Today, for reasons both technological and political, there is an increasing divergence and growing conflict between U.S. and foreign laws that compel, and prohibit, production of data in response to governmental surveillance directives.[1][2]  Major U.S. telecommunications and Internet providers[3] face escalating pressure from foreign governments, asserting foreign law, to require production of data stored by the providers in the United States, in ways that violate U.S. law.[4]  At the… [read post]

Trends expected to support healthcare M&A in 2023 include (1) the looming patent cliff (in which approximately $230 billion worth of pharmaceutical revenue will lose patent protection before the end of the decade), (2) pharmaceutical and medical device companies with healthy balance sheets and capacity to take on new debt and (3) the continual drive to innovate, evidenced, for example, by forays by retailers and tech companies into the healthcare sector (including CVS Health’s $8… [read post]

  A capacious and relatively empty vessel, "Elements of Law" can permit a faculty member with enough energy and interest fill it with something perhaps new and innovative, or it might provide a space to fill with vapid and duplicative of aspects drawn from the rest of the conventional first year curriculum. [read post]

I have recently posted (here) about the third edition of the Brussels Global Law Week to be held from 15 to 19 of May 2017 and hosted by the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy (Université libre de Bruxelles Faculty of Law) Posted below is the text of my remarks, Transnational Legal Orders and Global Regulatory Networks, to be delivered as part of the 2017 Global Law Week and the International Francqui Symposium on Global and Transnational Law Today. [read post]