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Registration is now open for the fall 2026 Law and Finance Workshop series. Please use this form to register. All workshops take place on Fridays from 1pm to 2pm ET via Zoom. Registered participants will receive the draft paper and zoom link one week before each workshop. Law & Finance Workshop Schedule 2026-27 Fall 2026 Friday, August 28 : Jeffrey Zhang (Michigan) & Dan Awrey (Cornell) presenting…
Before I get started on the meat of this week's post, I just want to take a brief moment to say I am honored and delighted that, at the Journal of Corporation Law's invitation, Steve Bainbridge wrote a response to my paper, The Legitimation of Shareholder Primacy . Steve's response, which you can find on SSRN here , is not so much as a rebuttal as it is a complement. (He also has a couple of…
Mitchell Hamline School of Law-a leader in pedagogical innovation dedicated to expanding access to high-quality legal education-is seeking applications for tenured or tenure-track faculty positions beginning July 1, 2027, in the following areas: Business and Commercial Law Intellectual Property Law Lawyering Skills and Experiential Education NALS Institute and Native American Law Our law school is…
What's Working in Your Classroom? Experiential Exercises in Business Law The AALS Section on Transactional Law & Skills is pleased to announce a session at the 2027 AALS Annual Meeting in New York City. The Section invites submissions for a panel highlighting experiential exercises across the business law curriculum. We welcome exercises used in courses including Business Associations, Contracts,…
Anticipated appointment date: August 1, 2027. Teaching responsibilities are based on Baylor Law's curricular needs and applicant's experience; however, the primary teaching responsibility is expected to include upper-level courses in trusts and estates, wealth transfers, estate planning, marital property, and estate administration. Research responsibilities include developing and implementing a…
THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications for positions on the tenured/tenure-track faculty to begin in August 2027. The College welcomes applications from scholars in all subject areas of the law but has particular interests in hiring in the following areas: bankruptcy and commercial law, corporate and business law, contracts, civil procedure, and property law. The University…
My most recent article on blockchain fraud, The Inadequacy of Equitable Remedies for Blockchain Fraud , 95 Miss. L.J. 1144 (2026) , was recently released by the Mississippi Law Journal . Written for the 2025 Remedies Forum hosted in Budapest, Hungary, this article follows on an earlier work I featured here on the BLPB in June , co-authored with a former student. The SSRN abstract is set forth…
Villanova University Charles Widger School of law seeks an outstanding educator-scholar to join its faculty beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year. We welcome applications from all candidates with a particular interest in candidates who teach and write in business law (e.g. business organizations, securities regulation, or corporate finance) and/or contracts/commercial law. For additional…
POSITION NOTICE PROPERTY AND REAL ESTATE ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE LAW PROFESSOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE WINSTON COLLEGE OF LAW THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE WINSTON COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications from both entry-level and lateral candidates at the assistant or associate professor level for one full-time, tenure-track faculty position to begin at the start of the 2027-28 academic year. The…
As most readers are aware, in 1995, Congress passed the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA), which, among other things, sought to eliminate a perceived "race to the courthouse" whereby plaintiffs' attorneys rushed to file complaints the moment a company's stock price dropped, in hopes that the first filer would take control of a class action. Now, if multiple plaintiffs and counsel…
