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CELS 2006 at Texas
When Larry Solum announces that the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies is “one of those events that is likely to be remembered,” it is likely that this will be an important event in the legal academy. I’ve already started reading a number of interesting papers from this conference, and am excited about presenting my own ... CELS 2006 at Texas
Thoughts on Walker on Backdating
Professor Ribstein responds to David Walker’s backdating article, which Bill highlighted here at TOTM a few weeks ago. Larry’s take? This is a useful paper as far as it goes. The problem is that it has missed a significant chunk of the “literature” on this rapidly developing topic that has developed in our rapidly developing ... Thoughts on Walker on Backdating
Antitrust Canons
Matt Bodie’s “Canons” project continues over at Prawfs, and antitrust is up to bat. I took a stab at a reading list which I believe meet’s Matt’s criteria: articles that are essential to doing antitrust scholarship. My long, but embarrassingly underinclusive list, is below the fold. In particular, I have left out a good deal ... Antitrust Canons
More Evidence of an Antitrust Violation Brewing at Elite Schools
I called it last week. Today’s NYT reports that Princeton has accepted Harvard’s invitation to join it in eliminating early admissions. In addition, the presidents of eleven elite liberal arts colleges (including Swarthmore, Williams, Barnard, and Amherst) have met to discuss, among other things, collectively eliminating their early admission programs and reducing merit-based aid. Just ... More Evidence of an Antitrust Violation Brewing at Elite Schools
GM/Ford: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
When teaching antitrust as I am this fall, a time always comes during the semester when I need to give my students an example of a merger whose implications for competition are so obviously adverse that the antitrust authorities would surely seek an injunction against the merger under Section 7 of the Clayton Act. My ... GM/Ford: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Gordon Tullock in the National Review
John Miller has a fantastic essay on my colleague Gordon Tullock and his work in law and economics in the September 25 National Review. The following excerpt appears on the GMU Law website (and I believe subscribers can access the full article at the National Review): “Tullock is the author of one of the most ... Gordon Tullock in the National Review
Who Has the Moral High Ground Here?
Life in the inner city can be hard. Jobs are scarce, prices are high, and transportation is difficult, making it hard to travel significant distances to work or shop. So when major retailers announce plans to enter the inner city, hire lots of employees, turn their neighborhoods into shopping destinations (thereby encouraging the creation of ... Who Has the Moral High Ground Here?
Barnett on Antitrust, IP, and Apple at the GMU Antitrust Symposium
Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion on standards for single firm conduct in the United States and the EU at the George Mason Antitrust Symposium, which focused on antitrust issues in the global marketplace (and I might add, was put together quite nicely by the GMU Law Review folks). The ... Barnett on Antitrust, IP, and Apple at the GMU Antitrust Symposium
Another Antitrust Violation in the Making at the Ivies?
Harvard College is cutting its early admissions program. According to the New York Times, which is pleased with this move, Harvard’s purported reasons for cutting the program are as follows: It will make the system fairer because students from sophisticated backgrounds and affluent high schools are far more likely to apply for an early admission ... Another Antitrust Violation in the Making at the Ivies?
Law & Liturgy
I love Ethan Leib’s interesting idea of reading the legal pronouncements of Jewish liturgy in light of later legal developments–and vice versa. Ethan suggests creatively that an allusion to the liturgy of Yom Kippur (the Jewish day of atonement) may be found in Cardozo’s famous opinion in Jacob & Youngs v. Kent: “The willful transgressor ... Law & Liturgy
Interest Rates and Antitrust
Today’s Israeli newspapers have an interesting story about a multibillion dollar antitrust suit that an Israeli manufacturing firm has brought against Israel’s three major banks. The complaint alleges that the banks price colluded on rates, charging identically in five distinct rate categories: a uniform prime rate always 1.5% above the central bank’s; a uniform risk ... Interest Rates and Antitrust
New article on Board vs. Shareholder power
Lynn Stout from UCLA School of Law just posted a paper on SSRN entitled “The Mythical Benefits of Shareholder Control.” The article is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Here’s the abstract: In ‘The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise‘ [also forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review], Professor Lucian Bebchuk argues that the notion that shareholders ... New article on Board vs. Shareholder power
