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Helpful Law Review Articles?
Adam Liptak, in the NYT, penned an interesting article on the declining level of usefulness that law review articles appear to have in judicial opinions. (Orrin Kerr has a nice post on the article.) Various quotes in the article make clear that some members of the judiciary do not find law review articles particularly helpful in deciding ... Helpful Law Review Articles?
Midwest Farmers 1, Environment 0, Poor People -1
Friday’s WSJ documented an effect of ethanol mandates: Rising costs for agricultural commodities are making their way up the food chain into the food you eat. Thanks to rising demand for corn-based ethanol, corn prices have nearly doubled during the past year. That’s raised costs for corn products, like the ubiquitous high-fructose corn syrup that’s ... Midwest Farmers 1, Environment 0, Poor People -1
Insider Trading: Sin or Crime? (or None of the Above?)
R. Foster Winans knows insider trading. A former author of the Wall Street Journal‘s Heard on the Street column, Winans was a key figure in an insider trading case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In that case, Carpenter v. United States, the Court affirmed securities fraud and mail/wire fraud convictions ... Insider Trading: Sin or Crime? (or None of the Above?)
Law School Rankings and Per Capita Downloads
Brian Leiter has posted, with all the caveats that go along with using SSRN downloads to rank faculties, a new set of rankings using downloads for the past 12 months. Leiter lists the top 15 by total downloads and new papers in 2006 along with the share of total downloads attributable to the top 3 ... Law School Rankings and Per Capita Downloads
Klein v. Coase III: Fisher Body-General Motors Again (and Again)
Peter Klein‘s post over at the always excellent Organizations and Markets reminded me that I have been wanting to blog about the most recent exchange between Ben Klein and Ronald Coase over the asset specificity, vertical integration, and the famous Fisher Body – General Motors example which has become a classic example of hold up ... Klein v. Coase III: Fisher Body-General Motors Again (and Again)
Why doesn’t majority voting as implemented have more teeth?
The whole idea behind majority voting for the election of directors, to paraphrase ISS, is that it transforms uncontested elections from symbolic to democratic. This is because majority voting in its purest form would give shareholders veto authority over management candidates—authority not afforded to shareholders under the traditional plurality voting standard. Critics maintain that giving ... Why doesn’t majority voting as implemented have more teeth?
Rubin on "Item Pricing Laws" in the WSJ
Paul Rubin (Emory Law) has an excellent piece in the WSJ taking state regulators to task for “Item Pricing Laws” which require that most goods in retail stores have an individual price sticker rather than, for example, a price tag on the store shelf. IPLs increase “menu costs” when retailers want to change prices which ... Rubin on "Item Pricing Laws" in the WSJ
Majoras Responds to Conyers Regarding Leegin
There’s just so much paper going back and forth on Leegin that it’s hard to keep up. In addition to various briefs and commentaries and Commissioner Harbour’s de facto brief (also discussed here), there has been some interesting correspondence between Rep. Conyers, Chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Deborah Platt Majoras, Chair ... Majoras Responds to Conyers Regarding Leegin
Is Tenure Overrated Or Are the Alternatives Really That Bad?
Steve Levitt thinks that tenure is overrated. But relative to what? Levitt proposes doing away with tenure because it distorts the incentives of scholars to front load their productivity and then ride off into the sunset after tenure is granted. Surely he is right about this incentive effect. Levitt also makes quick work of the ... Is Tenure Overrated Or Are the Alternatives Really That Bad?
FTC/DOJ Section 2 Hearings Explore Monopoly Power
For the next two days, the Section 2 Hearings will explore “different methods of evaluating monopoly power in single-firm conduct cases, including issues relating to market definition, the Cellophane fallacy, the use of direct evidence, single-firm markets, and technology markets.” The sessions will be held at the FTC’s Conference Center at 601 New Jersey Ave., ... FTC/DOJ Section 2 Hearings Explore Monopoly Power
Updated Drafts on SSRN
I have just posted two revised drafts to SSRN: Slotting Contracts and Consumer Welfare (forthcoming in the Antitrust Law Journal and previously blogged about here). Antitrust Analysis of Category Management: Conwood v. U.S. Tobacco. Both are pretty substantial revisions and so I hope that folks who have read previous drafts will check out the updated ... Updated Drafts on SSRN
A Response to Commissioner Harbour’s "Open Letter" on Leegin
Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour has sent the U.S. Supreme Court justices an “open letter” regarding the pending Leegin case. [HT: Danny Sokol.] Leegin, as regular TOTM readers know, will test the continued vitality of Dr. Miles, the 1911 decision making it per se illegal for manufacturers and retailers to agree on minimum retail ... A Response to Commissioner Harbour’s "Open Letter" on Leegin
