Posted on: August 28, 2013

At the New York Times's Economix blog, Bruce Bartlett examines the charitable donation tax deduction, its policy implications and future.

Part 1 (August 20, 2013) can be found here.  Part 2 (August 27, 2013) appeared yesterday here.

Tag: Taxation
Posted on: August 28, 2013

Elliot Dater and his colleagues at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP have a new blog, the Pittsburgh-Israel Business Report, addressing business and business law issues related to Israel and the greater Middle East.

Category:
Tag: Comparative Law, Intellectual Property, International Law, Technology & Law
Posted on: August 24, 2013

Chapters 12 (Administrative Law) and 13 (International Law) of Business Law Basics are now available online here and here.

Tag: Professional News
Posted on: August 19, 2013

In In re Trados Inc. Shareholders Litig., C.A. No. 1512-VCL (Del. Ch. Aug. 16, 2013), the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a VC-backed board’s approval of a merger in which the company’s common stockholders received nothing was entirely fair despite the merger having been approved as part of an unfair process in which the interests of the company’s preferred stockholders were favored over the holders of common stock.

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Tag: Business Ethics, Corporations, Equity / Chancery, Fiduciary Duties
Posted on: August 14, 2013

At Bloomberg.com, Dan Akroyd explains the complex ending of Trading Places, a movie which gave a (pre-Internet and now outdated) glimpse of the commodities trading markets

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Tag: Business Ethics, Commerce, Contracts, Legal History
Posted on: August 14, 2013

In conjunction with the publication of Chapter 11 of Business Law Basics, a round-up of quotes about the U.S. Constitution:

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Tag: Constitutional Law, Legal History, Legal Theory

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