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Professor Heminway brought nearly 15 years of corporate practice experience to the University of Tennessee College of Law when she joined the faculty in 2000. She practiced transactional business law (working in the areas of public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings) in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1985 through 2000.

She has served as an expert witness and consultant on business entity and finance and federal and state securities law matters and is a frequent academic and continuing legal education presenter on business law issues. Professor Heminway also has represented pro bono clients on political asylum applications, landlord/tenant appeals, social security/disability cases, and not-for-profit incorporations and related business law issues. Read More

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Merry Christmas to all celebrating today.  I am enjoying a white Christmas in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with my dad and my brother and his husband, joined later today by my son and his fiancée (who had to work the night shift last night–she’s a hospital nurse).  For the first time in many, many years–I think since before I was married in 1985–I am separated from my husband this Christmas.  He is back in Tennessee with my daughter, who celebrated her 26th birthday yesterday.  Their work schedules didn’t accommodate holiday travel this year.  My daughter, in particular, worked yesterday and will work again tomorrow.  The working world is a different place now during the holidays than it was when I was a child.

As I sit here with a blood orange mimosa on Christmas morning, that observation set me to thinking about blue laws and Christmas.  (Ann and I are thinking along similar lines this week, it seems . . . .)  A lot of folks save their shopping–including shopping for alcohol–until somewhat the last minute.  This year, Christmas is on a Monday, meaning that Christmas Eve–a prime shopping day–was on a Sunday.  I wondered whether any blue laws prevented stores…

Our colleagues and friends at the Burgundy School of Business have informed me about an opportunity to participate in the European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland from June 20-23.  (Note: these dates overlap with the 2018 National Business Law Scholars Conference.)  The Strategic Interest Group on Entrepreneurship (GIS 03) for the EURAM conference has established a sub-track on the “Sharing Economy” at the EURAM 2018 meeting. Djamchid Assadi of the Burgundy School of Business is coordinating this part of the program.

Djamchid is looking for both paper submissions and reviewers for the Sharing Economy sub-track.  Paper submissions are due by January 10 (2:00 pm Belgium time) and applications to serve as a reviewer are due December 31.  (Paper presenters are required to review at least two papers at the conference.)  Information about the conference can be found here.  The reviewer application form is available here.

Please contact Djamchid at Djamchid.Assadi@bsb-education.com if you are interested in submitting a paper.  He can tell you how to designate the paper for GIS 03.  Apparently, in GIS 03, you can declare your interest in the “The Sharing Economy” subtract.  Please feel free to use my name in…

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As I earlier noted, I have planned to write on meal delivery kits.  What is a meal delivery kit, you ask?  It is a delivered-to-your-door box of ingredients and recipes for meals.  All of the ingredients (except pantry essentials) needed to produce the meals shown and described in the recipe cards are included in the box.  All the recipient has to do is follow the recipe instructions and produce the meals.  Reviews of meal kits that describe additional features can be found here (July 2017), here (October 2016), here (May 2016), and here (May 2015).

My husband ordered us our first meal kit (from Blue Apron) last year as an anniversary present to me.  The idea (which has worked exceedingly well) was that we would be able to more easily prepare meals together, since I often design meals on the fly and cook based on what I sense is needed.  It’s pretty hard to assign tasks consistently and continuously using my natural method of meal preparation.  The meal kits solved this problem neatly.  So, having found success with Blue Apron, we decided to try a few other brands.  Specifically, we also have ordered meal kits from Plated and…

The twelfth annual meeting of the Law and Entrepreneurship Association (LEA) will occur on February 9, 2018 at the University of Alabama School of Law

The LEA is a group of legal scholars interested in the topic of entrepreneurship—broadly construed. Scholars include those who write about corporate law and finance, securities, intellectual property, labor and employment law, tax, and other fields related to entrepreneurship and innovation policy.

Our annual conference is an intimate gathering where each participant is expected to read and actively engage with all of the pieces under discussion. We call for papers and proposals relating to the general topic of entrepreneurship and the law.

Proposals should be comprehensive enough to allow the LEA board to evaluate the aims and likely content of papers they propose. Papers may be accepted for publication but must not be published prior to the meeting. Works in progress, even those at a relatively early stage, are welcome. Junior scholars and those considering entering the legal academy are especially encouraged to participate.

To submit a presentation, email Professor Mirit Eyal-Cohen at meyalcohen@law.ua.edu with a proposal or paper by December 31, 2017. Please title the email “LEA Submission – {Name}.”

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While I was in France last week touring and attending an academic conference, a French music legend died and was mourned.  Johnny Hallyday, the King of French rock ‘n’ roll (known widely as the “French Elvis”), died earlier this month at the age of 74 after a battle with lung cancer.  I learned of this in a circuitous way–because one of his songs, Quelque Choses de Tennessee (Something of Tennessee), was playing on the radio in a hotel shuttle van and caught my attention (for obvious reasons, although the song refers to Tennessee Williams, not the state, as it turns out).  Also, I happened to be in Paris the day of his funeral, when many roads (including the Avenue des Champs-Élysées) were blocked off for the related activities.

Curiosity about the song and the singer led me to the Internet.  My Internet searching revealed Hallyday as the singer and described an interesting life.  This guy loved the United States–not only adopting rock ‘n’ roll, but also writing lyrics about this country based on his U.S. travels.  Perhaps most famous is Mon Amérique à Moi (My America and Me), which includes the following lyrics near and dear…

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Because I am having significant Internet access issues through the Wi-Fi in Terminal A at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport (where I am waiting to board a flight to France to present a crowdfunding paper later in the week), I am writing a short “preview” post this week. I am typing this on my cell phone. Please forgive typos, etc.

I have promised a number of folks that I would write a post about the food delivery services I have been using for a bit more than a year now–Blue Apron, Plated, and Hello Fresh. My idea is to write about the business model, comparative attributes, legal aspects, and anything else that might make sense. So, I post today to ask you what you want to know. You can suggest a business, legal, or personal topic. Have at it! And if you’d rather PM me, just send an email. I will keep a folder and use your ideas to plan my post.  Or maybe I will end up with enough for more than one post. Who knows?

Anyway, thanks in advance for your ideas. And I apologize for the short post. But this proves to be a…