September 2025

Friend-of-the-BLPB Will Moon has notified us that the University of Maryland is hiring a tenure-track or tenured position for its small business clinic.

The advertisement is linked below:
Job Description – Tenure-Track Professor, Small Business Clinic (250000O9)

Will suggests that the best way to apply is through the Taleo link found in the advertisement. While the position mentions “tenure track,” Will confirms that the committee is reviewing applications from both pre-tenured and tenured faculty.

At the University of Dayton, we value our inclusive climate because we know that diversity in experiences and perspectives is vital to advancing innovation, critical thinking, solving complex problems, and creating an inclusive academic community. Because we seek a workforce with a wide

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The Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law is pleased to announce its second annual Business and Tax Roundtable for Upcoming Professors (“BATRUP”). This in-person Roundtable will take place at UCLA from Monday evening June 1st through Wednesday afternoon June 3rd.  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 To ensure the Roundtable’s focus on evolving scholarship, we ask that submitted papers not be published or…

Mortals plan and the gods laugh.

With the caveat that it’s 5 in the morning here and I may be misreading, in which case I will correct this post or delete it entirely to hide my shame…

Tesla’s new proxy asks shareholder approval for Musk compensation, which we expected. But there are two elements.

The first is a go-forward plan which pays out massive amounts of shares if Musk meets dramatic new targets. I don’t have a whole lot to say about this one, except that the targets are meaningfully different from the package awarded in 2018 (and rescinded in 2024 by Delaware) in that they don’t just include share price increases; they also include sales targets. The 2018 grant only included share price increases and revenue/EBITDA targets that were pretty much matched to the share price increases, leaving the price increases as the only meaningful hurdles. I will let others weigh in on whether it’s a similar situation with the new proposal, but the sales/subscription requirements are a new feature that was not present previously – and, dare I say it – could in fact accomplish the task of forcing Musk to focus on Tesla rather than his…

As the erstwhile “Monday blogger” for the BLPB, I have written Labor Day posts over the years on a variety of Labor Day topics–from the history surrounding the holiday, to the labor of law teaching. Last year, I wrote about gratitude on Labor Day. This year, I carry that gratitude theme forward in a specific context: appreciation for lawyers and for being a lawyer.

I know that the holiday is not generally seen as a moment in the calendar year in which we step back to honor service professionals. As I have noted in prior Labor Day posts, the workers intended to be honored are those who made our country prosperous in and around the time of the Industrial Revolution–working long, hard hours for low pay. The Department of Labor’s website offers a summary description.

Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers. The holiday is rooted in the late nineteenth century, when labor activists pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the many contributions workers have made to America’s strength, prosperity, and well-being.

I mean no disrespect to that original intention by focusing on lawyers here. I continue to believe that…