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...

Academic Economic Espionage?

Elizabeth A. Rowe

In 2018 then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that Chinese espionage was occurring in university research labs, and the Department of Justice...

Intimate Privacy in a Post-Roe World

Danielle K. Citron

Now that the Supreme Court has revoked the constitutional right to reproductive autonomy, we must reckon with the risks that our surveillance economy...

Business Associations: A Modern Approach

Cathy Hwang

Paolo Saguato

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...

Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance

Michael Doran

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

An obscure 1800s law is shaping up to be the center of the next abortion battle – legal scholars explain what’s behind the Victorian-era Comstock Act

Sonia Suter

Naomi R. Cahn

Anti-abortion groups are looking for new ways to wage their battle against abortion rights, eyeing the potential implications of a 150-year-old law...

Informal Sperm Donation and Reproductive Justice

Naomi R. Cahn

Sonia Suter

In the aftermath of Dobbs, as barriers to accessing fertility care increase, one area of growing interest is informal (“DIY”) sperm donation, which...

The Supreme Court rules mifepristone can remain available – here’s how 2 conflicting federal court decisions led to this point

Naomi R. Cahn

Sonia Suter

The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling on April 21, 2023, that allows continued access to the abortion pill mifepristone in states where...

Nonparty Interests in Contract Law

Cathy Hwang

Omri Ben-Shahar

David A. Hoffman

Contract law has one overarching goal: to advance the legitimate interests of the contracting parties. For the most part, scholars, judges, and...

The Article III "Party" and the Originalist Case Against Corporate Diversity Jurisdiction

Lawrence B. Solum

Mark Moller

Federal courts control an outsize share of big-ticket corporate litigation. And that control rests, to a significant degree, on the Supreme Court’s...

Bounded Extraterritoriality

Michael S. Knoll

Ruth Mason

Politics in the United States is ever more divided, stymying federal legislation. States have responded to this political polarization and...

Medication abortion could get harder to obtain - or easier: There's a new wave of post-Dobbs lawsuits on abortion pills

Naomi R. Cahn

Sonia Suter

Medication abortion now accounts for more than half of all abortions in the United States. Typically, patients take a two different pills: first...

National Security Creep in Corporate Transactions

Kristen Eichensehr

Cathy Hwang

National security review of corporate transactions has long been a relatively sleepy corner of regulatory policy. But as governments merge economic...

Alzheimer’s, Advance Directives, and Interpretive Authority

Charles Barzun

Philosophers have debated whether the advance directives of Alzheimer’s patients should be enforced, even if patients seem content in their demented...

Do Investors Care about Municipal Debtors’ Access to Bankruptcy? Evidence from Bond Disclosures

G. Mitu Gulati

Richard C. Schragger

A key question in the academic and policy debates over the optimal architecture for sovereign debt has long been whether sovereigns should be given...

Why Are Corporate Boards Doing the Opposite of What Consumers Want?

Julia D. Mahoney

Kimberly Whitler

Mary Kate Cary

CEOs must make decisions that are right for the company, not for themselves.

CEOs Have Real Incentives To Promote ESG

Michal Barzuza

Quinn Curtis

David Webber

Chief executive officers bear significant non-diversifiable personal risks from environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) setbacks...

The Problem of “Relevant Experience”

Craig Konnoth

In their intriguing article “Bioethics and the Moral Authority of Experience,” Nelson and colleagues (2023) provide important insight into an...