Deals Class Goes Online (September 19, 2012)

Our friend Karl Okamoto (Drexel) has transformed his innovative Transactional Competition (a moot court for aspiring deal lawyers) into an... (Category: Teaching, Technology)

Weekend Reading: A Transactional Genealogy of Scandal (September 07, 2012)

As in a bad horror movie (or a great Rolling Stones song), observers of the current crisis may have been... (Category: Accounting, Bankruptcy, Business Organizations, Corporate Law, Economics, Enron, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Innovation, Legal History, Legal Scholarship, Securities, Transactional Law, White Collar Crime)

Weekend Reading: Contracts in Hollywood (August 31, 2012)

I am getting ready to teach MGM v. Scheider next week in Contracts. The case (347 N.Y.S.2d. 755) involves whether... (Category: Contracts, Economics, Empirical Legal Studies, Film, Legal Scholarship)

Rethinking the Revolving Door: SEC enforcement (August 21, 2012)

One of the main concerns in the literature on regulatory capture and the "revolving door" has been that regulators will... (Category: Administrative Law, Securities)

CSR: Masters Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility: the Complete Posts (August 17, 2012)

Thank you to our Masters for two days of provocative and insightful posts on what the Chick-fil-A controversy means for... (Category: Administrative, Masters: CSR)

CSR: The Chick-fil-A Controversy and a Masters Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (August 16, 2012)

We have decided to convene a late summer forum of the Conglomerate Masters -- our roster of distinguished corporate and... (Category: Administrative, Business Ethics, Business Organizations, Businesses of Note, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Current Affairs, Masters: CSR, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility)

Call for Papers Deadline Extended (August 08, 2012)

The deadline for the Call for Papers for the AALS Joint-Program of the Securities Regulation and Financial Institutions/Consumer Financial Services... (Category: AALS, Calls for Papers)

Deadline Approaching for Call for Papers: AALS Securities Regulation/Financial Institutions &Consumer Financial Services Program (August 01, 2012)

A friendly reminder that the AALS Program for the Securities Regulation and Financial Institutions/Consumer Financial Services Sections is fast approaching.... (Category: AALS, Calls for Papers, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Securities)

Positions at Suffolk Law (July 23, 2012)

From our friends in Boston... SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL in Boston invites applications for several tenure track positions starting in... (Category: Teaching)

Call for Papers: AALS Annual Mtg - Sections on Securities Regulation and Financial Institutions & Consumer Financial Services (May 07, 2012)

Call for Papers AALS Joint Program of the Securities Regulation Section and Financial Institutions & Consumer Financial Services Section The... (Category: AALS, Calls for Papers, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Junior Scholars, Legal Scholarship, Securities)

Lawyers as Transaction Cost Engineers in Medieval Germany (May 02, 2012)

Here is a highly productive way for business law professors to procrastinate from grading exams: The National Bureau of Economic... (Category: Economic Development, Europe, Globalization/Trade, Law & Economics, Law & Society, Law Schools/Lawyering, Legal History, Religion, Teaching, Transactional Law)

JOBS Act Forum: Frank Gehry, flashy architecture, and bad engineering (April 25, 2012)

The architecture of the JOBS Act is very Frank Gehry – it flaunts its flashy surfaces for cheap crowd-pleasing thrills... (Category: Forum: JOBS Act, Securities)

JOBS Act Forum: Regulatory Stimulus: More Politics than Evidence (April 23, 2012)

The JOBS Act seems to serve as a textbook of example of regulatory stimulus, in which politicians seek to jumpstart... (Category: Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Forum: JOBS Act, Securities)

Tulane Law seeks VAP (March 06, 2012)

Tulane Law School is currently accepting applications for a two-year position of visiting assistant professor. The position is being supported... (Category: Junior Scholars, Law Schools/Lawyering)

Credit Derivatives, Leverage, and Financial Regulation’s Missing Macroeconomic Dimension (February 10, 2012)

The 2011 symposium edition of the Berkeley Business Law Journal on Dodd-Frank is out. I would like to thank the... (Category: Economics, Finance, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Law & Economics, Legal Scholarship, SSRN)