Employment Discrimination: Law and Theory

The per se rule against specific enforcement of personal service contracts is well established under Anglo-American contract law. At the same time...

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

The number of law firm partners who identify as women has more than doubled since 1993. Will these gender parity advances regress as employers curb...

As our nation emerges from the shadow of COVID-19, the general public is coming to grips with a stark reality looming over our public schools...

In Cantero v. Bank of America, the US Supreme Court declined to decide whether Bank of America Corp. must pay interest on New York mortgage borrowers’...

In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past...

Anyone who studies trade secret law in depth knows that the field is complex and nuanced. That complexity can be intimidating to novices. Accordingly...

Anyone who studies patent law in depth knows that the field is complex and nuanced. That complexity can be intimidating to novices. Accordingly, the...

There have been many many, many proposals to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine. Russia’s invasion violated international law; reparations are...

After several years of dramatic growth, ESG investing seems to have entered a period of retrenchment.  While it is impossible to predict the future...

Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...

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

Consequential damages have been a cornerstone of contract doctrine since the broken crankshaft in Hadley v. Baxendale. And the Hadley rule is one of...

Contract terms that improve or reduce the likelihood of repayment of a debt should impact its price. That’s basic economics. But what about a contract...

This paper studies institutional investors' decision-making using novel data from a major proxy advisor. We highlight the significant role of...

Engaging New Cases: The book uses fresh, timely cases in agency and partnership to show how business law is relevant in a variety of practices...

Employment contract law is an antiquated, ill-fitting, incoherent mess. But no one seems inclined to fix this problem. Employment law scholars...

Over the past quarter century, Congress has enacted several major reforms for retirement plans and individual retirement accounts, usually with large...