by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Dec 31, 2024 | Volume 76, Issue 1
Richard Young Volume 76, Issue 1, 275-304 This Note investigates the evolving regulatory landscape following the 2023 SEC amendments regarding beneficial ownership reporting. It begins by analyzing the rise of hedge fund activism and its influence on corporate...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Dec 31, 2024 | Volume 76, Issue 1
Kirk Rider Volume 76, Issue 1, 243-274 The “Texas Two-Step” is a novel means of forcing a settlement agreement on mass-tort claimants. Corporations utilize the Two-Step bankruptcy strategy using a state law merger statute to split itself in two. One half of the...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Dec 31, 2024 | Volume 76, Issue 1
Robert P. Merges Volume 76, Issue 1, 161-242 Private law governs interactions among private parties. A large body of private law theory holds that private law is aimed at corrective justice: doing justice as between the two parties to a private interaction (the...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Dec 31, 2024 | Volume 76, Issue 1
Mark A. Lemley Volume 76, Issue 1, 115-160 The free market works because no one person or company is making the decisions. In a competitive market, businesspeople make the wrong decisions all the time, just as central planners do. But the consequences of those...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Dec 31, 2024 | Volume 76, Issue 1
Robin Feldman Volume 76, Issue 1, 47-114 Our implicit image of progress and the standards we use to calibrate human contribution to progress are quietly at risk from the onslaught of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has the potential to significantly shrink the...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | Dec 31, 2024 | Volume 76, Issue 1
Ramon Feldbrin Volume 76, Issue 1, 1-46 Judicial review has distinct purposes, difficulties, and modalities, but there are no guideposts as to how these features ought to be addressed in procedural terms. The reason is a deep-seated, but largely unarticulated,...
