BA Summer Reading: Independent directors (May 24, 2013)

Some interesting cases on the duties of independent directors coming out of Delaware...I have yet to read either of them,... (Category: Business Organizations, Delaware)

Michael Piwowar To Take Over For Troy Paredes At The SEC (May 24, 2013)

Congratulations to Michael Piwowar and Kara Stein, the two senate staffers nominated to the SEC today, but we at the... (Category: Administrative Law, Securities)

LSA Happy Hour - at the Sheraton on Saturday at 9 (May 24, 2013)

For those going to Law and Society, there's a Saturday happy hour, co-organized by Prawfsblawg, at the Sheraton hotel bar... (Category: Law & Society)

Vic Fleischer on the Apple Rule (May 23, 2013)

The late Larry Ribstein coined the phrase "the Apple Rule" when Apple seemed to be the only corporation engaged in... (Category: Taxation)

The Law and Economics of Tornado Shelters (and Angelina Jolie) (May 23, 2013)

Here is my disclaimer: I'm from "tornado alley." Here is "my tornado." The Lubbock tornado was 43 years ago (gulp),... (Category: Law & Economics)

Mercantilism In International Finance (May 22, 2013)

In a trade-in-services dispute that looks quite a bit like pre-WTO trade in goods disputes, Indonesia is conditioning the sale... (Category: Finance, Financial Institutions, Globalization/Trade)

Buffett Symposium At Concurring Opinions (May 20, 2013)

Coinciding with Con-Op's Larry Cunningham's book of essays on Warren Buffett, said blog has put together a pretty stellar set... (Category: Books, Business Organizations)

The IRS Scandal: Does It Fit With The IRS Weltanschauung? (May 17, 2013)

This is not the place to go for careful consideration of tax policy, but we do know something here about... (Category: Administrative Law, Taxation)

Wading into the Bloomberg Data Breach (May 16, 2013)

There have been a number of weird news stories this week, so the Bloomberg terminal data breach scandal may not... (Category: Securities)

Political Science Hires A Lobbyist: Can Rational Actor Models Permit This? (May 16, 2013)

Given some recent unpleasantness over federal grant funding, it won't surprise everyone that the American Political Science Association has hired... (Category: Administrative Law, Politics)

What Libertarians Worry About When They Worry About Bank Regulation (May 15, 2013)

The British government has praised the development of the Co-operative Bank, a member-owned institution that looks a little like an... (Category: Finance, Financial Institutions)

How Many IPOs Should We Have Each Year? How Do You Know? (May 15, 2013)

The titular questions have been swirling in the back of my head for the past month or so. Spoiler alert:... (Category: Finance, IPOs, Securities)

Colin Mayer Is Against Shareholder-Oriented Governance (May 14, 2013)

Over at HBR, Mayer, the former dean of the Said Business School at Oxford, decries British best-in-breed corporate governance. A... (Category: Business Organizations, Corporate Governance)

Family Film Blogging: Iron Man 3 (May 14, 2013)

Yes, Iron Man 3 has been out 10 days or so, but I couldn't blog about it until now because... (Category: Film)

Delaware Public Benefit Corporations: Branding (May 13, 2013)

Cross-posted at SocEntLaw. This is my third and final substantive post comparing the Model Benefit Corporation Legislation (the “Model”) to... (Category: Business Organizations, Law & Entrepreneurship)