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Memo to aspiring academics--legal and otherwise--us Boomer old farts aren't going to go away quietly

2013-06-17T15:16:14-07:00

UCLA FA blog reports: Inside Higher Ed today carries an article about surveys of faculty who say they don't plan to retire at the "normal" age or maybe ever. The work-til-you-drop response is...

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Speaking of whistle blowers, can your attorney not only blow the whistle on you but also collect an SEC bounty for doing so?

2013-06-17T14:52:12-07:00

Very interesting post by Lawrence West on "attorneys as award-seeking SEC whistleblowers": This is a primer on attorneys as award-seeking SEC whistleblowers. It digests the relevant law and explains...

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Blowing the whistle: Why the smear campaign against Snowden matters

2013-06-17T14:48:27-07:00

In the prior post, I noted that former SEC inspector general David Weber who was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption and sexual shenanigans at the agency has been vindicated by a very...

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David Weber vindicated

2013-06-17T14:11:37-07:00

Last fall we reported on the travails of former SEC inspector general David Weber who was allegedly fired after blowing the whistle on sexual shenanigans at the SEC. Broc Romanek now reports that: As...

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Supreme Court to tackle disparate impact

2013-06-17T14:05:01-07:00

The US Supreme Court has granted cert in Mount Holly v. Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc. (SCOTUSblog file of pleadings here). As Roger Clegg observes: The Center for Equal Opportunity and...

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Interesting Pentagon fact of the day

2013-06-17T13:31:58-07:00

Who are the 3 highest paid officials on the Pentagon budget? The Football Coaches http://t.co/LabFdmTFeB via @TylerCowen — Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) June 17, 2013 I wonder if the sequester would...

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Why Citizens United might save us from the NSA

2013-06-17T10:33:05-07:00

Wendy Kaminer: If progressives had their way, the ACLU's latest challenge to the NSA's domestic surveillance would easily be dismissed. ACLU v Clapper, filed in the wake of the Snowden revelations,...

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A letter to the editor of The Economist re Lexington's reference to the "Taliban wing" of the GOP

2013-06-16T20:05:08-07:00

This column prompted this letter to the editor by yours truly: One has gotten used to the far left referring to the "Taliban wing" of the GOP, but it was most disheartening to see that phrase crop up...

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An ivory tower idea about shareholder voting that's going nowhere

2013-06-16T16:38:16-07:00

Eric Posner on his proposal that corporations adopt square root voting: Imagine that a corporation holds a shareholder vote on a project like a merger, and, under the corporation’s bylaws, each...

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An interesting post on the intersection of Caremark and FCPA

2013-06-16T16:08:53-07:00

“The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the Board he or she sits on is on the front page of the New York Times (NYT) for alleged illegal conduct. This...

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Insider trading is sexy

2013-06-15T12:59:22-07:00

David Zaring and Broc Romanek explore reasons why the SEC enforcement staff overemphasizes insider trading cases at the expense of (arguably much more important) violations such as accounting fraud....

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Syria: Yet another mistaken war of choice

2013-06-14T14:54:50-07:00

So now the supposedly anti-Bush Obama's starting yet another war, this time in Syria, where the odds are that either Assad or al-Qaeda will end up beating "our" "moderate" rebels. Whenever we start...

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