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The Challenge Of Regulatory Excellence, Cary Coglianese Dec 2016

The Challenge Of Regulatory Excellence, Cary Coglianese

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Regulation is a high-stakes enterprise marked by tremendous challenges and relentless public pressure. Regulators are expected to protect the public from harms associated with economic activity and technological change without unduly impeding economic growth or efficiency. Regulators today also face new demands, such as adapting to rapidly changing and complex financial instruments, the emergence of the sharing economy, and the potential hazards of synthetic biology and other innovations. Faced with these challenges, regulators need a lodestar for what constitutes high-quality regulation and guidance on how to improve their organizations’ performance. In the book Achieving Regulatory Excellence, leading regulatory experts …


Protecting One's Own Privacy In A Big Data Economy, Anita L. Allen Dec 2016

Protecting One's Own Privacy In A Big Data Economy, Anita L. Allen

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Big Data is the vast quantities of information amenable to large-scale collection, storage, and analysis. Using such data, companies and researchers can deploy complex algorithms and artificial intelligence technologies to reveal otherwise unascertained patterns, links, behaviors, trends, identities, and practical knowledge. The information that comprises Big Data arises from government and business practices, consumer transactions, and the digital applications sometimes referred to as the “Internet of Things.” Individuals invisibly contribute to Big Data whenever they live digital lifestyles or otherwise participate in the digital economy, such as when they shop with a credit card, get treated at a hospital, apply …


Hedge Fund Activism, Poison Pills, And The Jurisprudence Of Threat, William W. Bratton Aug 2016

Hedge Fund Activism, Poison Pills, And The Jurisprudence Of Threat, William W. Bratton

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This chapter reviews the single high profile case in which twentieth century antitakeover law has come to bear on management defense against a twenty-first century activist challenge—the Delaware Court of Chancery’s decision to sustain a low-threshold poison pill deployed against an activist in Third Point LLC v. Ruprecht. The decision implicated an important policy question: whether a twentieth century doctrine keyed to hostile takeovers and control transfers appropriately can be brought to bear in a twenty-first century governance context in which the challenger eschews control transfer and instead makes aggressive use of the shareholder franchise. Resolution of the question …


Antitrust Balancing, Herbert J. Hovenkamp Apr 2016

Antitrust Balancing, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

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Antitrust litigation often confronts situations where effects point in both directions. Judges sometimes describe the process of evaluating these factors as “balancing.” In its e-Books decision the Second Circuit believed that the need to balance is what justifies application of the rule of reason. In Microsoft the D.C. Circuit stated that “courts routinely apply a…balancing approach” under which “the plaintiff must demonstrate that the anticompetitive harm…outweighs the procompetitive benefit.” But then it decided the case without balancing anything.

The term “balancing” is a very poor label for what courts actually do in these cases. Balancing requires that two offsetting effects …


Antitrust And Information Technologies, Herbert J. Hovenkamp Mar 2016

Antitrust And Information Technologies, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

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Technological change strongly affects the use of information to facilitate anticompetitive practices. The effects result mainly from digitization and the many products and processes that it enables. These technologies of information also account for a significant portion of the difficulties that antitrust law encounters when its addresses intellectual property rights. In addition, changes in the technologies of information affect the structures of certain products, in the process either increasing or decreasing the potential for competitive harm.

For example, digital technology affects the way firms exercise market power, but it also imposes serious measurement difficulties. The digital revolution has occurred in …


The Insurability Of Claims For Restitution, Christiopher C. French Jan 2016

The Insurability Of Claims For Restitution, Christiopher C. French

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


The Manner In Which Corporate Law And Financial Regulations Are Made, Supawich Sirikanchana, Sharareh Zand Jan 2016

The Manner In Which Corporate Law And Financial Regulations Are Made, Supawich Sirikanchana, Sharareh Zand

Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

No abstract provided.


Notable Governance Failures: Enron, Siemens And Beyond, Michael Primbs, Clara Wang Jan 2016

Notable Governance Failures: Enron, Siemens And Beyond, Michael Primbs, Clara Wang

Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

No abstract provided.


Executive Compensation, Moritz Reinhard, Daniel Velazquez Escobar Jan 2016

Executive Compensation, Moritz Reinhard, Daniel Velazquez Escobar

Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Private Litigation, Benedict Heil, Benjamin Lee Jan 2016

The Role Of Private Litigation, Benedict Heil, Benjamin Lee

Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

No abstract provided.


Executive Compensation: Mannesmann V. Disney - A Case Study, Do Hee Jeong, Maurice Weidhaas Jan 2016

Executive Compensation: Mannesmann V. Disney - A Case Study, Do Hee Jeong, Maurice Weidhaas

Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

No abstract provided.


Gender Diversity On Corporate Boards: The Competing Perspectives In The U.S. And The Eu, Tyler Winters, Madhuri Jacobs-Sharma Jan 2016

Gender Diversity On Corporate Boards: The Competing Perspectives In The U.S. And The Eu, Tyler Winters, Madhuri Jacobs-Sharma

Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

No abstract provided.


Interpreting The Anti-Retaliation Provision Of The Dodd-Frank Act, Zizi Petkova Jan 2016

Interpreting The Anti-Retaliation Provision Of The Dodd-Frank Act, Zizi Petkova

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Fixing Lawyers’ Mistakes: The Court’S Role In Administering Delaware’S Corporate Statute, John W. Noble Jan 2016

Fixing Lawyers’ Mistakes: The Court’S Role In Administering Delaware’S Corporate Statute, John W. Noble

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Recovery Of Damages For Lost Profits: The Historical Development, Robert M. Lloyd, Nicholas J. Chase Jan 2016

Recovery Of Damages For Lost Profits: The Historical Development, Robert M. Lloyd, Nicholas J. Chase

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


The Cuba Conundrum: Corporate Governance And Compliance Challenges For U.S. Publicly-Traded Companies, Marcia Narine Jan 2016

The Cuba Conundrum: Corporate Governance And Compliance Challenges For U.S. Publicly-Traded Companies, Marcia Narine

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Specialized Juries For Patent Cases: An Empirical Proposal, Joshua L. Sohn Jan 2016

Specialized Juries For Patent Cases: An Empirical Proposal, Joshua L. Sohn

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Shareholder Exit Signs On American And European Highways: Under Construction, Raluca Papadima, Mihaela Gherghe, Radu Văleanu Jan 2016

Shareholder Exit Signs On American And European Highways: Under Construction, Raluca Papadima, Mihaela Gherghe, Radu Văleanu

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Regulating The Moneychangers, Jerry Markham Jan 2016

Regulating The Moneychangers, Jerry Markham

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Social Enterprise Governance, Alina S. Ball Jan 2016

Social Enterprise Governance, Alina S. Ball

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Sanctionable Practices At The World Bank: Interpretation And Enforcement, Michael S. Diamant, Christopher W.H. Sullivan, Jason H. Smith Jan 2016

Sanctionable Practices At The World Bank: Interpretation And Enforcement, Michael S. Diamant, Christopher W.H. Sullivan, Jason H. Smith

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Manipulative Games Of Gifts By Corporate Executives, S. Burcu Avci, Cindy A. Schipani, H. Nejat Seyhun Jan 2016

Manipulative Games Of Gifts By Corporate Executives, S. Burcu Avci, Cindy A. Schipani, H. Nejat Seyhun

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Real Liabilities For Fantasy Sports: The Modern Inadequacies Of Our Archaic Legal Framework, Elizabeth Steyngrob Jan 2016

Real Liabilities For Fantasy Sports: The Modern Inadequacies Of Our Archaic Legal Framework, Elizabeth Steyngrob

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Pricing Mechanisms In Mergers And Acquisitions: Thinking Inside The Box, Adam Tsao Jan 2016

Pricing Mechanisms In Mergers And Acquisitions: Thinking Inside The Box, Adam Tsao

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Masthead Jan 2016

Masthead

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Penn Restructuring Institute & Government Participation In Resolution Processes: An Introduction, Stephen E. Hessler, David A. Skeel Jr. Jan 2016

Penn Restructuring Institute & Government Participation In Resolution Processes: An Introduction, Stephen E. Hessler, David A. Skeel Jr.

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Governmental Intervention In An Economic Crisis, Robert K. Rasmussen, David A. Skeel Jr. Jan 2016

Governmental Intervention In An Economic Crisis, Robert K. Rasmussen, David A. Skeel Jr.

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Government As Rescue Financier: Not Just A Private Lender, Marc J. Heimowitz Jan 2016

Government As Rescue Financier: Not Just A Private Lender, Marc J. Heimowitz

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Revisiting Construction Defects As “Occurrences” Under Cgl Insurance Policies, Christopher C. French Jan 2016

Revisiting Construction Defects As “Occurrences” Under Cgl Insurance Policies, Christopher C. French

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


Developments In Sec Administrative Proceedings: An Evaluation Of Recent Appointment Clause Challenges, The Rapidly Evolving Judicial Landscape, And The Sec’S Response To Critics, Philip J. Griffin Jan 2016

Developments In Sec Administrative Proceedings: An Evaluation Of Recent Appointment Clause Challenges, The Rapidly Evolving Judicial Landscape, And The Sec’S Response To Critics, Philip J. Griffin

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.