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Egg Donor Antitrust Suit In Today’s WSJ
In today’s WSJ, Ashby Jones discusses Kamakahi v. ASRM, the egg donor antitrust suit that I’ve written about on numerous occasions (see links below). From the text: How much is a human egg worth? The...
View Article“Feeble Even By Normal Litigation Standards”
It seems that Ashby Jones opened the floodgates with his recent Wall Street Journal article on Kamakahi v. ASRM, the antitrust suit challenging the ethical guidelines on egg donor compensation...
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Duke Project On Law And Markets
A few years back, I put up a few posts discussing a new initiative we were trying out at my school, called the Duke Project on Custom and Law. As I said at the time: We’re trying out something new at...
View ArticleThe Internship As Professional Training And Barrier to Entry
Al Roth has an interesting post about law internships in Israel (and about professional licensing – particularly lawyer licensing – more generally), based on a recent Ynet story. Apparently Israel has...
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Medical Research Subjects: Guinea Pigs, Laborers, Or Altruists?
Guinea pig wearing nurses hat Cari Romm has a great article in The Atlantic, The Life of a Professional Guinea Pig: What It’s Like To Earn A Living As A Research Subject In Clinical Trials. (HT: Jamie...
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If You Want A Market, Have A Market . . . Otherwise
By now most readers will have seen the article in Friday’s New York Times discussing Kamakahi v. ASRM, the egg donor price fixing litigation that I’ve blogged about numerous times here. (See links...
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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Government Compensation of Kidney Donors
Friends Philip Held and Frank McCormick (together with A. Ojo and J.P. Roberts) have just published A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Government Compensation of Kidney Donors in the latest issue of the...
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The NY Times Weighs In On Egg Donor Price Fixing
And gets it right. As I mentioned a few days ago, the NY Times recently published a much-read piece about Kamakahi v. ASRM, the egg donor class action that accuses the American Society for Reproductive...
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Kweku Adoboli Speaks!
With Lindsay Fortado of the FT, that is. Adoboli, who just finished a four-year prison term in connection with his loss of $2.3 billion through unauthorized trades while employed at UBS gives a podcast...
View ArticleKweku Adoboli’s Future Career In Music Promotion?
I mentioned earlier Kweku Adoboli’s recent podcast interview with Lindsay Fortado of the FT, and listening to it has convinced me that, though his career as a trader may be over, perhaps he has a...
View ArticleWeidemaier: Dear NY Times: Thank You For Letting Me Sue Only 500 Miles From...
Over at Credit Slips, Mark Weidemaier has a nice post on the NY Times recent series on arbitration. From the text: The attention on arbitration also seems a bit disproportionate, given the...
View ArticleDefending Nuance (or, just fuck it. Seriously.)
Contract law scholars may be interested in a new paper, The Relational Economics of Commercial Contract, recently posted to SSRN by Chapin Cimino of Drexel Law School: Abstract: For almost half a...
View ArticleBioNews: Egg donors to challenge US payment rules in court
From BioNews: Egg donors are suing the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) in a class-action lawsuit for setting a ‘price cap’...
View ArticleGordon and Hedlund On Financial Aid And Rising College Tuition
Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok discusses a new NBER paper, Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition, by Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund: Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund create a sophisticated...
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Black Markets Versus Regulated Markets (Rhino Edition)
Over at Market Design blog, Al Roth flags an interesting controversy developing in South Africa – whether to abandon the current ban on Rhino horn and horn products, in favor of a regulated market in...
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The Washington Post Debates Organ Donor Compensation
In my black market Rhino horn post yesterday, I mentioned that a recent proposal to legalize a market in sustainably harvested Rhino horn: . . . highlights some pretty standard debates about taboo...
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Egg Donors Get Pay Limits Axed With Antitrust Settlement
From Law360: Egg Donors Get Pay Limits Axed With Antitrust Settlement By Kelly Knaub Law360, New York (February 1, 2016, 7:01 PM ET) — A class of human-egg donors who allege the American Society for...
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Duke Project On Law And Markets: Updates
In the fall, I posted about my school’s yearlong initiative on Law & Markets, led by Joseph Blocher and me. The initiative builds on the model developed a few years ago by my colleagues Curt...
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Our Day Of Market Design
Al Roth with Taboo Trades seminar, March 23, 2016 As I mentioned in my last post, 2012 Nobel Prize winner Al Roth visited Duke Law School this week as a guest of the Law & Markets project. We...
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The Moral Limits Of Free Markets In Boulder
On Monday, I’ll be at CU Boulder’s Center For Western Civilization, Thought, & Policy, along with Jason Brennan (Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics & Public Policy, Georgetown...
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