her latest piece, which I discussed with her at the AALS Annual Meeting and I hope she blogs about here, relates to Taxing Virtual Worlds. Welcome, Leandra!
March 19, 2007
Last week the NYT announced that TimesSelect was now available gratis with an .edu email address, but it took me awhile to get around to finding the signup page. Go here. Today I was motivated by this piece on the irrelevance of legal scholarship from Adam Liptak, who writes:
Articles in law reviews have certainly become more obscure in recent decades. Many law professors seem to think they are under no obligation to say anything useful or to say anything well. They take pride in the theoretical and in working in disciplines other than their own. They seem to think the analysis of actual statutes and court decisions — which is to say the practice of law — is beneath them.
Yes. And your point? Oh, right ... that blogs are the answer: "On blogs like the Volokh Conspiracy and Balkinization [and Conglomerate], law professors analyze legal developments with skill and flair almost immediately after they happen." (parenthetical added)
UPDATE: Ann has a funny and fitting comeback for the judges:
And on the theory that I've got some judge and law clerk readers, let me put in my request that they write their damned opinions in a quick, plain and accessible style. Because I'm getting pretty weary of their obfuscatory, evasive, rambling scribblings myself. Unfortunately, I don't have the option of just not reading. Their work is imposed on us. Talk about an obligation to say something useful and well!
Touche.
Our guest blogger for the next two weeks got the jump on me and started posting before this lazy Glommer introduced him! Let me give a belated intro for Seth Chandler, Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. Seth writes and teaches in the areas of health law and insurance, to name a few. His SSRN page is here. Welcome, Seth!
March 12, 2007
Attention college basketball fans! Join the 2007 Conglomerate Blog NCAA Basketball Challenge!
For details, see below the fold ...
You will be filling out the brackets anyway, so drop one into our competition. Just click on the link above, and you will be taken to a sign-in page. If you have an account with SportsLine, sign in. If you do not have an account with SportsLine, you need to register.
Once you have signed in, you will need the group password, which is Glom. Completing the brackets couldn't be easier.
The winner will receive a hearty congratulations from me. And perhaps some Wisconsin cheese! (Especially if you pick the Badgers to win it all, as I did!)
February 09, 2007
I have been fairly pre-occupied with my own writing recently, but I should have noticed this ranking of the Top 25 Tax Professors by all-time downloads and new downloads (within the past 12 months), which was posted at TaxProf Blog last week:
Congrats, Vic!
February 01, 2007
Jay Brown from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law has a new blog call "Race to the Bottom," which is a "proSOXblog" -- and, by implication, an "antiDEblog." I can see that we will have plenty to argue about!
In his most recent post, Jay criticizes the Delaware courts for their "inadequate" review of executive compensation and "ranks executive compensation as the #1 area of state corporate governance most likely to be preempted." This argument is a pretty good example of what I was talking about in my post-AALS regarding those who are critical of fiduciary law. You need a theory about what fiduciary law should accomplish before you haul off and claim that it's failing. In my view, regulating the size of executive compensation packages is not on the fiduciary law to-do list, so I'm not sure it makes sense to even think about federal legislation as "preemptive." In any event, Jay has a much longer version of his argument in a paper on SSRN.
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January 12, 2007
Congrats to my colleague, Danny Sokol, who was just added to AntitrustProf Blog with Shubha Ghosh. Danny has an amazing amount of energy and his breadth of knowledge and interests is scary. I always thought he would be a great blogger. Good luck, Danny.
October 17, 2006
I just added a new feature to our sidebar. [UPDATE: The feature has been removed. Check the notes for an explanation.] Wallstrip is a daily show on stocks. You can find an explanation of the concept here. The production style is Rocketboom-esque, but the substance is business. Today's show is on RIMM of Blackberry fame.
Ok, the show is not great, yet, but I like the effort. We'll test it for the next week or so and then make a final decision about whether it will continue to occupy that valuable sidebar real estate. As always, your feedback is most welcome.
October 16, 2006
We are very pleased to have Darian Ibrahim joining us as a guest blogger for the next two weeks. Darian is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law, where I enjoyed visiting him earlier this fall. He is an energetic young scholar, and I am confident that he will have some interesting things to say about corporate law (Disney perhaps?) and law and entrepreneurship. Welcome, Darian!
October 02, 2006
We are very pleased to have Usha Rodrigues with us over the next two weeks. Usha is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, where she teaches courses in Non-Public Business Associations, Contracts, and Business Planning. The most imporant thing that you need to know about Usha, however, is that she is a University of Wisconsin alum. She earned a master’s degree in comparative literature here before going to law school at the University of Virginia. Welcome, Usha!
September 18, 2006
Friends of the Glom are everywhere:
Ronald Mann is guest blogging at Credit Slips on the frequency and fluctuation of bankruptcy filings. Nancy Rapoport has joined MoneyLaw and is blogging on the AALS faculty recruitment conference.
September 13, 2006
I'm a little behind, but here's welcoming two new blogs to the blogosphere:
National Security Advisors, authored by Tung Yin, Bobby Chesney, and Steve Vladeck, who you may have seen around the blogosphere before!
Consumer Law & Policy Blog, authored by law professors and practitioners, including Orly Lobel, Chris Peterson, Richard Alderman, Deepak Gupta, and Jeff Sovern.
August 25, 2006
I am playing hooky the first week of school to travel to Duke University Law School to present my paper "The Undercivilization of Corporate Law." I hope to get great feedback and have a circulation-worthy draft in the next month. So far, the visit has been wonderful. I stayed last night at the amazing Washington Duke hotel and enjoyed a nice walk among the trees over to the Law School. Traveling to southern schools always makes me a little homesick.
August 03, 2006
Here. I'll file this one under "just one of the reasons why it is great to be a junior professor at UIUC." This colloquium, which is only part of the new program, generates a list of great scholars I've always wanted to meet and hear speak -- and they are coming to my school this semester.
July 25, 2006
We are very pleased to welcome Brayden King as a guest blogger on Conglomerate. Brayden is an assistant professor of sociology at BYU (Go Cougars!), and his research focuses on organizational theory, economic sociology, and social movement theory. Brayden is not a law professor, though his interests and ours are closely aligned, as you will see if you read his excellent blog, orgtheory.net (where he blogs with frequent commenter and TDF aficionado Teppo Felin). Welcome, Brayden!
July 07, 2006
If you are here at Law & Society, the folks at Indiana Law School-Bloomington would like to invite you to a reception at McCormick & Schmick's tomorrow night from 6-8:30 p.m. Go eat some snacks on Dean Robel's tab and chat with Bill Henderson, Ken Dau-Schmidt, and their colleagues.
June 21, 2006
Remember that great idea I had to route all of our feeds through Feedburner? Well, it was working reasonably well until this morning. To get our RSS 2.0 feed on board, Typepad told me that I needed to change the output file. Unfortunately, this jettisoned many of our subscribers to the old feed. It's not that I didn't think of that possibility -- and I took some steps to mitigate the damage -- but I didn't go far enough. My sincere apologies to all of those subscribers. Please come back.
The good news is that all of our feeds now run through the new Feedburner feed. At least, I think that's good news. I know that some people like having multiple feeds out there, but I like the simplicity of the Feedburner approach.
UPDATE: More good news! I just received an email from Bloglines, and at least the Bloglines subscribers to that old feed will not be lost to us:
It may take some time for the correct number of Bloglines subscribers to show up on your blog. Please note that all who were subscribed to your previous feed URL (now removed from our system) have automatically been redirected to your main, active feed. This requires no effort on their part; the old feed is simply replaced with the new, valid feed in their Bloglines account.
We have tested this repeatedly, so we know you haven't lost any subscribers. It may take a day for the correct subscription number to update.
Now that's good service. Thanks, Bloglines.
June 15, 2006
If you are a regular here, you may have noticed a new chicklet in our sidebar. FeedBurner enables us to route all of our subscribers through a single feed. For the first time, we will learn how many people are reading Conglomerate via aggregators and which aggregators they are using. The number currently displayed in the chicklet reflects only Atom subscribers. The RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 subscribers should appear with the next update.
Before taking the plunge, I read a number of positive reviews of FeedBurner, but I would be interested in knowing whether I missed something. We are not part of the FeedBurner Ad Network, so you should be receiving our content without advertisements. It seems like a great service.
June 11, 2006
Bloggers don't have a reliable way to track links. We have links in the sidebar to Google Blog Search, IceRocket Blogs, the TTLB Ecosystem, and other services, but my favorite link tracker is Technorati. Still, Technorati is far from perfect.
I have complained about Technorati before, and this week my frustration was building again. The problem is twofold. First, why does our Technorati page say "687 links" to Conglomerate at the top, but "1,017 links from 252 sites" at the bottom? Second, our ranking and number of sites rarely changes, even when we attract lots of new links, as we did last week with Conglomerate Forum: Enron? The Technorati site purports to be updating, but I notice the updates only in the link count at the top. I even took the time last week to write Technorati. No response.
Fred Wilson made similar complaints in a post earlier today, and Technorati CEO Dave Sifray responded almost immediately. (He did that with my complaint last year. He is amazingly responsive. He even put his mobile number in the comment!) According to Dave, Technorati is "the middle of a huge upgrade to our link counts system," and he is confident that this will fix the problem. I hope so.
Here is the part of Dave's comment that baffled me:
To clear up a misunderstanding, however, I want to make it clear that "last updated" is not necesarily the last time we did a full count of your link counts. Please don't confuse your "last updated" time with the last time that we calculated your full link counts. I apologize that sometimes the link counts get "stuck" for a few days (or even weeks in the worst case) at a time, but I hope that we'll be able to win back your confidence when we roll out our improved link counter very shortly.
In the universe of blog maintenance issues, link counts are pretty far down the list. Nevertheless, it would be nice if someone could get it right.
May 23, 2006
We are very pleased to announce the addition of Lisa Fairfax of the University of Maryland School of Law to the Conglomerate masthead. Lisa was a guest blogger here earlier this year, and we persuaded her to join us permanently. Lisa recently was elevated to full professor and appointed Director of the Business Law Program at Maryland. (Congrats on both counts!) She will continue to build on Conglomerate's "deals" expertise, while adding her special interests in corporate crime, non-shareholder constituencies, and director diversity, among other things. Welcome, Lisa!
May 11, 2006
Conglomerate has been on the prowl recently, and we are pleased to announce the acquisition of another permanent blogger: Fred Tung of Emory Law School. We have been reading Fred's guest posts with great interest over the past few weeks, and we are grateful that he has agreed to join us on a permanent basis. Fred brings additional expertise in corporate and securities law, plus lots more expertise in bankruptcy. Welcome, Fred!
April 30, 2006
David Zaring is the latest reader to request that we change our RSS feeds to provide full posts, rather than excerpts. So I have made the change. From this post forward, all posts will appear in full.
Our feeds with excerpted posts have attracted a nice subscription base, and I suspect that some of those readers will be disappointed with the change. On the other hand, David is not the first reader to make this request, and I can see the logic in his preference.
Unfortunately, it appears that Typepad does not give us the option of offering both excerpts and full posts.
April 29, 2006
In our sidebar. Options for keeping track of blogs have multiplied over the past year, and we have not been keeping pace. Today, while sitting in the airport, I did some updating on our sidebar. I am afraid that I overdid it, but I am blaming the Chicklet Creator, which made it too easy.
The point of all of those chicklets, by the way, is to facilitate your access to the content here at Conglomerate. Click on any of them and you will be led to a service that allows you to have our posts sent to your email or collected in an aggregator.
I have been using Bloglines, but if anyone has another favorite, I would be interested to hear recommendations.
UPDATE: Our Atom feed is not updating. I have asked Typepad for assistance. Others have noticed similar problems. If you have a fix, I would owe you a debt of gratitude.
UPDATE UPDATE: Ok, the Atom feed is fixed. My new template was just fine, but I forget to check the box that instructs the feed to update when we save a new post. Ugh!
April 26, 2006
Gordon and Vic are otherwise occupied today with Vic's MasterCard IPO presentation at Harvard, so I'm in charge. I feel like Al Haig. I have no idea what to do with this wicked power.
April 24, 2006
We are very pleased to welcome Fred Tung of Emory Law School to Conglomerate for the next two weeks. Fred and I have been running into each other at conferences for years, and he always has something interesting to throw into the mix. We are looking forward to having him add that here.
April 03, 2006
We are very pleased to welcome Elizabeth Brown to Conglomerate for the next two weeks. Elizabeth is currently an associate professor of law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, where she teaches a solid slate of business courses: Business Associations, Corporate Finance, Law and Economics, and Securities Regulation. She graduated from a fine law school in Chicago and has extensive experience in international business transactions. We are grateful that she has agreed to spend some time with us.
March 20, 2006
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.
We at Conglomerate are very pleased to come back from Spring Break with a brand-new guest blogger. Bobby Bartlett an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. We were attracted by Bobby's practice experience and writing on venture capital, about which we hope to read more over the next two weeks. Welcome, Bobby!
March 13, 2006
I wanted say thanks to Gordon, Christine and Vic for inviting me to guest blog. I also wanted to thank those who have read and given comments on my posts.
March 03, 2006
Today I'm excited to present Regulating Public Morals and Private Markets: Online Securities Trading, Internet Gambling and the Speculation Paradox at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. It's just beautiful here this morning. I wonder how cold it is in Milwaukee?
February 27, 2006
For the next two weeks, the Glom is lucky to have Olufunmilayo Arewa as a guest blogger. Funmi is currently an assistant professor and assistant director for the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts at Case Western Reserve School of Law. However, Funmi has accepted an appointment at Northwestern starting in the Fall. Funmi has had great work experience involving start-ups, venture capital, and the U.S. Foreign Service, so we are very excited to see what she will post on first. Welcome, Funmi!
February 07, 2006
Ronald Mann is the Ben H. & Kitty King Powell Chair in Business and Commercial Law and the Co-Director of the Center for Law, Business, and Economics at the University of Texas School of Law. And for the next two weeks, he will be a guest blogger at Conglomerate. We are thrilled to have him. Welcome, Ron.
February 06, 2006
I'll be blogging overtime this week, keeping up with corporate stuff over here and talking about who knows what in a guest stint over at Concurring Opinions with Dan, Dave & Kaimi. Think Brooke Shields guesting on Friends.
January 29, 2006
We are pleased to welcome Lisa Fairfax to our stable of guest bloggers. Lisa is a prolific corporate law scholar from the University of Maryland, where she teaches courses in Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Unincorporated Business Entities and Contracts. Lisa is one of our favorite people to see at conferences, and we are grateful that she will be spending the next two weeks with us here. Welcome, Lisa!
January 23, 2006
We are very pleased to welcome Mike Dorff of Southwestern Law School as a guest blogger. He has recently published an interesting article in the Journal of Corporation Law entitled "Does One Hand Wash the Other? Testing the Managerial Power and Optimal Contracting Theories of Executive Compensation." Given the SEC's recent proposal on executive compensation disclosure, Mike's appearance here is very timely. Mike has written on a range of topics relating to corporate law and law and economics, so I expect that he will venture beyond executive compensation. We look forward to reading his posts.