Category: Law Professors  
PrawfsBlawg - February 04, 2012
Administrative law offers a series of magic bullets in which we teach and are told that if only we get something right -- the delegation of authority into separate powers, the
PrawfsBlawg - February 04, 2012
Good morning.  Yesterday, at the VC, Eugene Volokh had a nice post summarizing and linking to the interview Justice Ginsburg gave to Egyptian television, from which the most pseudo-controversial exce
PrawfsBlawg - February 03, 2012
On Monday, Judge Sullivan of the Southern District of New York will hear argument on a preliminary injunction motion in Capitol Records v. ReDigi, a copyright case that could be one of the sleeper hits of the sea
Professor Bainbridge - February 03, 2012
Businessweek: Carlyle Group LP abandoned a plan to ban shareholders from filing class-action lawsuits after U.S. regulators threatene
Professor Bainbridge - February 03, 2012
Regular readers will recall that a while back I opined on the Carlyle Group's aggressive effort to include a mandatory arbitration provision in its foundational documents as it went public. Carlyle has announced that it is going to drop that provision, which prompted an outfit (of which I ha
Professor Bainbridge - February 03, 2012
I hope there's a very funny joke in the backstory to this report from ATL: While other law schools memorialize their noteworthy alumni with their name on a m
Michael Froomkin's Discourse.net - February 03, 2012
I’ll be on the radio today talking about the ‘Internet Kill Switch’ for an hour as part of the Hearsay Culture series on KZSU — in California. The show streams live online at 12 noon P
Mauled Again - February 03, 2012
Tax law complexity is more than a matter of computational gymnastics. Consider the following question, which does not require computations to answer. Is a taxpayer required to include in gross income the value of frequent flyer miles received from a bank for opening an account?The
Law at the End of the Day - February 02, 2012

PrawfsBlawg - February 02, 2012
I'm happy to be invited back to prawfsblawg. I begin my stint in the shadow of both Punxsutawney Phil's prediction of six more weeks of winter and Clinton/Anzizka's promise of filing a dozen more class actions against law schools. Today's news brings my alma mater, DePaul, into the winter of reec
Michael Froomkin's Discourse.net - February 02, 2012
John Battelle: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. –
Professor Bainbridge - February 02, 2012
As I detailed in my article Insider Trading Inside the Beltway, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and former Rep. Brian Baird for years fought an honorable but lonely uphill battle to get people to pay attent
Professor Bainbridge - February 02, 2012
Interesting development. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has announced that: Im pleased that the Senate passed a stronger STOCK Act today
Professor Bainbridge - February 02, 2012
Dealbreaker: $$$ A billionaire polo mogul who ran someone over while [allegedly] driving his Bentley drunk 
Professor Bainbridge - February 02, 2012
CBS News reports that the Senate just passed the STOCK Act to ban Congressional insider trading, but only after subjecting it to 20 proposed amendments: Th