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Family Film Blogging Summer Wrap-Up: Turbo and Planes 27 Aug 2013 | 12:49 am
Today is the first day of classes at Illinois, and the second week of school for the kids. So, I have a few minutes to sum up the last two summer movies that we saw in August: Turbo and Planes. To ...
DOJ Still Thinking About Some Financial Crisis Cases 26 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
If you didn't see it, the Wall Street Journal brings word, straight from Eric Holder's mouth, that yes, there will be some financial crisis cases brought. The AG said: ....anybody who's inflicted da...
GiveDirectly: What if We Just Gave People Fish? 24 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm
Researching microfinance for the past four years, I have read and heard the adage about teaching people how to fish countless times. The essence of microfinance is that providing business capital is ...
Georgia State Position Open 24 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
My neighbor to the north has a position open, favoring laterals, that may be of interest to our readers: Georgia State University College of Law seeks highly qualified applicants for a tenure-track f...
More On Self-Funding 21 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
It was one of Mary Schapiro's chief goals as SEC Chair (see this testimony to Congress begging for the ability to assess fees on public corporations), but Congress likes having purse strings to hold o...
The Fed Shows The SEC Why It Is So Wise 20 Aug 2013 | 01:41 pm
It is because, to channel Nietzsche, the Fed "writes such good books." The good book-length rule* it wrote on Friday puts companies overseen by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the Dodd-Fra...
Call for Papers: AALS Financial Institutions Section - Deadline Soon 20 Aug 2013 | 04:44 am
Here is a repost of an earlier call for papers from the AALS Section for Financial Institutions & Consumer Financial Services with a submissions deadline of September 3. Call for Papers AALS Joint P...
Lucian Bebchuk, et al.'s Full-Throated Defense Of Activist Shareholders 19 Aug 2013 | 11:50 pm
If you haven't seen it, Bebchuk, Brav, and Jiang have a paper out basically arguing that every argument made against activist investors is wrong. The paper is here, and the summary is here. If the ...
ASU's Fifth Annual Aspiring Law Professors Conference -- Sept. 28, 2013 18 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
For those of you going through the FAR conference this Fall or thinking about it in the near future, here is information on the upcoming Arizona State Aspiring Law Professors Conference. I'll be ther...
Hiring Announcement: UNLV 16 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
UNLV is after the jump. The Lee Business School at UNLV, an AACSB accredited college at both undergraduate and graduate levels, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track, 9-month, Assistant/...
