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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?
India, the UK, and US law firms
The Law Blog reports that India is considering letting in U.K. law firms after long barring all foreign law firms from having offices in India. The LB notes that the UK would have to reciprocate by allowing Indian firms and that “[i]t’s unclear whether U.S. firms would be invited to the party.” Well, I imagine ... India, the UK, and US law firms
The Hastings strategic plan
The plan (HT Leiter) has got everything, down to thinking about a mascot and faculty op-eds. But I don’t see any planning for the future of legal education in the new legal information industry Hasting’s students will have to confront. This would seem to be sufficiently “strategic” to deserve some consideration. Here’s something they might look ... The Hastings strategic plan
ABA Roundtable Discussion Tomorrow on the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
As I have posted before, I was disappointed that the DOJ filed against AT&T in its bid to acquire T-Mobile. The efficacious provision of mobile broadband service is a complicated business, but it has become even more so by government’s meddling. Responses like this merger are both inevitable and essential. And Sprint and Cellular South piling on doesn’t help ... ABA Roundtable Discussion Tomorrow on the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Small business, partnership law and software
Two partners form a business in 1995 for providing dial up internet service to rural Wisconsin. Their relationship deteriorates and in 1999 one (Bushard) withdraws, writing a letter expressly dissolving the partnership. (The letter presciently noted that “this is an optimal time for selling the business at maximum value.” Indeed, a firm had expressed a ... Small business, partnership law and software
Concluding Unlocking the Law
It’s been a great symposium. Many thanks to all of our outstanding contributors! This Symposium demonstrated blogging’s potential for productive intellectual discussion of an important current topic. We expect to have more such virtual conferences. We’ll have a wrap-up tomorrow of all of the posts here. I will offer some reactions after I’ve had time ... Concluding Unlocking the Law
Robert Crandall on It Is Time to Move Ahead with Deregulation
As we approach the end of this Symposium, I am struck by how much consensus exists on this subject. Of course, we are not conducting this exercise under the auspices of the ABA. Nevertheless, there is sufficient intellectual backing for a major push to begin the deregulation of legal services. Despite warnings that this is ... Robert Crandall on It Is Time to Move Ahead with Deregulation
Bruce Kobayashi on Copyrighting Law and Deregulation
My first post discussed one primary impediment to deregulating all the lawyers – which is the current system of legal regulation of lawyers. Even if one agrees that deregulating all the lawyers may be the ultimate goal, this still leaves the question of how best to achieve this result. Deregulating all the lawyers may not ... Bruce Kobayashi on Copyrighting Law and Deregulation
James Cooper on Antitrust Treatment of Expansive Interpretations of Ethical Rules
Attorneys earn excess rents by maintaining barriers to entering the legal profession. Legislation and regulation expanding the scope of work that only an attorney legally can perform is an obvious way in which attorneys attempt to expand or protect the market for their services. The FTC has a long history of trying to convince state ... James Cooper on Antitrust Treatment of Expansive Interpretations of Ethical Rules
Nuno Garoupa on Reforming Legal Professions In East Asia
The traditional narrative is that Asian jurisdictions have fewer lawyers than in the West because they are much less litigious societies; they don’t need lawyers! Recent evidence has suggested the causation is probably reversed; there are not enough lawyers to provide services to all potential litigants. Legal markets in East Asia were largely kept closed ... Nuno Garoupa on Reforming Legal Professions In East Asia
Renee Newman Knake on Corporations, the Delivery of Legal Services, and the First Amendment Part II
In Part I of this post, I identified a jurisprudential thread of cases that suggest corporations have a First Amendment right to own and invest in law practices for the delivery legal services. These decisions include NAACP v. Button, the union trilogy, and Bates v. State Bar of Arizona. Two recent cases shed light on ... Renee Newman Knake on Corporations, the Delivery of Legal Services, and the First Amendment Part II
Benjamin Barton on The Lawyer-Judge Bias
First, thanks to TOTM for organizing this symposium on a most timely and important topic. As computers and technology have revolutionized every aspect of human endeavor it is a particularly critical time to ask ourselves why 21st century law schools closely resemble the law schools of the late-19th century and why in court litigation would ... Benjamin Barton on The Lawyer-Judge Bias
