transparency April 6, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentI’m speaking on Friday at a conference on Law, Finance and Legitimacy after Financial Reform at American University Washington College of Law. My paper is Transparency Is The New Opacity: Constructing Financial Regulation After The Crisis .
dood-frank symposium April 5, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentOn Saturday April 9 from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm, the University of Miami Business Law review and International and Comparative Law review are co-hosting a Symposium on The Response to Financial Crisis and the Dodd-Frank Legislation. Topics covered will range from sovereign debt to financial scandals to the FDIC’s resolution authority to arbitration.
The cost of CLE attendance (4.5 Florida credits) is $65. RSVP to umiamiblr@gmail.com.
Update: Here is the Symposium Program.
eu commission consults on corporate governance April 5, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : consultation , add a commentThe Commission published a Green Paper on the EU Corporate Governance Framework and invites feedback via this page.
lessons learned too well: the evolution of internet regulation April 4, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentMichael Froomkin, Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law, today at 5.30 pm, at the Lowe Art Gallery (with commentary by Jonathan Weinberg and Cindy Cohn). Should be good.
if you can have a tax consultation tracker, why not a whole of government policy tracker? April 4, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : consultation , add a commentThe new UK Treasury tax consultation tracker is here. But it would be so much better to have a whole of government listing (something better than this). Surely this should be manageable in a state where the government has a lot of control over policy initiatives?
poetry in a crisis March 31, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : financial regulation , 1 comment so farThere;’s something very poetic (but tragically so) in the Irish Finance Minister’s statement on banking:
Tuesday, 30th September, 2008 will go down in history as the blackest day in Ireland since the Civil War broke out.
The 30th September 2008 was the day on which the then Government extended the infamous guarantee to the Irish banks and decided that Anglo Irish Bank should be supported and maintained.
It quickly became apparent that Anglo was insolvent in the absence of State support, that the other banks were illiquid and that the banking system was not fit for purpose.
The banks were too big for the economy. The JCB and the swinging crane had become the logos of the banks, and Irish bankers were as likely to be funding apartment blocks on the Black Sea or dabbling in property schemes in Singapore, as they were to be investing in the Irish economy.
We are now in the third year of the banking crisis. The previous Government failed to act. They ducked and dived and procrastinated as they lurched from one crisis to the next. They went through periods of denial and periods of self justification. They paved the road to disaster with good intentions.
They never fixed the broken banks however.
police…batons…heads March 26, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : fundamental rights , add a commentFrom the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights Report on Facilitating Peaceful Protest, the following statement:
We were, however, surprised to find that no specific guidance setting out circumstances in which the use of the baton against the head might be justifiable and recommend that such detailed guidance about the use of batons be drawn up, and that in the meantime training reflects this concern.
That’s what I want to see – detailed guidance about when the police can hit people in the head with their batons.
poetry, elements, politics, health…. March 22, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentYesterday was world poetry day, today is world water day, tomorrow is democracy day, Thursday is world TB day and Friday is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire.
jotwell: woo recommends ayotte & skeel March 10, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : jotwell , add a commentIn today’s corporate jotwell post, Sarah Woo recommends Kenneth Ayotte & David A. Skeel, Jr., Bankruptcy or Bailouts?, 35 J. Corp. L. 469 (2010).
today is international womens’ day… March 8, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : gender , add a commentand Judi Dench and Daniel Craig team up at weareequals.org: