Corporate & Securities Law

Unbundling Begins in Missouri
The Missouri Bar Family Law Conference this week hosted a session explaining Missouri's new Supreme Court rule on unbundling of legal services. The rule provides for express approval of attorney provisions of limited task representation and provides, in the comments,...

Recently Published Scholarship: Arbitration
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Volume 41, Issue 4, Summer 2008 Symposium: Empirical Studies of Mandatory Arbitration Omri Ben-Shahar, Introduction, How Bad Are Mandatory Arbitration Terms?, p...

A Quick-and-Dirty Empirical Defense of Prediction Markets:
From the comments, it seems that some readers would find empirical evidence more persuasive than theoretical arguments. Consider the figure below. It aggregates a total of 145,388 trades on Major League...

Black on Empirical Evidence of Institutional Investor Monitoring
The Value of Institutional Investor Monitoring: The Empirical Evidence, by BERNARD S. BLACK, University of Texas at Austin School of Law; McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), was recently posted on SSRN...

New Empirical Legal Studies Bibliographic Database
Matt Morrison (Cornell Law Library) writes "Empirical legal studies are increasingly important in the legal academy as it evolves to become more interdisciplinary. Moreover, empirical legal scholarship has direct relevance to the discussions of legal issues in today's public and...

Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth
James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer have authored a new book presenting a careful empirical analysis of whether patent rights encourage innovation. Their conclusion: for the most part, today's patent system does not achieve its stated goal...

Bayer CropScience AG
alleging farmers suffered economic losses after Bayer's biotech Liberty Link rice was released into the food supply and countries banned US rice.