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Call for Papers: Business and Tax Roundtable

The Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law is pleased to announce its first annual Business and Tax Roundtable for Upcoming Professors (“BATRUP”). This in-person Roundtable will take place at UCLA from Friday evening June 13th through Sunday June 15th . The program will feature commentary by invited senior scholars as well as an opportunity to meet fellow aspiring scholars while enjoying Los Angeles. We warmly invite scholars preparing for the academic job market to participate.

Roundtable Purpose and Eligibility

The Roundtable is designed to offer mentorship and feedback to aspiring legal scholars who plan to pursue tenure-track positions at law schools. It is open to scholars who hold a JD, master’s degree, or PhD, who have not yet secured a tenure-track law faculty appointment, and who are not yet listed in this academic year’s Faculty Appointments Register. Selected authors must be able to attend the Roundtable in person at UCLA.

We welcome submissions on any topic within business law or tax law. Co-authored papers are eligible provided all authors meet the submission criteria. To ensure the Roundtable's focus on evolving scholarship, we ask that submitted papers not be published or scheduled for publication by the Roundtable date, though papers accepted for publication that remain open to substantive revisions are eligible.

Selection Process and Roundtable Details

We anticipate selecting 7–9 papers from the submissions received. For each selected paper, the Lowell Milken Institute will cover reasonable travel, accommodation, and meal expenses for one author to attend the Roundtable. Participants will have the chance to engage in dynamic exchanges with UCLA faculty and invited guest scholars, as well as with their peers. Our aim is to foster a supportive community of early-career business and tax law scholars as they prepare for their careers
in legal academia.

Submission Guidelines

Interested participants should submit either a complete draft or an extended summary of at least 5,000 words by email to [email protected] by February 14, 2025. We expect to notify authors of their selection by March 31, 2025. For any questions, please reach out to the same email address or to one of our faculty co-directors, Professors Jason Oh or Andrew Verstein.

Please feel free to share this call for papers with anyone who may be interested in participating.

New Securities Law Articles in Print

The following law review articles relating to securities regulation are now available in paper format:

John P. Anderson, Is the SEC Proposing a "Loaded-Question" Climate Change Disclosure Rule?, 84 La. L. Rev. 1263 (2024).

Joan MacLeod Heminway, The Materiality of ESG Information: Why It May Matter, 84 La. L. Rev. 1365 (2024).

Becky L. Jacobs, From CSR and TBL to ESG and the SDGs: Roots from Resistance to Regularization, 84 La. L. Rev. 1251 (2024).

Jennifer O'Hare, Continuing Education for Directors of Public Companies, 51 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 373 (2024).

Alessandro Piras, Note, Unraveling the Disgorgement Regime, 63 Santa Clara L. Rev. 565 (2024).

David Rosenfeld, Stay in Your Lane! Law, Politics, and the SEC's Climate Disclosure Proposal, 84 La. L. Rev. 1283 (2024).

Ahmed E. Taha, George Clooney Is Paid That Much? Regulating Celebrity Advertisements, 93 UMKC L. Rev. 107 (2024).

New Securities Law Articles in Print

The following law review articles relating to securities regulation are now available in paper format:

Sophie Abrams, Note, Full Moon or Full Fraud? A Proposed Method for Interpreting Emojis under Rule 10b-5, 89 Brook. L. Rev. 1259 (2024).

Waleed Alkoor, Student Article, Mining for Answers: Decrypting the Securities Puzzle of Cryptomining Hosting Contracts, 25 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 537 (2024).

Heather Hughes, Robots, Markets, and the Value of Deal Lawyers, 49 J. Corp. L. 833 (2024).

Christine Hurt, Socially Acceptable Securities Fraud, 49 J. Corp. L. 785 (2024).

Moran Ofir & Tal Elmakiess, The Eco-Agency Problem and Sustainable Investment, 49 BYU L. Rev. 1675 (2024).

Tommaso Oliveiro, Min Park & Hong Zou, Liquidity Effects of Litigation Risk: Evidence from a Legal Shock, 67 J.L. & Econ. 103 (2024).

Jillian Sarro, Note, Risky Retirement: A Proposal for FTC Oversight of Self-Directed IRAs, 52 Hofstra L. Rev. 1039 (2024).