IdeoBlog
"A blog about ideas. Ideas are not beliefs or opinions." Posts focus on business and securities law, economics, and sometimes legal education.
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.
Blawg Related Categories: Corporate Law • Law Professors • Law Schools • Media & Communications Law • Securities Law • University of Illinois • Law Professor • Business Law • Economics
Recent Posts from IdeoBlog
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Jurisdictional competition for LLCs at CELS
This Saturday morning at 9:00 A.M. PST Bruce Kobayashi and I will be presenting our paper Jurisdictional Competition for LLCs at the Conference for Empirical Legal Studies. If you're at the conference, then be there!…
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Buying the moon
There's water on the moon. Per the WSJ, "[w]ater's availability would . . . make further human exploration of the moon possible, since the water could be used to generate oxygen, as well as to…
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Meet the new law school: same as the old law school?
Here's the discussion so far. More in this vein from Erik Gerding: [T]he changing and increasingly ruthless economics of legal education will place faculty governance under incredible stress. Law schools that cannot react nimbly to…
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Autumn dusk in Chicago
Taken with my iPhone.
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Health care reform stories
Andrew Heinze, writing in today's WSJ, has one. He's paying $2,000 a year for a hospitalization-only policy as a self-employed writer in NYC. Health insurance in NY is very expensive because NY prohibits insurers from…
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The shrinking and deleveraging of Big Law
aSpeaking of the Death of Big Law, the National Law Journal reports (HT ABA Journal) from its NLJ 250 survey (based on an attorney census covering 10/1/2008-9/30/2009) that Big Law significantly shrank and decreased partner-associate…
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The future of law school
Eric Gerding wrote a couple of days ago about the "Death of 'Big Law School.'" He has some dismal predictions of what the Death of Big Law (taking off from my paper) means for legal…
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Shut the door, have a seat
As everyone surely knows, this was the title of the last episode of season 3 of Mad Men. I've previously covered the anti-capitalist aspects of this show, but have come to realize that it's too…
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More on the hedge fund acquittal
I said yesterday that I would be posting more on the acquittal of the Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, but John Carney says it for me: [W]hen taken in context, the evidence provided actually indicated…
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A win for the Bear Stearns defendants
The jury completely rejected the government's misbegotten prosecution of the Bear Stearns hedge fund managers. I expect to have more to say later about this case.