Most Popular University of Illinois College of Law Blawgs Expanded View List View
Blogs 1 - 6 of 6
Sorted by Popularity |
Sort by Name |
Sort by Last Post Date
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/
-
Sep 25
Pollman on Social Enterprises & Benefit Corporation
Pollman on Social Enterprises & Benefit CorporationElizabeth Pollman (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) has posted Social and Asocial Enterprise (Forthcoming, The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law (Joseph W. Yockey & Benjamin Means eds., 2017) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: One of… -
Sep 25
White on Scalia on Civic Virtue & Republican Government
White on Scalia on Civic Virtue & Republican GovernmentAdam J. White (The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace) has posted Justice Scalia's Soulcraft as Statecraft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In December 1986, just three months after his appointment to the Supreme Court. Justice… -
Sep 25
Ho on Internationalizing & Historicizing Hart's Theory of Law
Ho on Internationalizing & Historicizing Hart's Theory of LawNorman P. Ho (Peking University School of Transnational Law) has posted Internationalizing and Historicizing Hart's Theory of Law (Washington University Jurisprudence Review (Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2018, Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the…
Rank this Week: 24
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/
-
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: 81
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/
-
Sep 15
The DAFs Strike Back
The DAFs Strike BackAs the use of donor advised funds grows, so does the legal attention to donor advised funds. All of this attention started in (what seems like forever ago…) 2006, with the passage of the Pension Protection Act. Since that time,... -
Sep 14
2017 Guidestar Compensation Report
2017 Guidestar Compensation ReportThe 2017 Guidestar Compensation report is now available for purchase, although Guidestar does provide a sample of the report here. Summaries highlight two issues: - Nonprofit compensation has gone up over the last year, returning to… -
Sep 12
Aprill, "Religious Organizations, Refuge for Undocumented Immigrants, and Tax Exemption"
Aprill, "Religious Organizations, Refuge for Undocumented Immigrants, and Tax Exemption"The abstract from SSRN: The Trump Administration plans for aggressive enforcement of immigration laws have caused many houses of worship and other religious organizations to consider whether their beliefs call upon them to grant refuge or…
Rank this Week: 245
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/
-
Sep 25
Keep the Cameras Rolling: Photographers Lose in Challenge over Refusal to Service Same-Sex Weddings under Minnesota’s Human Rights Act
Keep the Cameras Rolling: Photographers Lose in Challenge over Refusal to Service Same-Sex Weddings under Minnesota’s Human Rights ActLast week, a federal district court in Minnesota ruled against plaintiffs Carl and Angel Larsen, and their videography company, TMG, in their suit against Lori Swanson, Minnesota’s Attorney General and Kevin Lindsey, the commissioner of… -
Sep 24
The Travel Ban Cases and Human Right
The Travel Ban Cases and Human RightThe consolidated cases challenging the Trump Administration's Executive Order imposing a "travel ban" -- Trump v. Hawaii, and Trump v. International Refugee Committee -- are set for oral argument in the Supreme Court on October 10. Many of… -
Sep 21
For DACA Volunteers - More On-Line DACA Training
For DACA Volunteers - More On-Line DACA TrainingProf. Anne Hornsby of the University of Alabama School of Law introduces us to a You Tube video designed to inform non-immigration lawyers to representation of young people struggling with DACA status. As Anne explains: "This video, featuring…
Rank this Week: 278
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/
-
Jun 26
American Airlines, Qatar, and the NOL Poison Pill
American Airlines, Qatar, and the NOL Poison PillI know most bloggers today are consumed with the June avalanche of Supreme Court opinions and cert grants, but something... -
May 25
AALS BA Call for Paper
AALS BA Call for PaperCall for Papers AALS Section on Business Associations Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance AALS Annual Meeting, January 5, 2018 The... -
May 9
CFP: Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, and Sustainability
CFP: Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, and SustainabilityAn exciting opportunity to participate in a volume on corporate law & sustainability and accompanying symposium: Call for Papers: Cambridge...
Rank this Week: 299
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/
-
Sep 25
Toys "Я" US's Curious Bankruptcy Venue
Toys "Я" US's Curious Bankruptcy VenueToys "R" Us filed for bankruptcy with impeccable timing--the very morning I was teaching my Financial Restructuring class about the commencement of the bankruptcy process. I decided to take my class through the TRU petition on… -
Sep 25
WARN Act Claims after Spokeo v. Robin
WARN Act Claims after Spokeo v. RobinI'm musing out loud here, but does the Supreme Court's holding in Spokeo v. Robins—that a suit claiming statutory damages without alleging actual damages lacks Article III standing—impact WARN Act claims in bankruptcy? The WARN Act is a… -
Sep 16
Visa's Maginot Line: Chip Cards and the Equifax Breach
Visa's Maginot Line: Chip Cards and the Equifax BreachThe media attention on the Equifax breach has been primarily on consumer harm. There's real consumer harm, but it's generally not direct pecuniary harm. Instead, the direct pecuniary harm from the breach will be borne by banks and merchants,…
Rank this Week: 361