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Do the Redskins deserve an antitrust exemption?

Posted on January 14, 2010
The Supreme Court is considering a request from the NFL for a form of antitrust exemption. In light of this, I thought I'd link to a prior post in which I asked whether Chief Wahoo deserves an antitrust exemption. SJP

Is this business judgment?

Posted on January 14, 2010
At the first hearing of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission yesterday, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said a crucial blunder was "how we just missed that housing prices don't go up forever." I don't actually believe...

Introducing Guest Blogger Tracy Houston

Posted on January 14, 2010
Tracy Houston will be joining us as a guest blogger for the next month or so. Tracy is a board consultant and I look forward to reading about her perspective on various corporate governance topics. Her LinkedIn page is here,...

Backer on Corporate Legal Theory

Posted on January 13, 2010
Larry Cata Backer has posted The Drama of the Corporate Law: Narrator Between Citizen, State and Corporation on SSRN with the following abstract: The allure of a narrative of business law continues to prove irresistible. It is even more so...

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Joo on Corporate Legal Theory

Posted on January 13, 2010
Thomas Wuil Joo has posted Narrative, Myth and Morality in Corporate Legal Theory on SSRN with the following abstract: This article, prepared for the Michigan State Law Review's "Business Law and Narrative" symposium, analyzes corporate legal theory's use of myth...

Lambert on Insider Trading

Posted on January 13, 2010
Thomas A. Lambert has posted A Middle Ground on Insider Trading on SSRN with the following abstract: The debate over insider trading usually proceeds in all-or-nothing terms: either all insider trading should be permitted by law or none should. This....

Bankers and Bebchuk on Compensation

Posted on January 13, 2010
Chief executives from top banks are on Capitol Hill today, testifying in an inquiry into what caused the financial crisis. Although I am sure that they are not that keen on discussing compensation, they faced questioning on that topic. Indeed...

Still Hazy After All These Years

Posted on January 12, 2010
Part of the call for reform in the wake of the financial crisis has sounded in the yearning for agency consolidation. But mergers of regulatory entities, even undertaken in quiet times, can be painfully slow ordeals. Take, for example, the...

Tough Times Ahead for the CFPA...

Posted on January 12, 2010
The reform bill passed by the House before Christmas (H.R. 4173) would establish a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. As was noted at the time of its approval, the CFPA's jurisdiction would not reach entities regulated by the S.E.C. or...

The Wall Street Bonus Fairy Comes This Week...

Posted on January 11, 2010
?even though corporate America hasn?t lost any teeth. And the money expected to be left under the pillow, by all estimates, shall be breathtaking. Apart from the inherent unfairness of a select class being gifted so much in these troubled...

Speaking of Credit Rating Agencies

Posted on January 11, 2010
Since Scott's post from earlier today brought up the problem of credit rating agencies, I thought I'd mention that Chris Sagers and Thomas James Fitzpatrick IV have posted the following abstract and related article on SSRN. During the past forty...

Sundahl on Export Controls on Space Technology

Posted on January 11, 2010
Mark Sundahl has posted Export Controls and Human Spaceflight: A New Age of Reason? on SSRN with the following abstract: Export controls on space technology are notoriously strict in the United States, where all space technology is deemed to be...

Letsou on Corporate Governance

Posted on January 10, 2010
Peter V. Letsou has posted the following abstract and related article on SSRN: Since the 1930s, the United States federal government and the individual states have shared the responsibility for regulating the governance of public corporations. In general, the states...

Gross and Pekarek on the Bank Broker-Dealer Rule

Posted on January 10, 2010
Jill Gross and Edward Pekarek have posted the following abstract and the related article on SSRN: This article evaluates the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority?s (FINRA) proposal to adopt a modified version of NASD Rule 2350, known as the ?bank broker-dealer...

FCPA Professor Blog

Posted on January 09, 2010
Although I have my reservations about advertising the competition, the blogosphere contains many interesting business-related blogs. As a recurring feature on the Business Law Prof Blog, we will feature some of these blogs that we recommend that you check out...

Thinking by Blogging: Limited Liability as Taking

Posted on January 09, 2010
When I say I am "thinking by blogging", I mean that I am posting something while being fully aware of the fact that: (1) it may already have been said numerous times before, or worse (2) it may already have...

Senator Dodd's Retirement and Financial Reform in the Senate

Posted on January 08, 2010
Senator Christopher Dodd has announced that he will not run for re-election in November. As chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd wields significant influence over the quality and character of any new financial regulations Congress may pass. Had Dodd...

Henderson on the Materiality of Climate Change

Posted on January 07, 2010
Gail Henderson has posted the following abstract on SSRN: Investor groups in both Canada and the U.S. have petitioned the Ontario Securities Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue statements clarifying the application of existing disclosure requirements to...

Law School Poker

Posted on January 07, 2010
I just arrived in NOLA for the AALS annual meeting. I am definitely looking forward to a number of the presentations. I am also hoping to squeeze in a couple of hands of Hold 'Em at the Harrah's poker room...

Executive Compensation and Special Master Kenneth Feinberg

Posted on January 06, 2010
When Kenneth Feinberg was the special master in charge of the 9/11 Victim?s Compensation Fund, he faced the challenge of making difficult decisions in an emotionally charged public setting. Yet, he was operating within the familiar conceptual framework of mass...

E-Piracy and the Publishing Industry

Posted on January 06, 2010
Recently, I've been fascinated by the illegal downloading of e-books. Although the e-book industry has been booming in recent months, e-book piracy has been booming as well. For example, Matt Frisch of CNN reports that within days of the release...

Congress puts SIPC back on the table...

Posted on January 05, 2010
The scandals and Ponzi schemes of recent times have re-focused attention on the notoriously underfunded Securities Investor Protection Corporation. Back in March of 2008, the Treasury Blueprint, which was criticized as too political of a schematic for meaningful regulatory reform,...

Our unflagging affection for the Dow...

Posted on January 05, 2010
My first rock concert featured "Chicago," the '70s super-group that meshed guitars, horns and the feel-good sentiments of the times. The highlight of the show was a 3-minute piece of pop rhetoric titled "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It...

Hello/On SEC "Civil" Actions

Posted on January 04, 2010
Welcome to the Business Law Prof Blog. As someone who's taught Securities Regulation at the law school level since 2000, I look forward to sharing ideas on the subject. I'll be posting here on Mondays and Tuesdays each week. One...

Hello World

Posted on January 03, 2010
In addition to Stefan's words of welcome yesterday, I would also like to add a few of my my own. Thanks to Paul Caron and Joe Hodnicki for inviting us to join the Law Professor Blogs Network. I am a...

Welcome to the Grand Re-Opening of the Business Law Prof Blog

Posted on January 02, 2010
I'll be posting here Saturdays and Thursdays. To get a taste of the type of things I'll be writing about you can check out some of my posts from the past year over at the Akron Law Cafe. My general...

Resources - Business Laws

Posted on December 31, 2009
Securities Lawyer's Deskbook ... Securities Exchange Act of 1933 ... Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Sarbanes-Oxley Act Annotated Sarbanes-Oxley Act (pdf) Sarbanes-Oxley Rules & Regs Updates Findlaw's State Corporate Codes & Regs Findlaw's State Guide to Corporations Offices Uniform Laws...

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