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27 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
Those are the same four justices who dissented in Town of Greece.In Dunn, the majority reversed the Eleventh Circuit’s stay of execution. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
In our last column, we explored some threshold justiciability issues (focusing on the plaintiff’s standing to sue in federal court) in the recent federal lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR), challenging HLR’s use of race and gender in selecting members and also in selecting authors for publication. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
Public universities all over the country are grappling with the challenges that arise when members of the university community (especially so-called Registered Student Organizations or RSOs) invite contentious speakers to campus for events that threaten to generate tremendous passion on all sides of controversial issues, and that carry with them the realistic prospect of violence. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 6:14 am
Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness; and Linda Moore, TechNet, on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 Tags: Conflicts of interest, Engagement, Institutional Investors, Proxy advisors, Proxy voting, SEC, SEC rulemaking, Securities regulation, Shareholder communications, Shareholder proposals, Shareholder voting, Transparency Guidance on Books-and-Records Inspection Rights Posted by William Savitt, Ryan A. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
For many law students, membership in and service on an academic journal is a highlight of the law school experience. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week an Alabama trial court judge (Michael Graffeo) made national news when (literally just minutes before his judicial term expired and he began retirement) he held that the Alabama Memorial Protection Act (AMPA)—which prohibits public jurisdictions within the state from altering or otherwise disturbing public monuments that have been in existence for at least forty years—violated the Fourteenth Amendment free speech and due process rights of the City of Birmingham, which sought to… [read post]
17 Jan 2019, 9:30 pm
Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) praised the legislation as a “bipartisan measure” that would support the development of “modern, clean and efficient energy. [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
In my last column, Part One of this series, I examined a lawsuit challenging the Arizona state law scheme for holding a replacement election to fill the US Senate vacancy created by John McCain’s death last year. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm
An interesting and potentially important lawsuit in federal court in Arizona is challenging the way state officials have sought to deal with the vacancy in the US Senate created by Senator McCain’s death four months ago (on August 25, 2018). [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm
As the vote tallies for the November 2018 federal elections become finalized, one seat in the House of Representatives may not be resolved for several weeks because of an unusual lawsuit filed by Republican incumbent Bruce Poliquin (along with three Republican voters) in Maine. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
13 Nov 2018, 2:32 pm
Maull, Introduction: The International Order: A Framework for Analysis Bernard Hoekman, The International Trade Order: Performance and Challenges Joyeeta Gupta, Climate Change and the Future of International Order Iris Hunger, Coping with Public Health Emergencies of International Concern William Walker, The International Nuclear Order After the Cold War: Enduring Strengths, Recent Setbacks, Persistent Challenges Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Aligning State and Non-State Actors'… [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 6:03 am
Posted by Jarrad Harford (University of Washington), Jared R. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 7:47 am
New Books CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE William R. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
This three-part series looks at intriguing constitutional questions raised by California’s statutory enactment of SB 826, which requires publicly held corporations with principal executive offices located in California to have a prescribed number of women on their boards of directors. [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Two weeks ago, in Part One of this series, we began to analyze some of the intriguing constitutional questions raised by California’s enactment of SB 826, a statute that requires publicly held corporations with principal executive offices in California to have a prescribed number of women on their boards of directors. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 826, a landmark measure that requires each publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California to have, by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board of directors. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this summer, Illinois became the 37th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution originally proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 6:12 am
McLeod, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Tags: Accountability, Boards of Directors, Incorporations, Shareholder activism, Shareholder primacy, Staggered boards, Stakeholders, State law A Proposed Alternative to Corporate Governance and the Theory of Shareholder Primacy Posted by John R. [read post]
