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Legal Theory Blog
Legal Theory Blog
Covers constitutional theory, feminist legal theory, law and economics, normative legal theory and more. By University of Illinois Professor Lawrence B. Solum.
http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/
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May 25
Kovvali on Seminole Rock Reform
Kovvali on Seminole Rock ReformAneil Kovvali (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) has posted Context-Specific Seminole Rock Reform (Florida State University Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Under Bowles v. Seminole Rock, courts will defer to an… -
May 25
Bustamante on Postema & Dworkin on Interpretation
Bustamante on Postema & Dworkin on InterpretationThomas Bustamante (Federal University of Minas Gerais (Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)) has posted Revisiting the Idea of Protestant Interpretation: Towards Reconciliation between Dworkin and Postema on SSRN. Here is the abstract:… -
May 25
Allan on the Hart-Devlin Debate
Allan on the Hart-Devlin DebateJames Allan (The University of Queensland - T.C. Beirne School of Law) has posted Revisiting the Hart-Devlin Debate on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The article reconsiders the Hart-Devlin debate. It begins with some peripheral observations not…
Rank this Week: 19
Point of Law Forum
Point of Law Forum
Provides information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system. By the Manhattan Institute and AEI Liability Project. Contributors include Professors Michael Krauss, David Bernstein, Lester Brickman, Michael DeBow, Richard Epstein, Daniel P. Kessler and Stephen Presser.
http://www.pointoflaw.com/
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Nov 27
Chairman Schapiro's Troubled Tenure at the SEC
Chairman Schapiro's Troubled Tenure at the SECChairman Schapiro announced yesterday that she will be stepping down as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in several weeks. Accompanying her announcement, was a nine-page list of her accomplishments during her nearly… -
Nov 26
The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia StoryThe success of trial lawyers in Philadelphia has come at the expense of the Pennsylvania economy. Our own Jim Copland explains in an op-ed and at great detail in Trial Lawyers Inc. - Philadelphia.... -
Nov 25
Senator-elect Warren's Quandary
Senator-elect Warren's QuandaryThere has been a lot of speculation about whether Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren will get a seat on the Senate Banking Committee, a perfect forum to go after the financial industry. If Ms. Warren does get the coveted spot, she may...
Rank this Week: 92
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Covers federal and state laws and cases affecting non-profits. Edited by David A. Brennen, Darryll K. Jones, Johnny Rex Buckles, John D. Colombo, Susan N. Gary, Vaughn E. James, Thomas A. Kelley III, Lloyd H. Mayer, Nancy A. McLaughlin, Nicholas A. Mirkay, Karla W. Simon, Sophie E. Smyth, Alice M. Thomas, Elaine Waterhouse Wilson, and Miranda Perry Fleischer.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/
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May 10
Historical abuses of incorporation and solicitation regulation
Historical abuses of incorporation and solicitation regulationContinuing the prior post about Congressional warfare against a gay rights organization, today I highlight some of the other examples in which governments in the United States have abused laws providing for incorporation of nonprofits or… -
May 10
New Slate Series on the Largest Nonprofit
New Slate Series on the Largest NonprofitSlate has started a new series -- Slate 90 -- that "examines the multibillion-dollar nonprofit sector" by scrutinizing the behavior of the largest nonprofits. As the introductory article explains: The Slate 90 represents the top 10… -
May 9
Nonprofit Law Flashback: US House Votes to Outlaw Gay Rights Organization
Nonprofit Law Flashback: US House Votes to Outlaw Gay Rights OrganizationYesterday I wrote about the discretion New Zealand gives to administrators to assess the benefit of policy views, and I mentioned that this is not usually the approach we follow in the United States. But this has not always been...
Rank this Week: 130
Credit Slips
Credit Slips
Discusses credit and bankruptcy. By Professors Bob Lawless, Angela Littwin, Katie Porter, John Pottow, Deborah Thorne and Elizabeth Warren.
http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/
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May 25
More on "Undue Hardship" and Student Loans in Bankruptcy
More on "Undue Hardship" and Student Loans in BankruptcyFollowing up on Bob's post earlier this week about the Department of Education's request for information (RFI) regarding evaluating "undue hardship" claims in adversary proceedings to discharge student loans, a group of 23… -
May 24
OCC Payday Lending Bulletin
OCC Payday Lending BulletinThe Office of Comptroller of the Currency put out a Bulletin this week encouraging banks to make short-term small-dollar installment loans to their customers—basically bank payday loans. The OCC seems to envision 2-12 month amortizing,… -
May 24
Student Loans and Other Doings for the ABI Consumer Bankruptcy Commission
Student Loans and Other Doings for the ABI Consumer Bankruptcy CommissionThe American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy has been hard at work (Full disclosure: I am the Commission's reporter.) Yesterday, the Commission submitted written comments to the Department of Education's request for…
Rank this Week: 210
Conglomerate
Conglomerate
Covers business, law, economics and society. By Professors Gordon Smith, Christine Hurt, Lisa Fairfax, David Zarin, Usha Rodrigues, and Erik Gerding
http://www.theconglomerate.org/
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Apr 24
CFP: AALS BA Section
CFP: AALS BA SectionContractual Governance: the Role of Private Ordering at the 2019 AALS Annual Meeting The AALS Section on Business Associations is... -
Apr 16
Lynn Stout
Lynn StoutShocked and terribly sad to learn that Lynn Stout has died. Stephen Bainbridge shares emails from the UCLA and Cornell... -
Apr 3
CFP: Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop
CFP: Corporate & Securities Litigation WorkshopCorporate & Securities Litigation Workshop: Call for Papers The University of Richmond School of Law, in conjunction with Boston University...
Rank this Week: 233
Human Rights at Home Blog
Human Rights at Home Blog
Edited by Martha F. Davis, Margaret Drew, Lauren Bartlett, Carrie Bettinger Lopez, Leigh Goodmark, Brian Howe, Deena Hurwitz, Risa Kaufman, Sital Kilantry, Mariah McGill, Fran Quigley, Katherine Schultz, David Singleton, Cindy Soohoo, Jonathan Todrews, Penny Venetis and Lesley Wexler.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/human_rights/
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May 24
Anticipating the UN Report on Extreme Poverty in the United State
Anticipating the UN Report on Extreme Poverty in the United StateA democracy cannot sustain itself when millions live in extreme poverty. UN Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Philip Alston is expected to release his report in early June, having conducted a tour of the United States. As… -
May 23
ICE Delivers Extreme Child Abuse at The Border
ICE Delivers Extreme Child Abuse at The BorderThe separation of families at our borders is distressing and inflicts multiple trauma on already traumatized people. Even more distressing is the abuse of unaccompanied minors. Many find the topic too distressing to discuss. But the abuse of… -
May 22
US Ambassador to Netherlands Acknowledges His Fake New
US Ambassador to Netherlands Acknowledges His Fake NewIn 2015 Pete Hoekstra lied. He said that the Islamic movement was causing chaos in Europe and was responsible for burning politicians and cars in the Netherlands. Hoekstra acnowledged that this report was fake news. Now Hoekstra is the US...
Rank this Week: 2214