Only for the lawyer-nerds: Professor Bainbridge has written what seems to be an interesting law review article on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (popularly referred to as “SOx”). Basically, SOx is a response to the recent rash of corporate governance scandals, and resulted in the imposition of a series of (very boring) duties on certain lawyers intended to protect the public from corporate fraud.
I pass the article along for two reasons: First, having sat through innumerable boring SOx lectures, it’s great to see something on the subject that’s actually somewhat provocative. Second, as a practicing lawyer, I must say that I find most law review articles written by law professors to be somewhere between boring and useless (those written by practicioners tend to be better, ’cause they usually focus on real-world results*). Professor Bainbridge’s article looks to be neither. So, here’s a shout-out to the good Professor: keep doin’ what you’re doin’.
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*Speaking as a practicioner who’s currently writing an article regarding an area of patent law that once was little-used-and-even-less-explored, but now is starting to heat up (for the first time since 1952!).