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The Breathtaking Ruthlessness of the Proposed Budget Cuts
The New York Times is appalled at House Republicans’ plans to “eviscerate nondefense spending,” calling the vote in favor of the cuts an act of “breathtaking ruthlessness.” The budget cuts, the Times says, will “carve $61 billion out of the government for just the next seven months, which would throw hundreds of thousands of people ... The Breathtaking Ruthlessness of the Proposed Budget Cuts
American Economic Review’s Top 20 of the Last 100 Years
The paper is here (HT: Steve Salop). The AER’s The Top 20 Committee, consisting of Kenneth J. Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S. Feldstein, Daniel L. McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert M. Solow, made the selections. The list is alphabetical, of course, but TOTM readers will observe that it starts off particularly well (see ... American Economic Review’s Top 20 of the Last 100 Years
E-marriage at the AALS
I’ll be speaking at the AALS on a “hot topic” devoted to this interesting subject, Yosemite C, ballroom level at the Hilton, 4-5:45 January 7. Here’s a brief excerpt from a longer description of the program: The panel explores the likelihood that technology, modern-day mobility, and patterns in affiliation will produce increasing numbers of marriage ... E-marriage at the AALS
Happy New Year — go watch a movie
Here are the best films I saw in 2010, in reverse chronological order: Hearts of Darkness, The Chaser, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Mother, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The White Ribbon, The Lives of Others, Sin Nombre, Suicide Kings, A Prophet, The Damned United, Barfly, The Wrestler, In the Loop, Revanche, ... Happy New Year — go watch a movie
Most Downloaded Antitrust Professors of 2010
HT: Danny Sokol. Name (Institution) Number of New Downloads Herb Hovenkamp (University of Iowa) 7532 David Evans (University College, University of Chicago) 7133 Damien Geradin (Tilburg, University of Michigan) 6394 Josh Wright (George Mason) 4733 Randy Picker (University of Chicago) 3170 Marc Edelman (Barry University) 3005 Bob Lande (University of Baltimore) 2759 Michael McCann (Vermont ... Most Downloaded Antitrust Professors of 2010
Nocera on the uncorporation and the financial crisis
The Glom’s having a book club on McLean & Nocera’s All the Devils Are Here. I haven’t read the book (it takes a lot to get me to read a book by business journalists). But I have read David Zaring’s interview with his “favorite Times columnist. One of the questions and answers naturally piqued my ... Nocera on the uncorporation and the financial crisis
Congratulations to the GMU Law and Economic Center’s Samantha Zyontz: Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize Competition Winner
Congratulations to Samantha Zyontz, a Senior Research Associate at the Searle Civil Justice Institute here at George Mason. Samantha and two co-authors, Michael Mazzeo (Kellogg) and Jonathan Hillel (Northwestern), are one of several recipients of the Inaugural Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize for their paper Are Patent Infringement Awards Excessive?: The Data Behind the Patent Reform Debate. ... Congratulations to the GMU Law and Economic Center’s Samantha Zyontz: Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize Competition Winner
The return of Rudy G
The WSJ has breathlessly reported: Federal authorities, capping a three-year investigation, are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders, and analysts across the nation, according to people familiar with the matter. The criminal and civil probes, which authorities say could eclipse the impact on the financial industry of any ... The return of Rudy G
Citizens United: Friday at Georgia State
I’ll be talking about the Citizens United case Friday at a Georgia State University College of Law symposium. Speakers also include Gene Nichol (UNC), Richard Briffault (Columbia), Joel Gora (Brooklyn), Heather Gerken (Yale), Jamie Raskin (American), Richard Hasen (Loyola), and Michael Boos, (GC Citizens United). You can get a pretty good idea here of my ... Citizens United: Friday at Georgia State
Stanford Law School Panel: The Constitution in the Financial Crisis
I am privileged to have the opportunity to travel to Palo Alto next week alongside my senior colleague Prof. Todd Zywicki to participate in a conference on The Constitution in the Financial Crisis organized by the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. I will in large part be discussing my work in this area, including Treasury Inc.: ... Stanford Law School Panel: The Constitution in the Financial Crisis
Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries
On Friday, I will be participating at an event at Technology Policy Institute, where I will be discussing the titular question along with Bob Crandall, Charles Jackson, Christopher Yoo, and Bruce Owen. Discussants are Joe Farrell, Tim Brennan, Carl Shapiro and Michael Salinger. As suggested below, my topic will be the recent antitrust enforcement actions ... Antitrust and the Dynamics of Competition in High-Tech Industries
Wilkes v. Springside and the Rise of the Uncorporation
As I noted last week I participated with several corporate law luminaries in a conference at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts on the famous case of Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home, 370 Mass. 842, 353 N.E.2d 657 (1976). Springfield is near Pittsfield, where Springside was located and this case originated. As most law students ... Wilkes v. Springside and the Rise of the Uncorporation
