Prof. Tom C.W. Lin reviews Strategic Compliance by Geeyoung Min for Corporate Law JOTWELL (Jotwell). corp.jotwell.com/compliance-and…

A paper that shows where basic assumptions of corporate governance break down has earned Professor Joshua Macey and his co-author an award for business scholarship. law.yale.edu/yls-today/news…

Prof. Tom C.W. Lin reviews Strategic Compliance by Geeyoung Min for Corporate Law JOTWELL (Jotwell). corp.jotwell.com/compliance-and…

Extremely honored to accept #AALS2025 Tech Mentorship Award of from the Section on #Tech, #Law & #LegalEd. I am mentored by generous kind & wise colleagues & friends & hope to honor them by picking up the torch & mentoring others in scholarship, teaching & entering the academy

Check out the new draft. It’s chock full of insurer accounts of how they view litigation minimizing boilerplate.

I've posted Governing the Company Town (revised), which contextualizes contemporary enclaves—like Elon Musk's TX municipal incorporations, Disney's FL special district & global private city movements—within a longer history of capital-governed communities: bit.ly/4hi449O

Expanding Shareholder Voice: The Impact of SEC Guidance on Environmental and Social Proposals, corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/01/16/exp… #corpgov Roberto Tallarita

If you'd like to read more about Musk's efforts to incorporate his companies' Texas facilities into self-governed municipalities—how it represents the culmination of longstanding efforts, by private capital, to commandeer the public form)—pls check out: bit.ly/4hi449O

Can Delaware’s commitment to contractarian principles help resolve the current impasse on SB21 in a way that is satisfactory to all sides? I think it can, and here’s how: clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2025/03/07/a-c…

In my article about corporate enclaves (like Musk's TX incorporations), I argued we shld understand the "various capital-governed private cities that have been implemented globally" as previewing "the likely destination of this domestic trend." That future could be here very soon

Should the law govern AI datasets and data infrastructure like a public utility? Learn more from Julie Cohen at the #GoverningData Symposium, March 28-29, Yale Law School and online. Info and registration: ibl.law.uiowa.edu/governing-data  Iowa Innovation, Business, and Law Center Yale Journal of Law & Technology Rishab Nithyanand

Happy to share that my paper, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been conditionally accepted at the American Political Science Review (American Political Science Review)! Updated draft here: bit.ly/3DU4Vj7

List of companies that have proposed reincorporating from Delaware to other states since 1/1/23, with greater than $100m market cap:* •TripAdvisor (4/10/23, to Nevada, passed, litigation) •Cannae Holdings (4/14/24, to Nevada, passed) •Fidelity National Federal (4/15/24, to

Interesting paper on why people follow rules: Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.

There’s no single “right” way to become a law professor. If you’d told me early in my career I’d be a tenured law professor, I would’ve laughed. Not because I didn’t value academia but because I didn’t even see it as an option for someone like me. 🧵⤵️

I am on the legal academic job market! My job talk paper is on how courts in tax, corporate, and bankruptcy law spheres value business interests systematically differently, such that the same asset is "worth" different amounts of money depending on the substantive underlying law.

The Habeas Class Actions paper I wrote with Teddy Rave is forthcoming in Volume 139 of the Harvard Law Review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Good luck to those on the academic market. It’s a difficult time. Many—perhaps most—decisions are not based on you as an individual. You have almost no control of interviews you don’t get—and slight more of those you do. Be yourself and keep your head up.