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22 Apr 2018, 4:31 pm by INFORRM
Judge Judith Gibson has published a thought-provoking paper criticising the Australian Governments successive failures to adequately reform Australian defamation law to ensure it is fit for purpose. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
It is time for an update on a proposal—about which I wrote two columns (the second of which is here) last summer—that seeks to carve California up into three separate states. [read post]
4 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 6:01 am
Gez, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, on Thursday, March 29, 2018 Tags: Compensation disclosure, Compensation ratios, Dodd-Frank Act, Executive Compensation, Financial reporting, Proxy disclosure, Securities regulation [read post]
25 Mar 2018, 4:25 pm by INFORRM
On 21 March 2018 Sir David Eady handed down judgment in the case of AXB v BXA [2018] EWHC 588 (QB). [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In my last column, 2020 Election Legal Maneuvering, I described a recent lawsuit filed by some prominent lawyers and law professors challenging Texas’s use of the so-called Winner-Take-All (WTA) approach to selecting the state’s representatives to the so-called Electoral College. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In the space below and also in a subsequent column, I examine the Winner-Take-All approach to allocating electors and the legal claims against it.Background on the ComplaintThe recently filed Complaint—in which University of Texas Law Professor Sandy Levinson is a named plaintiff and in which noted trial attorney David Boies (who represented and did the oral argument for Al Gore in the famous Bush v. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
This week’s decision by Justice Samuel Alito (who entertains emergency motions from within Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) to leave undisturbed the congressional districting ruling last month by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court—in League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v Commonwealth (League of Women Voters)—is a helpful reminder of the importance of state courts and state constitutions in safeguarding American democracy. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 6:10 am
Corporate Governance Update: Boards, Sexual Harassment, and Gender Diversity Posted by David A. [read post]
The blockbuster movie The Post tells a very important real-life story about the efforts of the journalists and leaders of the Washington Post (including Katherine Graham, the first female head of a major American newspaper) and the New York Times to publish parts of a collection of classified documents (the “Pentagon Papers”) detailing non-public information about America’s controversial involvement in the Vietnam War. [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 5:00 am by John Jascob
Panelists included Robert Buckholz, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell; Lisa Fairfax, a professor at George Washington University Law School; and Monica Loseman, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.Salman: clarity on insider trading. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 6:02 am
Ritter (University of Florida), on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Tags: Agency costs, Capital formation, China, International governance, IPOs, Offer pricing, Underpricing, Underwriting Analysis of Fund Voting at Utilities Companies Posted by Casey Aspin, Preventable Surprises, on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Tags: BlackRock, Climate change, Environmental disclosure, Exchange-traded funds, Index funds, Institutional… [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 6:13 am
Gregory, Sidley Austin LLP, on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Tags: Board composition, Board performance, Board turnover, Boards of Directors, Corporate culture, Director qualifications, Diversity, Engagement, General counsel, Institutional Investors, Long-Term value, Management, Risk management, Shareholder activism, Shocks Critical Update Needed: Cybersecurity Expertise in the Boardroom Posted by David F. [read post]