Corporate & Securities Law

Rewarding Gatekeepers

Posted on January 29, 2008
The latest Minnesota Law Review incldues an interesting article by Larry Cunningham, Beyond Liability: Rewarding Effective Gatekeepers, which argues that the law can and should adopt a carrots approach to corporate gatekeeprs in addition to the existing stocks model: The expanding interest in positive incentives for capital market gatekeepers dovetails with a broader and older trend in the regulation literature...

Pileggi Reviews 2007

Posted on January 29, 2008
Francis Pileggi offers up his (third annual) review of the leading Delaware corporate and commercial cases of 2007. It’s a tremendously useful crib sheet.

Pre-Merger Insider Trading

Posted on January 29, 2008
Obviously, one can significantly increase takeover profits if one knows in advance that a takeover will be forthcoming. If you know of an impending bid prior to its announcement, you can buy up stock at the low pre-announcement price and sell or tender at the higher post-announcement price...

Gordon Gekko?s Insider Trading Lessons

Posted on January 29, 2008

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Spanking Students (Figuratively)

Posted on January 28, 2008
Duke political science chair Michael Munger reports the following exchange on his blog: I am lecturing in the course John Aldrich and I are co-teaching. Student in front row (in FRONT ROW!) is holding up newspaper in front of his face. People behind him crane around to try to see...

Most Overrated Law Schools?

Posted on January 28, 2008
Penn, Cornell, and Georgetown.

Law School Alumni Support

Posted on January 28, 2008
From the National Law Journal: Top law schools are reporting record-breaking donations that are helping to cover tuition costs, hire faculty and promote public interest programs. But in the world of fundraising, apparently it’s never enough. ....

Moren v. Jax Restaurant

Posted on January 28, 2008
I’m about to go teach Moren v. Jax Restaurant in Business Associations. I found two interesting resources that others who teach the case may want to explore. First, a website that has a cartoon about the case (with a hefty price for using it). Second, the website of the plaintiffs’ law firm, with details about the case, pictures of the deadly pizza machine, and information about the verdict and settlement...

Ken Klee Named to Top 500 Lawyer List

Posted on January 25, 2008
Congratulations to my friend and UCLA colleague Ken Klee for being one of only 9 law professors named by The Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America: The master of disaster has kept a low profile the last few years preparing the definitive look at Supreme Court bankruptcy jurisprudence, building on his work for Boston Chicken, First Trust and Bank of New York...

Drezner on Sovereign Wealth Funds

Posted on January 24, 2008
This summer somebody is going to write a great law review article on sovereign wealth funds. It won’t be me. I’ve got books to write. But some pup will. When they do so, they should check out Dan Drezner’s brief take. Money quote: There are some foreign policy reasons to be concerned about some sovereign wealth funds—but I don’t see any economic motivation to get all riled up about them...

2008 Casebook Update

Posted on January 24, 2008
Users of the Klein, Ramseyer & Bainbridge case book can now download a Spring 2008 update and accompanying teacher’s notes from our web site: www.business-associations.com. You’ll need a password if you don’t already have one, for which you can apply here...

Labor Pension Fund Activism

Posted on January 23, 2008
Eugene Scalia opines in the WSJ: A recent University of Chicago study showed that union-affiliated funds do indeed systematically exercise their proxies to support labor objectives rather than simply to increase shareholder value. This was already evident in unions’ statements about their shareholder power, in corporate campaigns such as the attempted ouster of Safeway’s leadership during its 2004 labor dispute, and the refusal of some union health and welfare plans to do business with Wal-Mart, despite its low prescription drug prices...

Stoneridge Podcast

Posted on January 22, 2008
The Federalist Society announces: On January 15, 2008 the Supreme Court decided the Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific Atlanta case. In a securities law case of paramount importance, the Court was asked to consider under what (if any) circumstances private investors can sue actors – whether accountants, lawyers, financial advisors or other businesses – that allegedly participate in a scheme to violate Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934...

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