Up to one-third of the faculty may be terminated, although in the law school, Chicago-Kent, it appears the number is lower (maybe one-fifth by some accounts). If readers have more details, please e…

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

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The Capitol Forum will host a conference call with Andrew Granato, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, and Pranjal Drall, a J.D.-Ph.D. candidate in Financial Economics at Yal...

Authorities are examining about $16 billion in private-credit deals involving Walter’s insurance companies to determine whether fraud occurred.

There is a strong new paper out about how private socializes risk via the (captive) insurance channel, with implications for data center capex, given the (now) greater than 50% reliance on external fi...

Private equity (PE) firms have acquired large life insurers and loaded their balance sheets with private credit assets that are opaque and difficult for regulat

Private gains and public losses.

Private equity (PE) firms have acquired large life insurers and loaded their balance sheets with private credit assets that are opaque and difficult for regulat

Do courts employ finance neutrally and consistently, or do different courts fashion financial tools in court-specific ways? I assemble 20 years (52,000 pages) o

Modern litigation often involves two separate, extra-legal features: (1) contingency fee arrangements with the plaintiff-side attorney, and (2) a “battle of the experts” where the outcome of the case...

Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system