Perhaps I should have gone with “Win One for the Gipper”

Motivated by these posts about law professors’ pre-exam pep talks, I decided that, in lieu of giving a pep talk of my own, I’d show my students this one. I just hope that, after nearly a semester, they understand my sardonic sense of humor!

Corporate law and current events

In my Business Associations class today, I’m covering federal proxy regulations and shareholder proposals. By way of letting the students see a real-world example, I’ve given them Chevron’s 2007 proxy statement, which includes shareholder proposals on human rights, environmental issues, and animal welfare, along with proposals on more traditional corporate governance issues.
Along with the company’s [...]

Bat shit and business associations

In my Business Associations course last week, I covered the famous case of National Biscuit Co. v. Stroud. In the course of its opinion, the N.C. Supreme Court cites to a less well-known case, Blackstone Guano Co. v. Ball. I expect that most students reading the Stroud case already know what “guano” is, but might [...]

A teacher’s death by a thousand cuts

As I approach the first day of teaching at my new institution, and begin to feel the usual anticipatory jitters, I take some small comfort in the probability that I will not experience such harsh treatment from my new students as poor St. Cassian did at the hands of his pupils:
He was exposed naked in [...]