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Notes from the tea party caucus of corporate academia
Roberta Romano has just posted her paper, Regulating in the Dark. Here’s the abstract: Foundational financial legislation is typically adopted in the midst or aftermath of financial crises, when an informed understanding of the causes of the crisis is not yet available. Moreover, financial institutions operate in a dynamic environment of considerable uncertainty, such that ... Notes from the tea party caucus of corporate academia
Preempting state securities laws
States can be a wonderful laboratory and platform for jurisdictional competition. But sometimes the laboratory seems to belong to Dr. Frankenstein and then federal law must step in to bring order. Biff Campbell thinks Reg D has failed its intended purpose and the reason is state law. Here’s part of the abstract: Regulation D * ... Preempting state securities laws
Big Law as LPO reseller
Yesterday’s Law Blog notes a Fronterion report that legal outsourcers are facing more competition from “insourcers” setting up centers inside the U.S. The reasons include rising wages in India and falling wages in the U.S. and the U.K. so The glut of new law school graduates in 2012 will likely put offshore legal services ... Big Law as LPO reseller
The Washington Post columnists on the Supercommittee
My apologies to TOTM readers for taking last week off. A firm retreat in Phoenix followed by a hearing in Oklahoma City really puts a crimp on one’s fun time. In the meantime, the BCS announced that it is considering eliminating the automatic-qualification offers to BCS conference champions. The ACC and Big East must not ... The Washington Post columnists on the Supercommittee
Mason LEC Programs for Economics & Law Professors
The George Mason LEC has reinstituted the Economics Institute for Law Professors and the Law Institute for Economics Professors. I will be attending as faculty for the Economic Institute for Law Professors, where I will teach various aspects of microeconomic theory along with Michael Baye. The agenda for that program is available here. If you’ve ... Mason LEC Programs for Economics & Law Professors
Quello Center’s Governance of Social Media Workshop at Georgetown Tomorrow
Here’s the link to the conference, and the program, which covers all angles of social media and the law. Predictably, my interest here is competition policy — I’ll be on the 10:45 panel discussing those issues along with: Michael Altschul (CTIA), Nicolas Economides (NYU), Adam Thierer (GMU), and Moderator Steve Wildman (MSU). The link to ... Quello Center’s Governance of Social Media Workshop at Georgetown Tomorrow
A Macro Conference
I was invited to attend the Financial Times Global Conference “The View From the Top: The Future of America” and since I was in New York anyway I thought it would be fun. I don’t hang around with macro types much, and even less with liberal macro types. I will not summarize the entire conference, ... A Macro Conference
Dear Michael Pollan: When It Comes to GM Food, the Problem is Regulation, Not Its Absence.
Before concluding that “there ought to be a law” to remedy an unhappy situation, one should ask whether it’s really a law that’s causing the problem in the first place. I was reminded of that principle this afternoon when I read some remarks by Michael Pollan, doyen of the “slow food” movement, in today’s New ... Dear Michael Pollan: When It Comes to GM Food, the Problem is Regulation, Not Its Absence.
Attention Economists and Economics Graduate Students: Want to Go to Law School?
I have recently joined my colleague Bruce Johnsen as a co director of the Robert A. Levy Fellowship in Law and Liberty at GMU Law. It is a very generous fellowship — a tuition waiver plus a generous stipend — for economists who have their PhD’s or “ABD” status to come to law school on ... Attention Economists and Economics Graduate Students: Want to Go to Law School?
SEC Organizational Reform Hearing
The semester is off to a bang. I arrived at Stanford Monday to start teaching in the Law School and begin a research fellowship at the Hoover Institution. Yesterday I hiked in the mountains overlooking the SF Bay. Today I am flying back to DC (and blogging in flight, how cool is that) to testify ... SEC Organizational Reform Hearing
New Yorker captions and the law
For years I’ve been trying to win the New Yorker caption contest. After repeated failure I’ve finally decided my problem is that I’m not a typical New Yorker reader. Which means that I read the Wall Street Journal. So now the WSJ has a story (who will read it?) on other people who have had ... New Yorker captions and the law
My Reflections on The Senate CFPB Hearing
[Cross-posted at PYMNTS.COM] Richard Cordray’s nomination hearing provided an opportunity to learn something new about the substantive policies of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Unfortunately, that opportunity came and went without answering many of the key questions that remain concerning the impact of the CFPB’s enforcement and regulatory agenda on the availability of consumer ... My Reflections on The Senate CFPB Hearing
