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28 Feb 2011, 5:53 pm
Adam Leviton (Georgetown), In Defense of Bailouts [George Geis (Virginia) & Art Wilmarth (GW)] Jodie Kirshner (Cambridge), A Transatlantic Perspective on Regional Dynamics and Societa Eurpoea [Francesca Bignami (GW) & Theresa Gabaldon (GW)] Alan White (Valparaiso), Welfare Economics and Regulation of Small-Loan Credit: Lessons from Microlending in Developing Nations [Michael Pagano (Villanova) & Lawrence Mitchell (GW)] Nicola Sharpe (Illinois), Corporate Board Performance and… [read post]
28 May 2021, 4:58 pm
Spearheaded by Robert Rasmussen, Michael Simkovic, and Samir Parikh, the Roundtable seeks to bring together experienced and junior scholars to discuss particularly noteworthy scholarship involving financial restructuring and business law. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 5:54 am
My colleague Michael Simkovic’s article “Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008” exposes the role of derivatives and securitization as secretive borrowing strategies, designed to keep the naive or trusting from discovering the fragility of the institutions they loan funds to. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 10:05 am
Spearheaded by Tony Casey, Samir Parikh, Robert Rasmussen, and Michael Simkovic, this invitation-only event brings together practitioners, jurists, scholars, and finance industry professionals to discuss important financial restructuring and business law issues. [read post]
28 Jul 2013, 1:56 am
Indeed, it is the plight of these people, who likely number in the tens of thousands, that I think so inspires the anger of people who have been beating on Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre’s somewhat smug attempt at a refutation of the claim that the sky is falling. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 2:37 pm
House Republicans recently voted along party lines in favor of a tax bill that specifically targeted higher education institutions and students for tax hikes, while... [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 4:46 pm
This weekend, The New York Times Editorial Board published a sensationalist lead editorial, “The Law School Debt Crisis,” claiming that law student borrowing is harmful... [read post]
9 Sep 2017, 5:42 am
The powerful Washington D.C. think tank New America Foundation, which has ties to the technology, finance, and aerospace industries, recently fired a researcher within days... [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 10:21 am
The Supreme Court's recent ruling that Harvard and UNC's affirmative action programs violate the equal protection clause has been described by many as a blow... [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 6:19 pm
Professor Henderson finds that: "CEOs with legal expertise are effective at managing litigation risk by, in part, setting more risk-averse firm policies. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 2:04 pm
I've previously noted some of the outrageously implausible assumptions used by organizations with links to private student lenders (such as the New American Foundation, AEI,... [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 12:56 pm
Gawker Media, an internet tabloid, filed bankruptcy today in the Southern District of New York after losing a $130 million privacy lawsuit to former professional... [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 3:22 pm
The ABA Task Force on Financing Legal Education’s report was released last week. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 3:00 am
Occupational licensing regimes can help markets function when those markets suffer from what Economist George Akerlof coined a “lemons” problem. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 5:12 am
A draft judicial ethics advisory opinion would discourage judges and their clerks and staff attorneys from being members of either the conservative/libertarian Federalist Society or... [read post]
27 Sep 2018, 12:38 pm
I testified earlier today at the House Judiciary Committee on the "State of Intellectual Freedom in America. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 3:09 pm
Just when you thought The New York Times was rounding the corner and starting to report responsibly about legal education based on hard data and... [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 5:37 am
A great honor. [read post]
13 Apr 2018, 12:00 pm
A new survey study by Milan Markovic and Gabriel Plicket finds that Texas lawyers generally remain fairly satisfied after the 2008 recession. [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 7:59 pm
The Reuters story is here. [read post]
