My Last Post: "Capstone" courses (March 03, 2008)

I've reached the end of my visit. I want to thank again everyone here at the Conglomerate. It remains my... (Category: Law Schools/Lawyering)

Influential Corporate and Securities Law Cases (March 02, 2008)

Steve Bainbridge and Larry Ribstein have differing suggestions on the most influential of all corporate law cases. After Bainbridge first... (Category: Corporate Law)

Efficiency, distribution, and politics (February 29, 2008)

Corporate law scholars overwhelmingly posit efficiency as the measure of the effectiveness of legal rules when doing normative analysis. They... (Category: Law & Economics)

More on Caremark (February 28, 2008)

In my previous post on Caremark, I argued that the court deliberately made liability highly unlikely--it was seeking to influence... (Category: )

Gerla on Caremark (February 25, 2008)

Over at the Race to the Bottom, Harry Gerla has had several posts on the failed Caremark revolution. The premise... (Category: Fiduciary Duties)

Perspectives on the Law (February 22, 2008)

One other course we are adding to the first year (this one as an elective, also to be offered in... (Category: )

The Work of the Lawyer (February 21, 2008)

One thing that has kept me busy over the past year or so is a fairly substantial reform of the... (Category: )

Happy to be back (February 20, 2008)

Thank you, Conglomerate Borg-like entity, for having me back, and thanks Vic for the welcome post which reminds me how... (Category: Law Schools/Lawyering)

Thank you (February 21, 2005)

This is the end of my two-week run. I want to thank Gordon and Christine very much for inviting me... (Category: Administrative)

President Carter (February 17, 2005)

Via Kevin Drum, I see that folks at the NRO Corner are having a good time making fun of the... (Category: Politics)

Securities Offering Reform (February 16, 2005)

I haven't seen much discussion of the SEC's Securities Offering Reform proposal. I am thinking about it now as I... (Category: Securities)

Benefits of SOX? (February 15, 2005)

Corporate lawyers, directors, and scholars sympathetic to those groups have made much of the costs of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which... (Category: Corporate Governance)

Thoughts on Lateral Hiring and Look-sees (February 14, 2005)

First, welcome to my co-clerk Vic Fleischer. It's great to be sharing a blog with him for a week. Now,... (Category: Law Schools/Lawyering)

Ribstein on The Aviator (February 11, 2005)

In noting my earlier posts (here and here) on his paper on business and films, Larry Ribstein points out that... (Category: Popular Culture)

Capitalist Manifesto (February 10, 2005)

Steve Bainbridge has a response to my previous post on public pension funds. I had argued that public pension funds... (Category: Corporate Governance)

Corporations and the Oscars (February 10, 2005)

In my previous post I discussed Larry Ribstein's paper on films and firms. Although I am not fully convinced by... (Category: Popular Culture)

Ribstein on Film (February 10, 2005)

Larry Ribstein recently posted on the bad business sense of Hollywood filmmakers. This post relates to a draft paper he... (Category: Corporate Governance)

Limits on Class Actions (February 09, 2005)

Law and Entrepreneurship News notes that Congress is nearing action on a bill to limit class action suits. I can't... (Category: Law & Economics)

Does Corporate Law Do Anything? (February 09, 2005)

Michael Klausner has posted a nice, very brief (5 pages! 3 footnotes! Is he really a law professor?) article on... (Category: Corporate Governance)

Public and union pension funds (February 08, 2005)

California's governor is suggesting reform of the public pension system in a way that over time could seriously reduce the... (Category: Corporate Governance)

The SEC Gets It Doubly Wrong on Shareholder Access (February 08, 2005)

Earlier today Christine noted a WSJ article on the state of the SEC's proposed shareholder nomination rule. The SEC has... (Category: Securities)

Criteria for Corporate Law (February 07, 2005)

Thank you very much to Gordon and Christine for allowing me to guest blog. I enjoyed each of their earlier... (Category: Corporate Governance)