IdeoBlog
A blog about ideas relating to the law and legal academia.
Author: Law professor Larry E. Ribstein teaches courses on business organizations, market regulation and unincorporated business and securities at the University of Illinois College of Law. He also maintains a blog, Busfilm, focusing on how business is depicted in the movies.
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Recent Posts from IdeoBlog
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The Ring of Brodgar
The Ring of Brodgar Originally uploaded by jo mclure I'm headed here tomorrow (June 27) (do you know where that is?) for a couple of weeks. Blogging will be light to non-existent. Happy 4th of…
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The effect of Heller
I haven’t read Heller, but I did read the WSJ Law Blog, and found out that while there is now no law against owning or buying a gun in DC, there’s a problem: There are…
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A former prosecutor looks at Enron and Bear
Writing in the WSJ, Robert Mintz, now gone over to the other side, says of the Bear hedge fund indictments, [t]his is not Enron, where executives were charged and ultimately convicted of cooking the books*…
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New York C of A affirms on Grasso
Here and here are my earlier posts on the lower court decision and the pending Court of Appeal decision. This is going to make it very hard for NY to prevail against Grasso, since it…
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Illinois sues Countrywide
Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan is suing Countrywide for engaging in “unfair and deceptive practices” in making mortgage loans. "We’ll get unbelievable publicity from being the first state to sue Countrywide, and we want the…
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SOX and investor over-confidence
Yesterday I pointed to a post about a survey showing that executives still thought that SOX was burdensome yet had done nothing to improve ethical standards. Dealbreaker’s John Carney points to the same survey, and…
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Welcome to Flight 666
Passengers are welcome to United-Continental-Delta’s 5 p.m. Flight 666 to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Our boarding process is expected to begin at 6:30. Until then, please listen to these important announcements. To better serve you,…
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WLF on criminalizing business
I've often discussed the problems of what I call criminalizing agency costs. But this is only a part of a broader trend, as the Washington Legal Foundation documents in a report, available on its home…
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Have CEOs adjusted to SOX?
Uh, no.
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Will Skilling walk?
Some commentators see this happening, via a Fifth Circuit decision that might be issued this week. See this Financial Week article (HT Sox First). Of course these sources see such a development with the standard…