Business Organizations

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Narratives of Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom: What Corporate Insiders Say about Why Diversity Matters (with John M. Conley and Lissa Lamkin Broome) (2010)
Over the last generation, the concept of diversity has become commonplace and taken-for-granted in discourses...
 

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Signaling Through Board Diversity: Is Anyone Listening? (with Lissa Lamkin Broome), University of Cincinnati Law Review (2008)

The ethnic and gender make-up of corporate boards has been the subject of intense public...

 

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Organizational Form as Status and Signal, ExpressO (2005)

In this Article, the author analyzes the reactions of 147 New York City law firms...

 

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The Economics of Limited Liability: An Empirical Study of New York Law Firms (with Scott Baker), ExpressO (2004)

Since the rapid rise in organizational forms for business associations, academics and practitioners have sought...

 

Compliance -- Organizational Misconduct

Operational Risk Management: An Emergent Industry, Operational Risk Towards Basel III: Best Practices and Issues in Modeling, Management and Regulation (2009)

Financial institutions have always been exposed to operational risk – the risk of loss from...

 

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The Return of the Rogue, Arizona Law Review (2009)

The rogue trader—a figure that captured public attention in the 1990s— has returned to the...

 

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Organizational Misconduct: Beyond the Principal-Agent Model, ExpressO (2005)

This article demonstrates that, at least since the adoption of the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines...

 

Contracts -- Insider Trading

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Incomplete Contracts in a Complete Contract World (with Scott A. Baker), ExpressO (2006)

This paper considers the role that contract doctrine should play in facilitating optimal investment in...

 

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Common Law Disclosure Duties and the Sin of Omission: Testing the Meta-theories (with Kathryn Zeiler), Virginia Law Review (2005)

Since ancient times, legal scholars have explored the vexing question of when and what a...

 

Forbidden or Contested Markets

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Price and Pretense in the Baby Market, Money, Morals, And The Neopolitics of Choice (2009)

Throughout the world, baby selling is formally prohibited. And throughout the world babies are bought...

 

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Sunny Samaritans & Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing in the Gamete Market, Law and Contemporary Problems (2009)
This Article considers the market structure of the human egg (or “oocyte”) donation business, particularly...
 

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Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange, Law and Contemporary Problems (2009)

As your parents doubtless told you, money can’t buy everything. Nearly all cultures reserve certain...

 

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Why We Should Ignore the "Octomom", NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY (2009)
Thanks to the “Octomom” – a single, low-income, California mother of six, who recently gave...
 

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Altruism and Intermediation in the Market for Babies, Washington & Lee Law Review (2008)
Central to every legal system is the principle that certain items are off-limits to commercial...