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In this chapter, we put forth a case study of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. We detail the legal and contractual issues that arose as the parties...

This chapter examines national security implications in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. It details the rise in prominence of...

In May 2025, an important and largely unnoticed development occurred in the corporate-law competition among states. In response to Delaware’s SB 21...

The Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of Nevada’s statutory amendments, legislative history, and case law. It shows that Nevada...

In today's global markets, commercial contracts are the backbone of complex financial and corporate transactions. Yet despite their centrality, these...

The Department of Defense's struggles to obtain repair rights from private contractors have reached crisis levels, with military personnel facing...

Academic and market interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has grown markedly in recent years. Although less prominent, a...

Incentives for individuals to save for retirement currently total 1.5% of US GDP. For that substantial investment, we get a system that actually...

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump suggested that there could be “an interesting problem” with the Treasury market that would justify non...

We teach entrepreneurship law clinics in which our students do transactional work on a wide range of matters, including business formation, contracts...

When governments issue bonds they usually have to provide plenty of disclosure to entice investors. These days this often includes information on the...

Although ethical critiques of markets are longstanding, modern academic debates about the ‘moral limits of markets’ (MLM) tend to be fairly limited in...

Corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) has a tax problem. The field encourages companies to do more for society than the minimum that is legally...

Crosspollination between the transitional justice (tj) and business and human rights (B&H) fields has led to a growing scholarly focus on the role of...

The recently-announced $50 billion loan package from the G7 nations to Ukraine fell short of the $300 billion or so hoped for by the designers of its...

This Article shows that, contrary to the recommendation of much recent legal scholarship, courts rarely found that business restrictions during the...

The regulatory framework for financial advisors is fragmented, with multiple state and federal regulators. Prior empirical literature on financial...

In a new paper, we present a novel theory of “purposeful enterprise” to explain why nonprofit enterprises survive and thrive. We define nonprofit...