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Law & Business
Notice to Users of Business-Associations.com
Law teachers who are trying to use Business-Associations.com, the website for the Klein, Ramseyer & Bainbridge Business Associations' case book, but have had problems getting a password, are advised to check their spam filters. We've had a number of reports of …Continue Reading...
Impact of SOX on US Listings
From FEI's Section 404 Blog, which is a very useful resource for all thing Sarbanes-Oxley:... a new study by Professor Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago, who happens to be a member of the 'Paulson Committee," has found: "[the] premium …Continue Reading...
Resources for Business Associations Teachers and Students
Sample multiple choice exam with answers. Audio lectures of Fall 2006 classes and PowerPoint slides.
Blogging and Scholarship
Paul Caron has posted Are Scholars Better Bloggers?, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. ___ (2007), which is his Introduction to the Symposium on Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship held at Harvard Law School on April 28, 2006, on SSRN …Continue Reading...
Books on Investing
Jonathan Clements reviews and recommends 5 books on personal investing: Curiously, he omits what I regard as THE fundamental treatise on personal investing of our era: Burton Malkiel's Random Walk Down Wall Street.
Unions, Executive Pay, and Management Entrenchment
Unions have been among the most prominent critics of high executive compensation. The AFL-CIO, for example, has devoted an entire website - Executive PayWatch - to the issue. A casual observer might assume that union campaigning against executive pay is simply …Continue Reading...
Faith-Based Investing
Most mutual fund investors are familiar with the concept of socially responsible investing (a.k.a. values-based investing). A small chunk of that industry sector is comprised of faith-based investment funds, such as the Ave Maria funds that base their investment decisions on …Continue Reading...
The Blue Fund
Jane Galt evaluates the Blue Fund, "which invests only in companies that give the majority of their political contributions to Democratic candidates and adhere to progressive values" (CNN). Politics aside, both basic economic theory and tons of empirical evidence tell us …Continue Reading...
Punditry
Rick Sander on Affirmative Action by law Firms
The NYT reports on a study by my UCLA law school colleague Rick Sander:Thanks to vigorous recruiting and pressure from corporate clients, black lawyers are well represented now among new associates at the nation’s most prestigious law firms. But they remain …Continue Reading...
If not Harman or Hastings, Who?
It turns out Glenn Greenwald was right on at least one thing about the Pelosi-Harman fight: "Pelosi need not select Hastings if she rejects Harman." Reportedly, Pelosi has decided that neither Jane Harman nor Alcee Hastings will chair the House Intelligence …Continue Reading...
Sullivan the Neologist
There's a blogosphere kerfuffle raging between Ann Althouse and Glenn Reynolds, among others, and Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan, among others, over Sullivan's use of the term Christianist. In Sullivan's latest post, he opines:[Christianist] is an attempt to reclaim Christianity from …Continue Reading...
Dennis Prager goes off the Rails re Keith Ellison
Columnist Dennis Prager:Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran. He should not be allowed …Continue Reading...
Reforming the Supreme Court
Law profs Nelson Lund and Craig Lerner have four ideas for how Congress could reform the Supreme Court: Take away their law clerks. Each justice now has a personal staff of several top law-school graduates who serve for one year. These …Continue Reading...
Catholic Judges
Frank-Paul Sampino is a blogger, a member of the Class of 2007 at the University of Pennsylvania, and an assistant editor at online Catholic magazine Dappled Things. He is currently working as an intern at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. His …Continue Reading...
Using YouTube to Chase Ambulances
Criminal defense lawyer Allison Margolin (Harvard law 2002; I wonder if she took my Corporations class when I visited Harvard in 2001?) has posted a pretty slick 3 minute video advertising her services to YouTube. (HT: LAObserved, which notes that "The …Continue Reading...
Bain*Mart
Jane Galt's got her very own store - The Jane Galt Line. She explains:As long time readers know, now is the time of year when I engage in an absolutely shameless attempt to encourage you to earn me money from my …Continue Reading...