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Post date: Posted on: May 22, 2015

Benjamin Barton, Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, has a piece at CNN about recent trends in the legal market, and why, though bad for many individual lawyers, these tre

Tags: Legal History, Legal Industry
Post date: Posted on: March 27, 2015

We have posted previously about the emerging field of “space law”—here, here, and here.<

Tags: Administrative Law, Commerce, Commercial Transactions, International Law, Legal Industry, Technology & Law, Torts
Post date: Posted on: February 28, 2015

At the Library of Law and Liberty blog, professor John McGinnis posits that “technological shock” is the most important cause of the six year decline in law school applications:

Tags: Law & Economics, Legal Industry, Technology & Law
Post date: Posted on: February 27, 2015

Aeon Magazine reports on something that would have been considered the wildest sort of speculative fiction a few short years ago, but now is on the verge of being viable: Distributed Autonomous Corporations (DACs), 

Tags: Alternative Business Entities, Corporations, Equity / Chancery, Fiduciary Duties, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, Technology & Law
Post date: Posted on: January 31, 2015

The economy during the past few years has not been kind to legal education. We have noted numerous times the critiques of, cuts and trends in, and future of legal education.

Tags: Legal Industry
Post date: Posted on: January 30, 2015

Business Insider analyzes a controversial and sensitive topic by utlizing a sensational and intentionally provocative headline: "Why Law School Is A Waste Of Money Unless You Get Into A Top Sc

Tags: Legal Industry
Post date: Posted on: January 30, 2015

In Stanford Social Innovation Review, Kate Cooney, Justin Koushyar, Matthew Lee, & Haskell Murray have published a study on new forms of business entities entitled "Benefit Cor

Tags: Alternative Business Entities, Corporations, Fiduciary Duties, Legal Theory, Securities, Social Entrepreneurship
Post date: Posted on: December 12, 2014

At China Law Blog, Dan Harris writes about a disturbing feature of Chinese law whereby representatives of foreign

Tags: Business Ethics, Commercial Litigation, Comparative Law, Courts, International Law, Legal Theory

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