The Southeastern Association of Law Schools is holding its annual conference in Sandestin, Florida from July 27 through August 3.  The current draft program is available here.  I hope a number of you are planning to come.

In addition to my usual co-moderation (with the inimitable John Anderson) of an insider trading discussion group at the conference, I am looking to moderate the following discussion group:

Elon Musk and the Law

Moderator: Joan Heminway, The University of Tennessee College of Law

Enigmatic entrepreneur Elon Musk has found himself—and his businesses and his family—in the crosshairs of law and regulation. The legal and regulatory issues span a wide range, including First Amendment questions, securities disclosure challenges, legal contests involving the name of his son born in 2020 (with the musician Grimes), and more. This discussion group aims to identify, classify, and analyze these legal and regulatory interactions and interpret their effects on law reform, regulatory entrepreneurship, legal and administrative process, business venturing, and other areas of inquiry. Comparisons to and contrasting views of other public figures and their legal and regulatory tangles may be explored in the process.

Email me if you are interested in participating.

Also, I wish all a feliz Cinco de Mayo.  Wikipedia reminds me that Cinco de Mayo is both a celebration of Mexican-American food and culture in the United States and a commemoration of “Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.” The Wikipedia article notes that “[t]he victory of a smaller, poorly equipped Mexican force against the larger and better-armed French army was a morale boost for the Mexicans.”  Ukraine immediately comes to mind.  And I guess (feebly tying all this back to Elon Musk) one could take the view that a smaller, poorly equipped Twitter lost out to a larger and better armed acquiror in it recent kerfuffle-turned-takeover-battle with Elon Musk . . . .  I know many of us will continue to have commentary on the Twitter acquisition as the transaction proceeds.