The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is beginning to aggressively set its agenda. After long-delayed implementation and att...

Today, Friday, February 24, 2012, the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law is hosting a symposium aimed at assessing the current ...

Several stories of particular interest to the Corporate Justice Blog have been featured in the financial news in recent days. Articles wort...

With many banks still hesitant to loan capital choosing instead to hoard it, and with venture capital firms targeting less risky companies t...

Like so many others, I have been riveted by the news stories about Whitney Houston's death. I watched in disbelief as music industry exe...

Foreclosure “relief” has been announced as coming for millions of American homeowners as state attorneys general, federal officials, and ba...

President Barack Obama announced, during his recent State of the Union Address, that his administration plans to aggressively pursue crimes ...

Last semester, as the drama of Occupy Wall Street unfolded, I asked my students in my Business Organizations class (about 70 students are in...

Yesterday, two former Credit Suisse bond traders pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy in connection with the mortgage bond mark...

Former Credit Suisse mortgage bond traders will reportedly be criminally charged in coming days. The criminal charges will purportedly all...

With banks in “full-delay” mode in connection with foreclosures during 2011, California homeowners can expect a change—for the worst—in 2012...

The Wall Street Journal reports that in a year where executive compensation has plateaued, Wall Street firms can still expect challenges fr...

Three years after Lehman Bros. filed the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. history, world financial markets are still wobbly, unemploym...

A favored argument by market fundamentalists is that capital markets are efficient, and will find equilibrium if left unfettered. For this ...

The above chart graphically depicts the relative standing of the U.S. in terms of childhood poverty.  The U.S. simply cannot lay claim to e...