Requiescat in pace.

We are especially thankful this year to welcome and celebrate our first grandchild!

My take on the new opinion by DE Chancellor McCormick upholding her invalidation of Musk's >$50B 2018 pay package is that stockholder approval cannot ratify the conflicted-controller transaction, because proxy statements contained multiple, material misstatements.

I've been reading The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson, which has prompted me to consider following up on an article I wrote for the annual Berle Symposium on corporate law. @garyseconomics.bsky.social digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol45/i...

My most recent article, Fallout and Fiduciary Duty, considers how popular media critiques corporate law, which it blames for contributing to monopoly power, labor exploitation, wealth stratification, enshittification, and the rise of oligarchs. repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_bus...

I study law and religion (with particular expertise in Islam & Catholicism). See my recent article, Religious Originalism, 69 Wayne LR 311-362 (2024). I also write about corporate law, sometimes addressing overlaps with con law and religion. My faculty page is law.seattleu.edu/faculty/dire...