January 21, 2014 at 10:58 am
I used to spend extensive time in my Law and Ethics class discussing capital punishment. This is an important issue to me; I spent years working on a death penalty appeal for a man who spent 21 years on death row before being released. Growing up, I was vaguely in favor of the death penalty. […]
January 16, 2014 at 9:31 am
I am constantly telling my kids that they are judged not just by their actions, but by the company they keep. In other words, you can be punished for what your not-so-well-behaved friends do. In many ways, that parenting adage is consistent with the abortion protest “buffer zone” law that we have in Massachusetts. The […]
January 8, 2014 at 9:40 am
I might seem to be picking on JP Morgan this week (where, ironically, several of my friends and former students are employed), but we can blame the NY Times, who has a new article every morning about the financial behemoth.* Yesterday JP Morgan agreed to pay $2.6 billion in exchange for receiving a deferred prosecution […]
January 6, 2014 at 2:12 pm
I have written about the federal investigation of JP Morgan’s “Sons and Daughters” program before, but as the coverage continues I thought it was time to revisit. As this article details, in late 2009 the JP Morgan Chase executives in Hong Kong were feeling the pressure. They had lost out on several lucrative deals, and […]
