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Showing posts with label corporatocracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporatocracy. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Lichtman lecture unpacks politics of World Cup

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Prof. Steven Lichtman spoke at UMass Law Thursday on "Soccer and American Exceptionalism: A Political Science Preview of World Cup 202...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Vietnam marks 50 years since fall of Saigon, but American corporations overshadow communism today

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At Hoàn Kiếm Lake, Hanoi Vietnam recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and I visited Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Big Law cowardice calls legal licensure into question

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The WAMU podcast 1A put on an excellent show Monday on the White House threats against law firms. The show featured Princeton University ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Anti-corruption law violates business-owner privacy, EU court holds with myopic appraisal of transparency

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A key European Union transparency law that allows watchdogs to trace corporate ownership to combat corruption has been struck down by the E...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Proposed Biden rule would try again to compel airline pricing transparency; it worked out so well last time

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President Biden has his own plane. (U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr ) The U.S. Department of Transportation (DO...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Courts extend European accountability laws to private actors: Italian soccer federation, Irish wind farm

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Two recent court decisions in Europe construed European directives on public accountability to reach ostensibly private actors, the Italian ...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Uber suffers high court loss, but binding arbitration, blanket disclaimers still devastate consumer rights

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Image by Mike Lang CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Signs of life were spotted on the dead planet of consumer rights in click-wrap agreements. But don'...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Book chapter examines information access in context of Polish privatization, law and development

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My colleague Gaspar Kot and I have published a book chapter entitled Private-Sector Transparency as Development Imperative: An African In...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Planet Money tackles litigation financing, champerty

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One of my long-term favorite podcasts, Planet Money , last week tackled litigation financing.  We talk a lot in Torts in law school about Am...
Friday, August 16, 2019

LatAm NGOs propose model of internet platform self‑regulation consistent with human rights

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NGOs working on the project, from the report. Now published online and open for comment are "Contributions for the Democratic Regu...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Arkansas higher ed faculty sue to protect tenure, academic freedom

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An assault on academic freedom in Arkansas has drawn a lawsuit by faculty. In fall 2017, I republished concerns by my colleagues in the ...