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Further Empirical Evidence on Forum Shopping in Philadelphia Civil Courts
Late last year, with support from the International Center for Law and Economics, I published a paper that empirically analyzed the Philadelphia civil court system. That study focused upon the Philade… more →
Truth on the Market
Professor Greg Mankiw: If You Value Inidividual Liberty, then Protect, Promote, and Preserve Competition Between Governments
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wrote 1 month ago: Other than my experiment dealing with corporate taxation, the first video I narrated for the Center … more →
Further Empirical Evidence on Forum Shopping in Philadelphia Civil Courts
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wrote 3 months ago: Late last year, with support from the International Center for Law and Economics, I published a pape … more →
Another Much-Needed Defense of Tax Competition and Tax Havens by a British Politician
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wrote 4 months ago: I sometimes make fun of the English, for reasons ranging from asinine laws to milquetoast politician … more →
The EU and jurisdictional competition for hedge fund regulation
wrote 5 months ago: The NYT reports: When he rejected a new European accord on Friday that would bind the continent ever … more →
The emerging venue battle in El Paso/Kinder Morgan
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wrote 7 months ago: T-R’s Alison Frankel writes (HT Pileggi) about dueling suits in Texas and Delaware challenging … more →
Law as a Byproduct in Munich
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wrote 7 months ago: I’m off to the International conference on “Regulatory Competition in Contract Law and Dispute Resol … more →
Debating the business judgment rule
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wrote 8 months ago: Alison Frankel gripes about a NJ judge’s ruling throwing out a shareholders’ derivative … more →
New on SSRN: Preemption and Choice-of-Law Coordination
wrote 8 months ago: My new paper with Erin O’Hara O’Connor has just been posted. The paper analyzes preempt … more →
The legislative response to Olmstead
wrote 8 months ago: I wrote last year about how the Florida Supreme Court had messed with the LLC “charging order … more →
Are Tax Havens Moral or Immoral?
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wrote 9 months ago: Being the world’s self-appointed defender of so-called tax havens has led to some rather bizar … more →
When Germany and France Both Agree on Something, You Can Safely Assume It Is a Terrible Idea
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wrote 9 months ago: I’ve joked on many occasions that bipartisanship occurs in Washington when the evil party and … more →
Government spending, cargo cults, and rules for growth
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wrote 9 months ago: When the debate about the debt ceiling and spending gets past name-calling to real issues, it’ … more →
The arbitration (and death?) of securities class actions
wrote 9 months ago: Barbara Black has suggested that the time may have come to reconsider arbitration of federal securit … more →
New on SSRN: Kobayashi and Ribstein on private lawmaking
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wrote 10 months ago: The paper, with Kobayashi, is Law As A Byproduct: Theories Of Private Law Production. Here’s … more →
LLCs vs. corporations: explaining state variations in formations
wrote 10 months ago: The literature on the state “market” for LLC law is growing. Bruce Kobayashi and I publ … more →
New York and the market for marriage law
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wrote 11 months ago: NY’s decision to fully legalize same sex marriage (here’s a useful news roundup) can be … more →
Moving the Merc?
wrote 11 months ago: I’ve been writing (here and here) about Illinois’s troubles, in a mobile, multi-jurisdic … more →
Taxing, spending and jurisdictional competition
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wrote 11 months ago: Back in January Illinois raised corporate taxes to, as I said then, “try to bail Illinois out … more →
Securities class actions in state court
wrote 12 months ago: I’ve previously written about the increasingly unruly market for corporate law, in which many … more →
