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Texas Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration Agreement in Trust
May 10, 2013
Stacie Strong: The Supreme Court of Texas upheld an arbitration provision in an inter vivos trust. This is the first state...
May 10, 2013
Stacie Strong: The Supreme Court of Texas upheld an arbitration provision in an inter vivos trust. This is the first state...
SCOTUS ‘Simply Irrelevant’ To Daily Work of Trial Courts According to Federal Judge
May 10, 2013
Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Nebraska isn’t afraid to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court. Sometimes the court “can really screw things up,” Kopf writes at his blog Hercules and the Umpire. As an example, he offers the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Booker, which effectively made the federal sentencing guidelines advisory. “If haphazardly injecting chaos into a system is a good thing, the Supreme Court is very good at that,” Kopf writes. But much...
May 10, 2013
Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Nebraska isn’t afraid to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court. Sometimes the court “can really screw things up,” Kopf writes at his blog Hercules and the Umpire. As an example, he offers the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Booker, which effectively made the federal sentencing guidelines advisory. “If haphazardly injecting chaos into a system is a good thing, the Supreme Court is very good at that,” Kopf writes. But much...
Houston Court Refuses to Grant Mandamus Relief After Motion to Compel Arbitration is Denied
May 9, 2013
Houston’s First District Court of Appeals has denied a company’s petition for a writ of mandamus after it failed to file...
May 9, 2013
Houston’s First District Court of Appeals has denied a company’s petition for a writ of mandamus after it failed to file...
Bankruptcy Filings Down 14 Percent for March 2013
May 9, 2013
Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2013, fell 14.4 percent when compared to bankruptcy filings...
May 9, 2013
Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2013, fell 14.4 percent when compared to bankruptcy filings...
Software: The Attorney Who Is Always on the Job
May 9, 2013
In the legal arena's contest of man versus machine, the U.S. Justice Department has given a big boost to the machines. Department officials reviewing the proposed merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev NVBUD -1.56% and Mexico's Grupo Modelo GMODELO.MX -0.26% SAB recently approved a request to use software—rather than a horde of lawyers—to determine which documents needed to be turned over to the government. Cases involving large companies often require legal counsel to sift through...
May 9, 2013
In the legal arena's contest of man versus machine, the U.S. Justice Department has given a big boost to the machines. Department officials reviewing the proposed merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev NVBUD -1.56% and Mexico's Grupo Modelo GMODELO.MX -0.26% SAB recently approved a request to use software—rather than a horde of lawyers—to determine which documents needed to be turned over to the government. Cases involving large companies often require legal counsel to sift through...
Beyonic Wins the IBM Global Entrepreneur Pitch Competition
May 9, 2013
Beyonic, a company whose software connects major global finance sources with payment networks in the developing world to facilitate...
May 9, 2013
Beyonic, a company whose software connects major global finance sources with payment networks in the developing world to facilitate...
How Does a Self-Driving Car Work?
May 9, 2013
CARS that can drive themselves, a staple of science-fiction, have started to appear on roads in real life. Google’s self-driving vehicles are the best-known, but most carmakers are also developing them. In 2011 BMW sent a robotic car at motorway speeds from Munich, the German carmaker’s hometown, to Nuremberg, about 170km away (with a driver on board just in case). Audi got a self-driving TTS Coupe to negotiate 156 tight curves along nearly 20km of paved and dirt road on Colorado’s Pikes Peak,...
May 9, 2013
CARS that can drive themselves, a staple of science-fiction, have started to appear on roads in real life. Google’s self-driving vehicles are the best-known, but most carmakers are also developing them. In 2011 BMW sent a robotic car at motorway speeds from Munich, the German carmaker’s hometown, to Nuremberg, about 170km away (with a driver on board just in case). Audi got a self-driving TTS Coupe to negotiate 156 tight curves along nearly 20km of paved and dirt road on Colorado’s Pikes Peak,...
Predictive Analytics Help Lawyers Make Precise Decisions
May 9, 2013
Cheap storage and fast computers have accelerated information production. We create more information every two days than...
May 9, 2013
Cheap storage and fast computers have accelerated information production. We create more information every two days than...
Houston Appeals Court Compels Gas Delivery Dispute to Arbitration
May 9, 2013
Houston’s First Appellate District has compelled a dispute over a natural gas delivery contract to arbitration despite...
May 9, 2013
Houston’s First Appellate District has compelled a dispute over a natural gas delivery contract to arbitration despite...
Strong Financial Laws Without Strong Enforcement: Is Good Law Always Better than No Law?
May 9, 2013
This article examines whether strong laws are effective when regulatory institutions are weak. This has become especially relevant due to criticisms of financial market regulation in the United States. I test the impact of imposing strong laws on a weak regulatory environment by using China's principled reforms to market manipulation law as a natural experiment. The results from difference-in-difference tests suggest that China's principled law reforms did not improve the market's information environment,...
May 9, 2013
This article examines whether strong laws are effective when regulatory institutions are weak. This has become especially relevant due to criticisms of financial market regulation in the United States. I test the impact of imposing strong laws on a weak regulatory environment by using China's principled reforms to market manipulation law as a natural experiment. The results from difference-in-difference tests suggest that China's principled law reforms did not improve the market's information environment,...
