Recent Publications
Publications
This page highlights the most recent publications by BCLBE's faculty. For a complete list of publications, follow these links for Faculty and Affiliated Faculty.
November 2009
Anita K. Krug comments on the Obama administration's proposal for the regulation of hedge fund investment advisers in, "The Private Fund Adviser Registration Act."
October 2009
Eric Talley writes, "On Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Contractual Conditions." This article uses the recent Delaware Chancery Court case of Hexion v. Huntsman as a template for motivating thoughts about how contract law should interpret contractual conditions in general—and MAC/MAE provisions in particular—within environments of extreme ambiguity (as opposed to risk).
July 2009
Research Fellow Anita K. Krug discusses the Obama Administration's proposals on financial regulatory reform relating to hedge funds and other private funds and proposes considerations that should inform Congress's formulation of policy in "Financial Regulatory Reform and Private Funds."
June 2009
Professor Eric Talley & Johan Walden write an executive summary titled, “The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program: An Appraisal.” The report can be found on pages 59 – 101 within the Congressional Oversight Panel’s June report, “Stress Testing and Shoring Up Bank Capital.”
May 2009
"An Economic Analysis of Transnational Bankruptcies," by Andrew Guzman. A study of the effects of the legal rules governing transnational bankruptcies; including an analysis of who gains and who loses from territoriality, explanation of why countries engage in it even though it reduces global welfare, and identifying what can be done to achieve universality.
April 2009
Eric Talley publishes, "Public Ownership, Firm Governance, and Litigation Risk," in the University of Chicago Law Review.