Corporate & Securities Law

post-mortem
The MPRE is over. I honestly have no idea how it went. What I do know is that I’m back to editing. Editing editing editing.

The New Casebook is Here!
The new edition of my casebook, with my friend and co-author Cindy Williams, arrived via express mail today. If you...

Supreme Court Cites Lysander Spooner!:
In editing Heller for the supplement to my new casebook, Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (Aspen 2008), I noticed a reference to the great Lysander Spooner in Justice Scalia's....

A Cheaper Casebook
I recently received an email from our Lexis casebook rep. Lexis is preparing certain casebooks in a looseleaf from (much like what profs have always been able to get) and will be making these available at about a 40% reduction...

Innovative or Insulting, the Anime Torts Casebook
The ABA Journal is reporting that California Western law prof and assistant dean James Cooper wants to produce an animated casebook "to help make the law more accessible," explaining "I'd take the top 15 cases of tort law--famous cases in...

Murphy meet editing
Murphy’s law on writing & proofreading: Muphry?s Law dictates that (a) if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written; (b) if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book; (c) the stronger [...