I’m finding this recently released money market fund monitor by the Office of Financial Research to be an interesting bit of new governance. It enables investors and academics to keep track of how the funds are doing, and in so
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BA, et al., at Florida
By Gordon Smith
Florida is hiring in our subject – the announcement is below: The University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law is a national law school at the flagship University of Florida. With the generous support of committed alumni, a…
AALS BA: CFP deadline tomorrow!
By Gordon Smith
Call for Papers – Joint Program with the AALS Section on Business Associations and the AALS Section on Comparative Law The AALS Section on Business Associations and the AALS Section on Comparative Law are pleased to announce a Call for…
Wharton Financial Regulation Spring Conference Call For Papers
By Gordon Smith
I’m putting together a conference with Peter Conti-Brown on the above subject in the spring of 2017, and we thought it might be useful to broaden the context with a call for papers. The call is below: The Wharton School…
Alabama Hiring, In, Inter Alia, Business Law
By Gordon Smith
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF LAW seeks to fill entry-level/junior-lateral tenure-track positions for the 2017-2018 academic year. Candidates must have outstanding academic credentials, including a J.D. from an accredited law school or an equivalent degree (such as a Ph.D.…
DC Circuit Holds That SEC ALJs Are Constitutional
By Gordon Smith
ALJs have endured some controversy, but the merits argument against them was never very strong. The DC Circuit rejects it here.
Trump’s Economic Advisors: “Steve, meet Steve”
By Gordon Smith
Friend-of-the-blog Stephen Bainbridge might be feeling left out of Donald Trump’s team of economic advisors, which is almost half “Steves.” However, he might feel lonely there as an academic, as there is only one other professor in the group.…
Donald Trump vs. the Reality of Team Production
By Gordon Smith
Donald Trump’s interview with George Stephanopoulos has been getting a lot of play, for a variety of reasons. I wanted to focus on one aspect of his comments that is actually a fairly common turn of phrase but that nevertheless…