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6 Aug 2023, 9:30 pm
The plan on the day is for formal commentaries from Brian Cheffins (Cambridge University), Alexander Field (Santa Clara University), Patrick Fridenson (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale and Michigan), Laura Phillips Sawyer (Georgia), and, family obligations permitting, Mark Roe (Harvard), a brief response from the author, and then extended discussion from the audience. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 4:00 am
National/Federal Attacks on Dominion Voting Persist Despite High-Profile Lawsuits DNyuz – Stuart Thompson | Published: 4/6/2023 Claims that election software companies like Dominion Voting Systems sent helped orchestrate widespread fraud in the 2020 election have been widely debunked in the years since former President Trump and his allies first pushed the theories. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
Shareholder Activism and Activist Settlement Agreements Posted by Melissa Sawyer, Lauren Boehmke and Susan Lindsay, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Thursday, January 5, 2023 Tags: COVID-19, M&A, Proxy contests, Proxy voting, SEC, Shareholder activism [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
Shareholder Activism and Activist Settlement Agreements Posted by Melissa Sawyer, Lauren Boehmke and Susan Lindsay, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Thursday, January 5, 2023 Tags: COVID-19, M&A, Proxy contests, Proxy voting, SEC, Shareholder activism [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 9:30 pm
The Limitless Possibilities of the Long Progressive Era’s New Democracy by Laura Phillips-Sawyer (University of Georgia Law)2. [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 2:00 am
*This is the twelfth and final post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 10:30 pm
Louis)"New Democracy: Finding Hope in the Past and Heavy Lifting for the Future," by Kate Andrias (Columbia Law School)"Recovering Contingency within American Antimonopoly and Democracy," by Laura Phillips Sawyer (University of Georgia School of Law)"Democracy and Then Democracy," by Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School)"Constitutionalism and New Democracy: Two Questions," by Ashraf Ahmed (Columbia Law School)"Regulatory History by the… [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 10:35 am
*This is the seventh post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 7:46 pm
*This is the fourth post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 6:01 am
Greecher, and Brian Currie, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, on Friday, February 18, 2022 Tags: Accounting, Boards of Directors, Corporate forms, Corporate purpose, Delaware law, ESG, Incorporations, Public benefit corporations SEC Enforcement: Year in Review Posted by Harris Fischman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Saturday, February 19, 2022 Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, ESG, Financial… [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 6:20 am
Lynn, Morrison & Foerster LLP, on Sunday, October 17, 2021 Tags: Climate change, Environmental disclosure, ESG, SEC, SEC rulemaking, Securities regulation, Sustainability 2021 Corporate Governance Trends in the Retail Industry Posted by Audra Cohen and Melissa Sawyer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Monday, October 18, 2021 Tags: Board composition, Boards of Directors, Diversity, ESG, Proxy access, Proxy… [read post]
15 Oct 2021, 6:18 am
Posted by Michael Dambra (SUNY at Buffalo), Omri Even-Tov (University of California at Berkeley), and Kimberlyn George (University of California at Berkeley), on Monday, October 11, 2021 Tags: Capital formation, Forecasting, Investor protection, IPOs, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, PSLRA, Retail investors, Safe harbor, Securities litigation, Securities regulation, SPACs 2022 Proxy and Annual Report Season Posted by… [read post]
27 Aug 2021, 6:01 am
Xie (MIT Sloan School of Management), on Monday, August 23, 2021 Tags: Disclosure, Index funds, Information asymmetries, Institutional Investors, Mutual funds, Retail investors The Board’s Role in Sustainable Leadership Posted by Laura Sanderson, PJ Neal, and Emily Meneer, Russell Reynolds Associates LLP, on Monday, August 23, 2021 Tags: Board oversight, Boards of Directors, Climate change, Corporate… [read post]
5 Feb 2021, 6:01 am
Rodgin Cohen and Melissa Sawyer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Tags: Disclosure, ESG, Institutional Investors, Political spending, Proxy advisors, Shareholder proposals, Shareholder voting, Transparency Don’t Let the Short-Termism Bogeyman Scare You Posted by Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School), on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Tags: Financial reporting, Hedge funds, Institutional… [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 9:30 pm
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Laura Phillips Sawyer (University of Georgia School of Law) for this piece on the Justice Department's pursuit of Google over its allegedly anti-competitive conduct. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Lev Parnas, oligarchs and a lucrative lobbying deal NBC News – Aubrey Belford, Adam Klasfeld, Andrew Lehren, and Dan De Luce | Published: 9/22/2020 On January 19, 2017, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, sat down with Brian Ballard, a well-connected lobbyist serving as vice chair of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 3:30 am
Laura Phillips Sawyer, American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the ‘New Competition,’ 1890-1940 (2017). [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 9:30 pm
The latest issue of Business History Review (93:4) is a special issue, New Perspectives in Regulatory History.Introduction: New Perspectives in Regulatory History, by Laura Phillips Sawyer and Herbert HovenkampInstitutional Economics and the Progressive Movement for the Social Control of American Business, by William J. [read post]
18 Nov 2019, 9:30 pm
John of Columbia University joins Harvard Law’s Kenneth Mack as commentators on Legal Histories of Modern American Capitalism: Anne Fleming’s City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance and Laura Phillips Sawyer’s American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,” 1890-1940. [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 6:30 am
[We're moving this up, because we've received an updated version of the program. [read post]
