Bruner’s Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World (April 29, 2013)

Hot off the presses comes a stimulating way to start the summer for corporate law professors. Cambridge recently published Christopher... (Category: Books, Comparative Law, Corporate Law)

Call for Papers: Crowdfunding Conf. at CU Boulder - Business School (April 10, 2013)

Crowdfunding and its implications for the entrepreneurial ecosystem: Setting the research agenda Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado –... (Category: Calls for Papers, Securities)

Surveying All Contracts Professors (March 07, 2013)

The Washington Law Review is devoting a symposium issue this fall to Larry Cunningham's new book Contracts in the Real... (Category: Contracts)

A Shadow Banking Scholarship Sampler (February 08, 2013)

A small sampling of recent legal scholarship on "shadow banking" (a topic of I've written about myself): Chrystin Ondersma (Rutgers... (Category: Bankruptcy, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Legal Scholarship)

Pildes on the Legal Academy and the Temptations of Power (February 07, 2013)

Richard Pildes (NYU) recently posted on ssrn a thoughtful book chapter that confronts law professors with a series of tough... (Category: Law Schools/Lawyering, Legal Scholarship)

Q&A with Frank Partnoy on 'What's Inside America's Banks" (January 22, 2013)

In the recent edition of The Atlantic, Frank Partnoy (law & finance professor at the Univ. of San Diego who... (Category: Accounting, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Securities)

The Business Lawyer seeks submissions (January 12, 2013)

A message for those business law scholars and practitioners seeking a well respected, peer-reviewed home for their scholarship: The Editorial... (Category: Legal Scholarship)

Basel Gives A Banks a Long Breather (January 09, 2013)

One of the many headlines out of Basel this past week was that the Basel Committee is delaying the final... (Category: Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions)

Judge on Interbank Discipline (November 27, 2012)

Is market discipline dead? Market discipline as a means to check the systemic risk posed by financial institutions was very... (Category: Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Legal Scholarship)

The JOBS Act, Rethinking Transaction Exemptions, and Schwartz’s Life Cycle Approach (November 25, 2012)

Post-JOBS Act, where do all the various transaction exemptions – Reg. D., Reg. A, the new crowdfunding exemption -- fit... (Category: Securities)

2012 Books for your Favorite Corporate and Financial Law Aficionado (November 24, 2012)

Here are a few gift suggestions culled from books published this year if your special someone is a lawyer who... (Category: Books, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Crime and Criminal Law, Law & Economics)

Thought for Food (November 23, 2012)

A few links to tide you over during your tryptophan-induced torpor: Many law faculty dream (or so I’ve heard) of... (Category: Books, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Financial Institutions, Law & Society, Law Schools/Lawyering, Music, Wisdom and Virtue)

Grateful (November 22, 2012)

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Shadow Banking System Grows as FSB Issues New Recommendations to Tame It (November 19, 2012)

Yesterday, while the world was busy watching football of one shape or another, the Financial Stability Board issued a series... (Category: Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions)

The Office of Financial Research Gets No Lovin’ (November 17, 2012)

It took President Obama a while to nominate a candidate for the inaugural Director of the Office of Financial Research.... (Category: Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions)