From Law360: Egg Donors Get Pay Limits Axed With Antitrust Settlement By Kelly Knaub Law360, New York (February 1, 2016, 7:01 PM ET) -- A class of human-egg donors…
In my black market Rhino horn post yesterday, I mentioned that a recent proposal to legalize a market in sustainably harvested Rhino horn: . . . highlights some pretty standard…
Over at Market Design blog, Al Roth flags an interesting controversy developing in South Africa – whether to abandon the current ban on Rhino horn and horn products, in favor…
Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok discusses a new NBER paper, Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition, by Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund: Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund create a sophisticated…
Our friends at The Conglomerate are hosting a book club discussion on Mehrsa Baradaran's How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy. Posts so far include:…
From BioNews: Egg donors are suing the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) in a class-action lawsuit for setting a 'price cap'…
Contract law scholars may be interested in a new paper, The Relational Economics of Commercial Contract, recently posted to SSRN by Chapin Cimino of Drexel Law School: Abstract: For almost…
Over at Credit Slips, Mark Weidemaier has a nice post on the NY Times recent series on arbitration. From the text: The attention on arbitration also seems a bit disproportionate,…
I mentioned earlier Kweku Adoboli’s recent podcast interview with Lindsay Fortado of the FT, and listening to it has convinced me that, though his career as a trader may be…
With Lindsay Fortado of the FT, that is. Adoboli, who just finished a four-year prison term in connection with his loss of $2.3 billion through unauthorized trades while employed at…