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Rather v. CBS Contracts Story Omitted from Redford’s “Truth”
Robert Redford’s latest film, Truth, dramatizes the last stand of newsman Dan Rather, longtime face of CBS News until fired for a controversial 2004 broadcast about President George W. Bush. The film,...
View ArticleHot Topics 2015 to 2016: A New Year Note
What an eventful 2015! Thanks to you, my friends and colleagues in media, business, investing, and academia, for engaging conversations, publications, and gatherings on a range of topics. These include...
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Delaware’s Latest Show of Corporate Savvy
Delaware continues to be the savviest seller in the world of corporate charters and related services, thanks to a combination of judicial vision and legislative elegance supported by all the state’s...
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Warren Buffett’s Timeless Ten Investing Rules
About 10 years ago, editors of Investing Rules asked me the top ten rules from Warren Buffett on investing. Last week, the editors asked me to update the list for a new edition. After studying the...
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Scalia and The Sherlock Holmes Canon: Canine Silence
Justice Scalia Speaking at GW While Justice Antonin Scalia‘s life is celebrated in a Catholic Mass of Christian Burial tomorrow in Washington by family and close friends, his legacy is being elaborated...
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Dale Oesterle on Buffett & Munger 20 Years Later
Editor’s Note: Dale Oesterle (Ohio State U.) contributes an extended version of his current reflections on The Buffett Essays Symposium: A 20th Anniversary Annotated Transcript, recently published by...
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Buffett’s Timeless Investing Principles
Warren Buffett distills investment success into three words—margin of safety—and tells investors to take one of two approaches: either focus on value or buy an index fund. Buffett, the “Oracle of...
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Donald Trump, Prolific Frivolous Litigator, Part I
Donald Trump (credit: Business Insider) For about two years, Chicago’s skyline has had the letters T R U M P adorning a showy luxury building the presumptive Republican presidential nominee put up...
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Trump v. Mahr: Another Donald Contract Folly
(Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images) In 2012, Donald Trump, flirting with a run for the presidency of the United States and criticizing its incumbent, Barak Obama, pressured the President to confirm his...
View ArticleBerkshire’s Blemishes: Lessons for Buffett’s Successors, Peers, and Policy
Columbia University has published my most recent research paper, available free on SSRN (registration required): “Berkshire’s Blemishes: Lessons for Buffett’s Successors, Peers, and Policy.” Here is...
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What’s Buffett’s Secret to Great Writing?
We all write more than ever today, but do we communicate well? As one group, corporate directors, pondered how to communicate effectively to shareholders, they turned to the gold standard. They...
View ArticleAdvice on Legal Book Publishing
Opinion Poll on Behalf of Younger Colleague Ready to Publish First Casebook in First Year Course. Suppose offers of publication by the following publishers. What’s the order of ranking, assuming all...
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Major Contracts Symposium at GW
Divergence and Reform in the Common Law of Contracts is the title of this year’s GW Law Review Symposium and anyone interested in contracts and/or comparative law will want to join us for it on...
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Coming Soon: “The Warren Buffett Shareholder”
Why do 40,000 shareholders regularly go to Omaha, Nebraska, for the Annual Meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, the company Warren Buffett built? We asked 45 famous recurring visitors to ponder this question...
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Berkshire’s Prosperous Simplicity: Try It!
Berkshire Hathaway is simple. Though among America’s largest public companies, it is almost entirely self sufficient. It rarely uses intermediaries — brokers, lenders, advisers, consultants and other...
View ArticleContract Interpretation 2.0: Not Winner-Take-All But Best-Tool-For-The-Job
In a centuries-old debate among contracts scholars, one group supports a presumption favoring a text-centered approach to the interpretation of a written agreement — the plain meaning taken from the...
View ArticleNew Book: Jack Bogle Appreciates Warren Buffett’s Surprise Shout Out
From this morning’s Omaha World Herald. Editor’s note: In a new book, “The Warren Buffett Shareholder,” Buffett-watchers Lawrence Cunningham and Stephanie Cuba have compiled essays by 43 people about...
View ArticleCunningham “Buffett Shareholder” Omaha Events 2018
Following are the public events during this year’s Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting surrounding the launch of our new book, The Warren Buffett Shareholder. Hope to see some of you there, and regrets...
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Lynn Stout, RIP, Sparred with Charlie Munger
Charlie Munger met his match in Lynn Stout. Mr. Munger, Warren Buffett’s best friend since 1959, is a notoriously fierce debater who does not suffer fools gladly. At a symposium on The Essays of Warren...
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Buffett Shareholders at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2018
Whew! What a wonderful time at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2018 Annual Meeting, an annual ritual I’ve enjoyed since 1997, and with my wife Stephanie for the past decade. This year was special for many...
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