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Professor Anne Alstott, giving the Webster Lecture on Wealth Transfers at the University of Iowa College of Law, spoke of the clash between family values and the estate tax.
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Hanson warns that bailout plans do not go far enough
October 2, 2008
The following op-ed written by Professor Jon Hanson, "In crisis, beware illusion of reform," was published in the October 2, 2008, edition of the Providence Journal.
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Bebchuk discusses how to fix the Treasury’s emergency plan
September 26, 2008
The following op-ed by Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. ’80 S.J.D. ’84, “How to pay less for distressed financial assets,” was published in the September…
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Jackson says the Treasury’s bailout plan should target bad loans, not burned investors
September 25, 2008
The following op-ed by Professor Howell Jackson '82, "Build a better bailout," was published in the September 25, 2008, edition of the Christian Science Monitor.
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When Sweet Charity Became Bittersweet: Lessons from the Hershey “Kiss-off” of 2002
September 24, 2008
About a hundred years ago, when Milton Hershey founded the Hershey Company—now the largest confectionery company in North America—he also established a school for needy children, and a charitable trust for the benefit of the school. Today, the trust—worth over $8 billion—holds a controlling interest in the publicly traded Hershey Company.
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Scott urges Administration to think carefully about bank bailout plan
September 24, 2008
The following op-ed, "Let's get the bank rescue right," was co-authored by Harvard Law School Professor Hal Scott, Dean of Columbia Business School R. Glenn Hubbard, and University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Professor Luigi Zingales. It appeared in the September 24, 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal.
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Tax Policy, Writ Large
September 10, 2008
In a new book, Professor Louis Kaplow '81 "steps back and considers the relationships among the parts." The book -- “The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics” (Princeton 2008) -- stands to secure him a place in the firmament of public economists and scholars in public finance.
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Bartholet testifies before Congress about arbitration laws
August 21, 2008
Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet '65 testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today about mandatory pre-dispute arbitration, a practice often used in workplaces and by credit card companies to ensure that employees and consumers agree to resolve all conflicts through arbitration instead of through the court system.
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Sunstein advocates for further disclosure in credit industry
August 21, 2008
The following article, "Disclosure Is the Best Kind of Credit Regulation," co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein '78 and University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler, was published in the Wall Street Journal on August 13, 2008.
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Harvard Law School professor emeritus Bernard Wolfman, a leading tax law expert, has written a strong critique of an emerging trend: the patenting of specific tax strategies.
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Hands On
July 25, 2008
There are now 16 clinics at HLS, enabling students to do fieldwork at home and abroad. Here are stories from three of them, taking students inside inner cities and inner sanctums.
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Warren, Levitin, and Porter testify before Congress about Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights
March 26, 2008
Earlier this month, Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren testified along with two former students - Adam Levitin '06 and Katie Porter '01 - before the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit regarding a proposed Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights.
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Triantis, taking Goldston chair, looks at emerging threats to transactional legal practice
February 28, 2008
Law firms that have built practices providing transactional work for business clients must "innovate or die." That was the message delivered by Professor George Triantis yesterday in a lecture marking his appointment to the Eli Goldston Professorship of Law.
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Boardwalk, Park Place—and The Hague
July 1, 2007
Headlines on any given day underscore the increasing globalization of antitrust law and economics—for example, “Apple iTunes charged by EC with restrictive pricing practices.”
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New Rules for a Tiger
July 1, 2007
In the past, state-owned Chinese banks were known for bad loans and poor corporate governance. Recently, four of these institutions went public, with one IPO raising a record $21.9 billion.
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A Conversation with Peter C. Krause ’74
July 1, 2007
Peter C. Krause is managing director of Greenhill & Co., a merchant bank with offices in New York City, Dallas, Toronto, London and Frankfurt.
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A conversation with Tony Bloom
April 1, 2007
Tony Bloom LL.M. ’64 is the former chairman and CEO of The Premier Group, which grew from a small business founded by his family at the turn of the last century into one of South Africa’s largest industrial companies.
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Diversified Portfolio
April 1, 2007
Harvard Law School's corporate law scholars like to collaborate--across a global array of subjects.
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The view from the boardroom
April 1, 2007
When Jim Clark, chairman of online photo sharing giant Shutterfly, resigned from his company’s board of directors in January, he became the first CEO to blame the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for his departure, saying the law had taken reform too far and had crimped his ability to lead.
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In D.C., no rush to roll back “sox”
April 1, 2007
A year ago, it looked as if the Sarbanes-Oxley Act might face a serious overhaul after its two principal authors, Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio) and Sen. Paul Sarbanes ’60 (D-Md.), retired from Congress at the end of 2006.
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Endgame?
April 1, 2007
U.S. capital markets are losing ground to foreign competitors. A Harvard-led team wants to get it back, and some powerful people are paying attention.