Law Roundtable

Item 1: "How to Get Attorneys to Read Something: E-Mail Them Telling Them Not to" Item 2: "Securities and Banking Industries Urge Senate to Retain Fed Regulatory Powers" SJP

Dear Readers, It turns out a number of you have been commenting on our posts. I was completely unaware of this till yesterday. (The secret is out, I actually don't read every word of every email / attachment / instruction...

Dear Readers, It turns out a number of you have been commenting on our posts. I was completely unaware of this till yesterday. (The secret is out, I actually don't read every word of every email / attachment / instruction...

Josh Fershee has kindly accepted our offer to join us as one of our co-editors. The list of Blog Editors should be amended shortly. Onwards and upwards! SJP

While Lions Gate is considering a move from Canada, a North Dakota pasta company is considering a merger with a Canadian suitor. Dakota Growers Pasta Co. is the third largest pasta company in the United States and has about 1000...

Joan MacLeod Heminway has posted The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Securities Regulation Scholarship and Teaching in the Global Financial Crisis on SSRN with the following abstract: This short piece is an annotated version of remarks that I...

The very name suggests a return to more stable economic times. The text condemns a practice that, for better or worse, has added liquidity to many domestic markets. To ban "proprietary trading" (transactions for a company's own trading book) among...

Last week, I wrote, “A shareholder move seeking a greater voice in corporate governance seems proper to me because it is about the exercise of ownership rights.” Professor Bainbridge disagreed (although he did concede that shareholders’ residual claim on the...

This past Friday, I was fortunate enough to take part in a full-day discussion of the government's responses to the continuing economic crisis. Hosted by The Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development of the St. John's University School of...

Erez Reuveni has updated his draft of Extraterritoriality as Standing: A Standing Theory of the Extraterritorial Application of the Securities Laws on SSRN. The draft includes the following abstract: This Article contends that the current treatment of the extraterritorial scope...