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Recent News and Events
A summary of BCLBE’s “Workshops on the Development of the China Domestic Private Equity Industry” which were held in April in Beijing and Shanghai are now available for download.
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Eric Talley moderated the Morrison & Foerster LLP Legal Workshop: Overview of Legal Issues and Strategies for Social Enterprises at the Haas School of Business Center for Responsible Business Global Social
Venture Competition's 2008 Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship. link
On April 25, BCLBE and the Institute for Global Challenges and the Law co-sponsored a Workshop on "The International Outsourcing of the Legal Profession." Ken Taymor moderated a panel on "Obstacles to Outsourcing."
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Hon. Guido Calabresi, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, delivered the inaugural UCB Endowed Lecture in Law and
Economics, entitled "Toward a Unified Theory of Torts."
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Eric Talley spoke at the ABA Bar Association Program entitled "BEYOND LEGAL: A Business Approach to Corporate Governance," in New York City on May 8. more
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| LATEST NEWS |
| Summer 2008
John Patrick Hunt comments on the SEC's proposal for increasing transparency and reducing conflicts of interest at credit rating agencies: The SEC's Proposed Rating Agency Rules: Unresolved Conflicts
Eric Talley contributed several chapters and appendices to a recently published RAND Monograph: In the Name of Entrepreneurship? The Logic and Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Business. more
Jesse Fried (with Brian Broughman) has written "Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms" which examines factors contributing to common shareholders ability to defeat
liquidation preferences.
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Jesse Fried's article, "Hands-Off Options," proposes revising stock option plans to limit executives' ability and incentive to manipulate stock price at times of option award and exercise. more
Forthcoming later this spring is the book, Experimental Law and Economics, edited by Jennifer Arlen and Eric Talley. This book
collects some of the leading articles on Experimental Law and Economics:
experiments that focus specifically on how individual actors respond to their legal environment. more
Eric Talley co-authored (with James D. Cox of Duke University) an analysis of the landmark In Re Walt Disney Company Derivative
Litigation. more
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Fall 2008
"Executive Compensation: New Thinking on Tying Pay to Performance"
Executive compensation continues to attract considerable attention, much of it critical, from shareholder activists, the press, and Congress.
This one day conference will be led by BCLBE Faculty Co-director Jesse Fried. more
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