Month: July 2011

A year ago, during the first Conglomerate Masters Forum on Dodd-Frank, many of the commenters, including me, were critical of the legislation.  I was not alone in my complaints that…

Dodd-Frank turns one today and there is a forum going on at The Conglomerate to mark the occasion.  I’ll be participating, as I did in last year’s Glom forum to…

This year William and Mary's Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference will meet a little ways away from Williamsburg, where is it usually held, ... in Beijing, on October 14 and 15.…

I had a lively conversation yesterday with my friend and colleague Leslie Garfield about electronic gadgetry and law faculty etiquette (she scores well in both categories, I must add).  Here…

From Law360 (subscription required for full article access): Law360, New York (July 18, 2011) -- The American Society for Reproductive Medicine on Friday asked a California federal court to throw…

Loyola University (Chicago) seeks nominations and applications for an endowed chair in international law.  Additional info here. 

My friend Mike Koehler has a "new and improved" website for his blog devoted to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  Here's the link.

Updated:  July 18 It would appear that the correct answer is ... "he won't."  Apparently former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray will get the nod.  Story here.   Will President…

Time for a little fun on a Sunday in July, which ought to be a time of rest, I suppose, but for a lot of us is the heart of…

Via Dr. Goose:  Warning to Washington  Said the national raters of credit: "The Congress appears not to get it; We may downgrade a notch While we wait and we watch…