Faculty News
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Tax Notes Quotes Prof. Hickman On Debt-Equity Pre-Rule
October 11, 2019Prof. Hickman was quoted in a Tax Notes article, “Treasury Takes Interim Step on Road to Revising Debt-Equity Regs”, speculating about the significance of a “pre-rule” docketed by the Treasury Department with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) regarding the characterization of certain interests in corporations as debt or equity. The article quoted Prof. Hickman regarding Treasury’s past practice of using IRS Notices to signal and solicit public input regarding potential future regulations, and also OIRA review of IRS subregulatory guidance documents more generally.
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Tax Notes Quotes Prof. Hickman On OIRA Administrator Nomination
October 3, 2019Professor Kristin Hickman was quoted by Tax Notes regarding the prospects for tax administration from the President’s nomination of Paul Ray to serve as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Recognizing Professor Hickman’s work with OIRA as it assumed responsibility for reviewing tax rules and regulations under a memorandum of agreement signed in 2018, Tax Notes (subscription required) quoted her as expressing confidence that OIRA’s “strong commitment to implementing the memorandum of agreement and reviewing tax regulatory actions will continue under Paul Ray’s leadership.”
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Prof. Hasday Interviewed on KFI-AM Radio About Her New Book, Intimate Lies and the Law
September 30, 2019Professor Jill Hasday appeared on the “Dr. Wendy Walsh Show,” a KFI-AM Radio program, to discuss her new book, Intimate Lies and the Law.
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Law360 Quotes Prof. Cotter on Injunction Bonds and Sports Betting
September 26, 2019A Law360 article titled “NJ Track Clears Hurdle In Long-Shot Bid For Betting Revenue” discusses a recent Third Circuit ruling that a district court had wrongly enjoined the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Trade Association (NJTHA) from proceeding with a plan to offer sports betting. The court further held that NJHTA may recover up to the amount of the injunction bond the NCAA and four professional sports leagues had posted—which, however, amounts to only $3.4 million, compared with the $150 million NJHTA alleges it suffered as a result of the injunction. The article quotes Professor Cotter as stating “the general rule for damages for wrongfully enjoining someone is capped at the amount of the bond,” and that “[i]t seems to be fairly common that the amount of the bond is often less than the actual harm suffered.”
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Prof. Kitrosser Talks Impeachment on WCCO-TV and “Chicago Tonight”
September 26, 2019Professor Heidi Kitrosser spoke to WCCO-TV about the ongoing discussions in Washington over impeachment. She also appeared on “Chicago Tonight” on Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW. In her “Chicago Tonight” appearance (which begins at about 7 minutes into the September 26th episode) she discusses the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), the breakdown of the ICWPA process in this case and the role of the Department of Justice in this breakdown, and the constitutional standard for impeachment.
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Prof. Hill’s Work on #MeToo, CSR, and Profit Maximization Featured on Business Scholarship Podcast
September 25, 2019Professor Claire Hill discussed her recent article, “#MeToo and the Convergence of CSR and Profit Maximization,” on the Business Scholarship Podcast. The article discusses the relationship between the #MeToo movement and a broader phenomenon: corporations are increasingly being required to take into consideration interests beyond those of profits to their shareholders.
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Prof. Frase Publishes New Book, Paying for the Past: The Case Against Prior Record Sentence Enhancements, with Oxford University Press
September 22, 2019Professor Richard Frase, Benjamin N. Berger Professor of Criminal Law, and Professor Julian V. Roberts (Oxford University) published a new book, Paying for the Past: The Case Against Prior Record Sentence Enhancements, with Oxford University Press this summer. Professor Frase, a national expert on sentencing guidelines systems and criminal history, co-directed the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice where he led the Criminal History Enhancements project with Professor Roberts.
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Prof. Cotter Testifies at U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hearing on STRONGER Patents Act
September 12, 2019Professor Tom Cotter was one of six witnesses invited to testify on September 11, 2019 at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Cotter and the other panelists debated the merits of the proposed legislation, which would change certain standards that apply in patent cases, and fielded questions from Senators Tillis and Coons. The video of the hearing can be accessed here (video actually begins at the 14:40 mark). Further discussion of the hearing and of Professor Cotter’s testimony can be found in an article on Law360, and on the IP Watchdog and Patently-O blogs.
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Law360 Quotes Prof. Cotter on Antitrust Circuit Split Over State Liquor Laws
September 12, 2019A Law360 article, titled “2nd Circ. Tussle Distills Court Divide On Booze Laws,” discusses a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision rejecting an antitrust challenge to Connecticut’s “post and hold” law regarding liquor wholesaler prices. The article notes that other circuits have struck down similar laws, and quotes Professor Tom Cotter as stating, among other things, that this issue may be “the kind of low-hanging fruit that the [Supreme] Court may say, ‘Let’s resolve the circuit split and get it over with.’”
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Prof. Hickman Cited by Sixth Circuit
September 11, 2019Prof. Kristin Hickman’s Administrative Law Treatise, co-authored with GW Law Professor Richard J. Pierce, Jr., was cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Island Creek Coal Co. v. Bryan, Nos. 18-3680, 18-3909, & 18-4022, 2019 WL 4282871 (6th Cir. Sept. 11, 2019), as the court explained at length the concept of issue exhaustion in administrative law.