Law Roundtable

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The European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) weighed in today on the potential value of shareholder engagement in response to the European Commission's Green Paper on Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions and Remuneration Policies. The EFRP concluded that voluntary shareholder...

Late last week, the SEC obtained a court Order authorizing "emergency action" against two Spanish nationals (a research analyst and a brokerage customer) who allegedly engaged in insider trading in Potash Corporation (an NYSE stock) through purchases of options on...

The Delaware Chancery court issued an opinion on August 2 in Lola Cars International, Ltd. v. Krohn Racing, LLC (pdf) that provides a detailed example of how things can go wrong in a joint venture. The eighty-four page opinion provides...

If your thing is business law, then you've likely been quite busy recently. Please allow me to remind you that it is important to maintain a healthy balance in your life, including spending time with loved ones, getting plenty of...

The AALS Annual Meeting bulletin arrived in my mailbox today, reconfirming that curricular reform, new forms of assessment, and the need to bring skills into the class are hardly new topics of conversation for most faculties. From the Carnegie Report...

Lisa Fairfax has a nice summary here. She highlights what I think has to be one of the money quotes from the release:[C]orporate governance is not merely a matter of private ordering. Rights, including shareholder rights, are artifacts of law,...

I've been toying with the idea of replacing casebooks with the popular "Examples & Explanations" study guides in at least a few of my classes. Why? Because the study guides are significantly less expensive and more likely to be used...

Yesterday, I taught Business Associations I for the first time this semester, and today I begin Labor and Employment Law. Despite the name, that latter course is primarily an employment law course that provides an introduction to the NLRA and...

This is no doubt the regulatory season for broad strokes. Emphasis has been placed on entities so large as to be "systemically significant;" a whole nation has seen its sovereign debt downgraded. And, as was recently publicized, the State of...