This piece responds to Professor John Morley's article, “The Regulation of Mutual Fund Debt.” The article grapples — albeit from an academic point of view — with many of the issues that fund structurers encounter, on a more practical level, as we imagine, structure and develop innovative...

In their Article, On Derivatives Markets and Social Welfare: A Theory of Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership, Professors Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, and Scott Duke Kominers offer a compelling addition to the still-burgeoning discussion of the bifurcation of voting rights and ownership...

As the American economy continues to totter against an ever-growing populist momentum, it seems likely that clawback mechanisms of various sorts will be put to increasing use in the coming months and years. Very generally, a clawback attempts to regain previously conferred monies or benefits...

In his article “Insider Trading via the Corporation,” Professor Jesse M. Fried expresses his frustration that “when insiders are subject to strict trade-disclosure requirements and firms are not, insiders have a strong incentive to exploit the relatively lax trade-disclosure rules that...

The current housing crisis has hampered the ability of financial institutions to lend and has led to dire national and global macroeconomic consequences. The credit crisis and the most recent bouts of unemployment, GDP contraction, deflation and the retrenchment of the American consumer all have...

After the bursting of the housing bubble and the Great Recession that followed, there has been an increasing focus on improving market transparency and recognizing other potential bubbles. The higher education and student loan markets are under new levels of scrutiny because they display many of...