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7 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
For many business economists and legal academics, the purpose of any business organization is simply stated: to maximize profits. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
”[2] Unlike criminal prosecutors and the police, civil regulators do not need to have any evidence, akin to probable cause, before issuing subpoenas. [read post]
19 Jul 2023, 9:05 pm by renholding
The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023,[1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation.[2] Much less attention has gone to two bills that are moving toward adoption in California. [read post]
3 Jul 2023, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  “[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of [the ends instantiated in ‘the people’], it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The supposed distortion of interposition was expounded by John C. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Consider his well-known statement in an 1810 letter to John Colvin: [A] strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen: but it is not the highest. the laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. to lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property & all those who are enjoying them with us;… [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Sanford Levinson This post was prepared for a roundtable onFederation and Secession, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 4:13 am by jonathanturley
The complaint alleges that Stacie Steinbock, director of the LGBT Center at the University’s Health Science Center, Brian W. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  I had not previously met Jeanne Sheehan Zaino or Wilfred Codrington (though I did happily blurb the book on constitutional amendment that Wilfred co-authored with John Kowal). [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 10:32 am by Roger Parloff
Last month, a federal appeals panel gave the back of its hand to Rep. [read post]
18 Feb 2022, 2:30 pm by Eugene Volokh
The nineteenth century English philosopher John Stuart Mill was a fierce advocate of free speech. [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 11:29 am by Geoffrey Manne
Empirical research by Hsu and Ziedonis, for instance, supports this hypothesis:  [W]e find a statistically significant and economically large effect of patent filings on investor estimates of start-up value…. [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 5:52 am
Daniel, and Barbara Niederkofler, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, on Sunday, January 2, 2022 Tags: Institutional Investors, Investment advisers, Mutual funds, Private funds, SEC, SEC enforcement, Securities enforcement, Securities regulation Enron’s Contribution to the Vitality of Corporate Compliance Posted by Michael W. [read post]