I’ve been writing some about international financial regulation this year. Here’s my take on what IFR tells us about international law, which it isn’t, but which in practice it, in some ways, resembles. It’s up at SSRN, and I
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Congrats to Vic Fleischer!
By Gordon Smith
Glom emeritus, friend, and tax guru Vic Fleischer is headed for Capitol Hill to become become co-chief tax counsel for Senate Finance Committee Democrats. Congrats to Vic–and to the Senate!
UGA Law is Hiring in Business!
By Gordon Smith
Readers, the University of Georgia is a terrific institution, and Athens is a lovely place to live. Interested in being my colleague? Send us a line! The University of Georgia School of Law invites applications to fill one or more…
Wharton Is Hiring In Business Ethics
By Gordon Smith
The announcement is below, do tell your friends, and we welcome applications from JDs. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position in its Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics. The…
Your Beach Reading: Financial Reform’s Internationalism
By Gordon Smith
I’ve posted on SSRN my article on the way Dodd-Frank deals with our new era of global capital markets. Financial reform has rebalanced the power of international engagement, reducing the role of the President and his diplomats, and increasing…
Call for Papers: Ethics in Business Transactions
By Gordon Smith
The AALS Section on Transactional Law and Skills is seeking paper proposals for its program on “Ethics in Business Transactions” at the 2017 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. This program will feature a panel discussion to be followed by…
The SEC Pinterest Page
By Gordon Smith
From Corp Counsel, I’m guessing you all want to see the SEC Pinterest page. Prettiest pictures I think I’ve ever seen on Pinterest.
Michigan Supreme Court Embraces Corpus Linguistics
By Gordon Smith
In the case of People v. Harris, the Michigan Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the United States to embrace corpus linguistics. (I have written here about Justice Thomas Lee’s concurrence in the Utah Supreme Court’s…
Michael Jensen and the Continuing Doubts about Shareholder Primacy
By Gordon Smith
Last night, as part of the NPR Marketplace series “The Price of Profits,” a report by Scott Tong provided an intellectual history of shareholder primacy, from Milton Friedman through Gordon Gekko and on to the present. The overview…
Boston Tenure Track: Bentley
By Gordon Smith
See below: it’s a good group there: The Bentley University Law Taxation and Financial Planning Department has been approved to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor. The position is funded to begin teaching in the fall of 2017, with a July…