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6 Nov 2009, 7:10 am
  Conglomerate has three articles on the case: a piece by William Birdthistle assesses the case's implications for the executive branch, highlighting the ten-minute appearance by Assistant to the Solicitor General Curtis Gannon on behalf of the United States, while Renee Jones argues that the questions raised by Jones "reflect an apparent shift in how judges and government officials are thinking about the role of government in business. [read post]
3 Nov 2009, 8:41 pm
William Birdthistle surely is correct in asserting, "Any argument that market forces are and ought to be the only restraints on the fees that investment advisors charge fund shareholders - and that courts are ill-suited to this task - must first acknowledge that Congress has already decided otherwise in its enactment of Section 36(b). [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 5:03 pm
  Morningstar has also posted a summary/preview of the case, including  this video of a discussion featuring John Coates of Harvard Law School (who supports the  respondents as an amicus) and William Birdthistle of Chicago-Kent Law School (who supports the petitioners). [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 5:00 am
  Check back in to read our man-on-the-scene William Birdthistle's take on the oral argument. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 5:00 am
., not Delaware) oral arguments are set for Nov. 2, and we'll have a correspondent, William Birdthistle, live on the scene. [read post]
25 Oct 2009, 11:01 pm
William Birdthistle is back for a second guest blogging stint, and we are hoping to twist his arm to write a few things about Jones v. [read post]
5 Sep 2009, 1:57 pm
Birdthistle has been a recent guest blogger at Conglomerate, where most of his posts dealt with the case. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 9:41 am
., William Birdthistle's), but I fear that students leave the basic securities course knowing little to nothing about the vehicle through which most of them will invest, if not counsel as clients. [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 4:00 am
Harris by William Birdthistle on The Conglomerate Investment Indiscipline: A Behavioral Approach to Mutual Fund Jurisprudence by William Birdthistle Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal Decision in Jones, et al., v. [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 10:14 am
The brief argues instead that the PCAOB is an independent regulatory entity subject to oversight and enforcement by the SEC, another independent regulatory entity, and that this double-decker independence stretches the Constitution's text and precedents too far.Amici curiae: Stephen Bainbridge, Robert Bartlett, William Birdthistle, Timothy Canova, Lawrence Cunningham, James Fanto, Theresa Gabaldon, Lyman Johnson, Roberta Karmel, Donna Nagy, Lydie Pierre-Louis, Adam Pritchard,… [read post]
5 Aug 2009, 7:00 am
The professors in the brief are: Stephen Bainbridge, Robert Bartlett, William Birdthistle, Timothy Canova, Lawrence Cunningham, James Fanto, Theresa Gabaldon, Lyman Johnson, Roberta Karmel, Donna Nagy, Lydie Pierre-Louis, Adam Pritchard, Margaret Sachs, Gordon Smith, and Kellye Testy. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 2:25 pm
I've been fortunate to have good soccer conversations with lawprofs David Schleicher, William Birdthistle, Graeme Dinwoodie, and Mike Madison (who has done some really good soccer writing over at Madisonian), but I'm sure there are others out there. [read post]
7 Jun 2009, 9:57 am
Birdthistle, Chicago-Kent College of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 7:14 pm
Enron, the Subordination of Good Faith Transferees in Bankruptcy, and the Need for General Commercial Negotiability Eric Goldman, A Coasean Analysis of Marketing William Birdthistle, Compensating Power: An Analysis of Rents and Rewards in the Mutual Fund Industry Matthew Bodie, AOL Time Warner and the False God of Shareholder Primacy Brian Galle, A Republic of the Mind: Cognitive Biases, Fiscal Federalism, and the Tax Code David Gamage & Allon Kedem,… [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 3:05 pm
" [PrawfsBlawg] * Tips for people trying to balance parenting and professional productivity, from William Birdthistle. [read post]
30 Apr 2008, 7:29 am
I'm pleased to welcome William Birdthistle, of Chicago-Kent, as a guest-blogger this month. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 3:00 pm
Some reflections from Professor William Birdthistle. [read post]