Business/Corporate Law

Amelia Miazad, founding Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Business in Society Institute, says she envisions the Institute’s new partnership with Paul, Weiss bridging the gap between theoretical discussions about ESG and what’s actually happening within companies

Professor David Oppenheimer, Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law,  says he believes the decision in Diaz v. Tesla case is the largest verdict in an individual race discrimination in employment case

Professor Amelia Miazad and Dave Curran, executive director of Paul, Weiss’ new ESG and Law Institute (with which the Business in Society Institute is the inaugural academic partner), write legal teams can’t wait for legal education to catch up – they need to hire people now who have ESG knowledge and skills

Professor Robert Bartlett discusses the SEC’s investigation of Activision Blizzard Inc. and says the agency was targeting the executives to get to the bottom of what Activision Blizzard’s leadership knew internally about allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination

Professor Robert Bartlett discusses ways to push companies to change in accordance with shareholder goals of socially responsible investing

Professor Frank Partnoy discusses Nate Anderson and his upstart firm, Hindenburg Research, and says Anderson “seems fearless, even when going after some of the biggest corporate targets”

Professor Robert Bartlett discusses a new study he co-authored, “Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era,” which found rate disparities in the mortgage market that appeared unrelated to creditworthiness

Amelia Miazad, founding Director and Senior Research Fellow of the Business in Society Institute, says the idea of corporate purpose has been very ambiguous, but tying executives’ incentives to purpose-led goals is an obvious way to signal that companies are taking it seriously

Professor Frank Partnoy discovers just how easy it is to buy cryptocurrencies and crypto assets — and just how hard it is to get out

Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon says Allen & Co.’s Sun Valley “summer camp” has become the biggest matchmaking service for media companies