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Business Law Cocktail Hour – Corporate Ordering: How Companies Write the First Draft of the Law
Speaker: Stavros Gadinis, UC Berkeley Law When a police department asked Microsoft for real-time facial recognition on body cameras, no law told the company what to do. Its internal review process, built years before any AI statute existed, said no, and the escalation path that produced that answer now looks a lot like what the EU AI Act requires. Drawing on conversations with the general counsel and governance teams at Microsoft, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Uber, Lyft and Salesforce, this talk…
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Stavros Gadinis, UC Berkeley School of Law – Selections from Corporate Ordering: How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict
Find out more »The California Billionaire Tax: Design, Doctrine, and Dollars
Proposition 40, on the November 3 ballot, would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of California’s billionaires. It would be the nation’s first state tax on individual net worth and a sharp break from California’s usual reliance on income, sales, and property taxes. Supporters see it as a way to address wealth concentration and fund health care programs; critics point to valuation problems, the risk of taxpayer departures, and likely constitutional challenges. Professor Darien Shanske (UC Davis…
Find out more »Business Law Workshop: Karen Woody
Karen Woody, Washington and Lee School of Law – A Taxonomy of Materiality
Find out more »Global Business Policy Forum – Antitrust Without Borders
Antitrust Without Borders: The Growing Global Reach of Competition Enforcement. As competition authorities around the world assume an increasingly active role in reviewing mergers, acquisitions, and business practices, companies face a new reality: decisions affecting predominantly U.S. firms and markets can be shaped by regulators far beyond America’s borders. From Washington and Brussels to Beijing and other major jurisdictions, antitrust enforcement has become a global enterprise. Recent transactions illustrate how companies must navigate a complex web of regulatory reviews across…
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Emilie Aguirre, Duke University School of Law – Profiting from Prediction
Find out more »Business Law Workshop: Menesh Patel
Menesh Patel, UC Davis School of Law – Socially-Minded Investors and Corporate Behavior
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