Business/Corporate Law

Berkeley Law receives an A+ in the areas of Criminal Law, Racial Justice an Business Law in the Fall issue of preLaw Magazine.

Professor Adam Badawi co-writes a new paper that finds that 63% of the S&P 500 include ESG components in their calculation of executive compensation and that such goals are almost always met.

“I think that the wild card is if Elon turns Delaware into some kind of cause célèbre for a large set of retail shareholders, given his platform,” said assistant law professor Andrew Baker. “That could happen and become a reason people choose not to incorporate in Delaware,” he said. “But who knows?”

Professor Adam Badawi weighs in on Skydance Media’s acquisition of Paramount Global, and discusses what control an acquiring company can exert over the decisions made by the acquired company during the regulatory review process.

Berkeley Law selected as one of “The 13 Best Law Schools to Jumpstart Your Hollywood Career”

“Bitcoin is mature enough at this point that it doesn’t have that kind of centralized managerial efforts of others. That’s what moves it into that commodity space,” said Hermine Wong, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law and former director of policy at Coinbase.

AI companies should embrace the concept of stakeholder capitalism which says businesses should consider their stakeholder network—not just their shareholders—when making decisions, says Berkeley Law lecturer and alum Jesse Finfrock.

“While it may yield some monetary victories, American antitrust law is a very limited tool to restructure the uneven playing field of American business.” writes Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy.

Jonathan Simon, a criminal justice professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, said businesses probably do have relatively accurate estimates of how much their inventory is shrinking due to theft. And that it’s possible retail theft has increased partially because of online resale platforms, which serve as a conduit for organized theft for profit.

Angeli Patel, executive director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business discusses BlackRock’s ESG policies.