Business Law Center

On Oct. 9, Michael Dorff presented The Public Benefit Corporation: Panacea or Pipe Dream? as part of the Center for Business Law faculty speaker series at the School of Law. Dorff is the Executive Director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy and a Professor of Practice at the...

This fall, the Center for Business Law at Case Western School of Law introduced a mentorship program designed to provide personalized guidance to Sugarman Scholars, which is an initiative that supports students interested in business law. The mentorship program connects each Sugarman Scholar with a ...

On Sept. 23, the Center for Business Law welcomed Professor Saul Levmore as part of its 2024-2025 lecture series to present his thoughts on Sunk Costs and Exploding Offers. He is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School where he has previously ser...

On Tuesday, Sept. 17, the Center for Business Law hosted "Securities Law in the Supreme Court," a public lecture by Adam C. Pritchard and Robert B. Thompson about their book—A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court—which was recently published by the Oxford University Press. Pritchard is the...

Rising 3L Jonathan Kronert is no stranger to working overseas. Before law school, he lived in Thailand for two and half years, spending some of that period teaching English to high school students in the southern city of Suratpittaya. This summer, he returned to the country to extern at the Bangkok ...

In November, the Business Law Center sponsored the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium on Corporate Law and Private Ordering. The symposium featured keynote speaker Jill Fisch, the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics at Univers...

This spring, the Center for Business Law hosted the Norman A. Sugarman Tax Lecture. This year’s honoree and lecturer was Michael J. Graetz, who is the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School and the Columbia Alumni Professor Emeritus of Tax Law at Columbia Law School. Grae...

On April 10, the Center for Business Law hosted a public lecture featuring Mitu Gulati from the University of Virginia School of Law. During the talk, he presented a paper co-authored with Irving Arturo De Lira Salvatierra and Michael Bradley from Duke University, Fuqua Business School on the topic ...

On Jan. 31, 2024, the Center for Business Law and Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts convened a panel, Is Google Microsoft 2.0?, to explore the antitrust issues facing “Big Tech” companies operating in the United States. The panel focused on pending litigation against Google in whi...

On Feb. 12, 2024, the Center for Business Law and the Institute for Compliance, Risk Management, and Financial Integrity hosted a lecture by Commissioner Andrea Seidt of the Ohio Division of Securities. Seidt presented: "Technology in the Securities Industry – Promoting Innovation Without Compromisi...