Business Ethics Versus Business Purpose
Temple Law’s Center for Compliance and Ethics’ Michael Donnella discusses the role ethics should play in business practice and how this understanding has shifted overtime.
Business Law Practice
10-Q&A Episode 10: Interview with Greg Seltzer (LAW ’03), Pioneer Behind Philly Music Fest and Ballard Spahr’s VC Practice
In the first episode of Fall 2021, Abygaelle Loubeau chats with Greg Seltzer (LAW ’03) about venture capital financing transactions and his nonprofit, Philly Music Fest. Interviewer: Abygaelle Loubeau (LAW ’23) Guest: Gregory L. Seltzer, Partner at Ballard Spahr, Creator and Executive Producer of Philly Music Fest Third-party embedded content is blocked because marketing cookies
Third Circuit Clarifies What Makes a Contract “Executory” Under the Bankruptcy Code
: On May 21, 2021, the Third Circuit issued an opinion in the high-profile bankruptcy of The Weinstein Company, LLC (TWC) clarifying precisely what ingredients are needed to make a contract “executory” under § 365 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Making Tax Law Work: Improvisation and Forgotten Taxpayers in Partnership Tax
Professor Andrea Monroe explores the technical and cultural forces that have transformed substantive tax law for millions of taxpayers who struggle when filing their annual returns. Partnership tax offers a stark illustration of the fractures that have been caused by the normalization of complexity in tax law.
Connecticut Enacts Legislation Authorizing Retail and Online Sports Betting, Online Casino Gaming, and DFS, Prepares for October 7 Launch
Zachery B. Roth discusses Connecticut’s bill legalizing retail and online sports betting, online casino gaming, and DFS, and how such a bill could upend and change the current gaming system in the state.
Denying Black Musicians Their Royalties Has a History Emerging Out of Slavery
Professors Olufunmilayo Arewa of Temple Beasley School of Law, and Matt Stahl of Western University examine racialized contracting and accounting in the recording industry. Their work traces the origins of industry-wide discriminatory practices back to the days when African American slaves were systematically oppressed, controlled, and denied their rights of ownership to any form of property, be it tangible or intangible.
EDPB Ruling Provides Takeaways for DPA Standard Contractual Clauses
The European Data Protections Board (EDPB) issued an opinion on the draft Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) for a controller-processor data processing agreement under Article 28 (Data Processing Agreements) submitted by the Lithuanian supervisory authority.
What Presidio Teaches Us About the Matryoshka Doll Structure of M&A Litigation
S. Michael Sirkin discusses a Delaware M&A case, Presidio, outlining the different results obtained by each of the defendants based on their positions and involvement in the case and how this provides guidance for participants in transactions and subsequent litigation.
The “Moral” Waiver of IP Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines
Andrew J. Koopman, a Temple Law alum and lawyer in the Philadelphia area, co-wrote an article discussing why waiving IP protection for COVID-19 vaccines creates more problems than it solves, and why it may not do much to address underlying distribution problems.
Extension of Energy Related Tax Incentives Boosts Renewable Energy Industry
Congress signaled bipartisan support for renewable energy investment in the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Relief Act (the Act) of 2020, part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. Stradley Ronan Associate Andreas N. Andrews (LAW’14) published an article in Tax Notes and hosted a webcast with the Co-Chair of Stradley Ronan’s Environmental Group, Andrew Levine, about this development.