Reza Dibadj

Books

• Rescuing Regulation (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2006). (Paperback edition released June 2007.)

Law Review and Journal Articles

• "Brokers, Fiduciaries and a Beginning," 30 Boston University Review of Banking and Financial Law 1 (2012). SSRN
• "Expressive Rights for Shareholders After Citizens United?" 46 University of San Francisco Law Review 459 (2011). (Symposium Issue: "Democracy Inc?: Citizens United, Corporate Expenditures and the Future of Campaign Finance Law.") SSRN
• "Dodd Frank: Toward First Principles," 15 Chapman Law Review 79 (2010). (Symposium Issue: "From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of Financial Regulation.") SSRN
• "Brokers, Fiduciaries, and a Beginning," Boston University Review of Banking and Financial Law (forthcoming).
• "Citizens United as Corporate Law Narrative," 16 Nexus: Chapman's Journal of Law and Policy 39 (2011). (Symposium Issue: "Citizens Divided on Citizens United: Campaign Finance Reform and the First Amendment.") SSRN
• "Conscious Parallelism Revisited," 47 San Diego Law Review 589 (2010). SSRN
• "Four Key Elements for Successful Financial Regulatory Reform," 6 Hastings Business Law Journal 377 (2010). (Symposium Issue: "Beyond the Bailout: Risk, Responsibility, and the Road Ahead.") SSRN
• "How Does the Government Interact with Business? From History to Controversies," 5 Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal  707 (2010). (Symposium Issue: "The Relationship Between American Government and American Business") SSRN
• "An Uneasy Case for White-Collar "Martyrs"," University of San Francisco Law Review (2010). (Invited Response) SSRN
• "Networks of Heightened Scrutiny in Corporate Law," 46 San Diego Law Review 1 (2009). SSRN
• "Anti-Monopolization Workarounds," 17 Competition 207 (2008). ("The Cartwright Act at 100—Special Celebratory Issue") SSRN
• "A Response to Professor Catherine J.K. Sandoval's Antitrust Language Barriers," 60 FED. COMM. L. J. F. 64 (2008).
• "Networks of Fairness Review in Corporate Law," 45 San Diego Law Review 1 (2008). SSRN
• "Panglossian Transnationalism," 44 Stanford Journal of International Law 253 (2008). SSRN
• "The Process-Welfare Nexus," 33 Oklahoma City University Law Review 837 (2008). (Book Review) SSRN
• "Article 82: Gestalt, Myths, Questions," 23 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 615 (2007). (Symposium Issue: "Cross-Border Legal Challenges in High Tech Law") SSRN
• "Attractive Polarities, Narrow Boundaries," London School of Economics, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) 75th Anniversary Conference Proceedings 472 (STICERD, 2009). (Frank Cowell & Amos Witztum, eds.) SSRN
• "Postmodernism, Representation, Law," 29 University of Hawaii Law Review 377 (2007). SSRN
• "The Political Economy of Commercial Speech," 58 South Carolina Law Review 913 (2007). (Symposium Issue: "Commercial Speech in an Era of Emerging Technology and Corporate Scandal") SSRN
• "From Incongruity to Cooperative Federalism," 40 University of San Francisco Law Review 845 (2006). (Symposium Issue: "Federalism in Securities Regulation: Rethinking the Balance") SSRN
• "The Misguided Transformation of Loyalty into Contract," 41 Tulsa Law Review 451 (2006). (Symposium Issue: “Disputed Concepts in Contemporary Business Association Law: Discussions of Fiduciary Duty and Capital Lock-In.) SSRN
• "A Modest Enterprise," 10 Lewis & Clark Law Review 415 (2006). (Book Review) SSRN
• "Weasel Numbers," 27 Cardozo Law Review 1325 (2006). SSRN
• "Review of Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution," 28 World Competition Law and Economics Review 619 (2005). (Book Review)
• "Review of Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution," 50 Antitrust Bulletin 223 (2005). (Book Review) SSRN
• "Delayering Corporate Law," 34 Hofstra Law Review 469 (2005). SSRN
• "The Limits of Utilitarianism," 6 Nevada Law Journal 201 (2005). (Book Review) SSRN
• "Reconceiving the Firm," 26 Cardozo Law Review 1459 (2005). SSRN
• "Saving Antitrust," 75 University of Colorado Law Review 745 (2004). SSRN
• "Beyond Facile Assumptions and Radical Assertions: A Case for 'Critical Legal Economics'," Utah Law Review 1155 (2003). SSRN
• "Competitive Debacle in Local Telephony: Is the 1996 Telecommunications Act to Blame?" 81 Washington University Law Quarterly 1 (2003). SSRN
• "Regulatory Givings and the Anticommons," 64 Ohio State Law Journal 1041 (2003). SSRN
• "Toward Meaningful Cable Competition: Getting Beyond the Monopoly Morass," 6 New York University (N.Y.U.) Journal of Legislation & Public Policy 245 (2003). SSRN

Book Contributions

• "Compagnie des Indes: Governance and Bailout," in The Origins of Shareholder Advocacy  (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2010). SSRN
• "Anti-Social Norms, Risky Behavior," in Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk edited by Robert W. Kolb and Donald Schwartz, 70 (Wiley Blackwell, 2009).

Opinion Pieces and Blog Posts

• "To Stem Corporate Scandals, Get Back to Basics," USF Lawyer (March 2009).
• "Markets Need Viable Rules," National Law Journal (February 2009). (The article was reprinted in The Recorder in February 2009 and the New Jersey Law Journal in March 2009.)
• "Irrational Exuberance," International Herald Tribune (October 2008). (Letter to the Editor.)
• "Time to Discuss Deregulation and Distribution of Wealth," Baltimore Sun (September 2008).
• "Can Postmodernism Save the World?" Baltimore Sun (April 2007).
• "State Corporate Law: No Regulatory Muscle," National Law Journal (April 2006). (Reprinted in the Broward Daily Business Review, Miami Daily Business Review, and Palm Beach Daily Business Review in April 2006.)
• "Government Is Bad, Isn’t It?" San Francisco Chronicle (September 2005). (Excerpted in Christian Science Monitor in September 2005. Reprinted in USF In the News, Spring 2006.)
• "Now, How to Pay for It," San Francisco Chronicle (February 2005). (Reprinted in USF In the News, Spring 2006.)
• "Monopoly v. Municipality," National Law Journal (February 2005). (Reprinted in New Jersey Law Journal in February 2005.)
• "FCC Must Turn Back to First Principles of Law, Economics," San Francisco Daily Journal, Los Angeles Daily Journal (February 2005).
• "Small Firms, Speak Up Loudly For Innovation," San Jose Mercury News (January 2005).
• "First We’re Overprotected, Then Shoved Out the Door," Wall Street Journal (November 2004). (Letter responding to Nobel Laureate Edward Prescott.)
• "At 90, Time to Reform," National Law Journal (October 2004).
• "Rescuing Broadband in America Requires a New Path," San Francisco Daily Journal, Los Angeles Daily Journal (September 2004). (Reprinted in USF In the News, Spring 2005.)
• "Let’s Revitalize Regulation," National Law Journal (September 2003). (Reprinted in the New Jersey Law Journal, Miami Daily Business Review, and Palm Beach Daily Business Review in October 2003.)
• "Now Is the Time to Reshape America’s Regulators," Financial Times (London) (September 2003).
• "Excesses of Burst Economic Bubble Persist in Aftermath," Los Angeles Daily Journal (September 2003).
• "Deregulation: A Tragedy in Three Acts," Washington Post (September 2003). (Translated into Portuguese for O Estado do Sao Paolo.)

Other Publications

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Presentations

• Moderator, "Corporate Governance: Should Shareholders Get a Vote on Corporate Campaign Expenditures?" University of San Francisco Law Review Symposium, "Democracy, Inc? Citizens United, Corporate Expenditures & the Future of Campaign Finance Law," (February 2011).
• Presenter, "Compagnie des Indes: Governance and Bailout," Yale School of Management Millstein Center for Corporate Governance Conference "Origins of Shareholder Advocacy," New Haven, Conn. (forthcoming).
• Panelist, "Congress Punts; Administrative Agencies Receive; Welcome to a Decade of Rulemaking," 2011 Chapman Law Review Symposium "From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of Financial Regulation," Chapman University School of Law, Orange, Calif. (January 2011).
• Presenter, "Toward First Principles," Chapman Law Review 2011 Symposium "From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of Financial Regulation," Orange, Calif. (January 2011).
• Presenter, "Tacit Cartels, Oligopolies, and the Problem of Conscious Parallelism," University of San Francisco School of Law Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Workshop Series, (2010).
• Presenter, "From History to Controversies," Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal Symposium "The Relationship Between American Government and American Business," Columbus, Ohio (March 2010).
• Presenter, "Tacit Cartels, Oligopolies, and the Problem of Conscious Parallelism," Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada (October 2009).
• Presenter, "Networks of Heightened Scrutiny in Corporate Law," International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) Annual Conference, Berkeley, Calif. (June 2009).
• Panelist, "Regulating Risk," UC Hastings Business Law Journal Symposium "Beyond the Bailout: Risk, Responsibility and the Road Ahead," San Francisco, Calif. (April 2009).
• Presenter, "Networks of Judicial Review in Corporate Law," Santa Clara University School of Law Faculty Forum, Santa Clara, Calif. (2009).
• Presenter, "Networks of Judicial Review in Corporate Law," UC Berkeley School of Law Faculty Workshop, Berkeley, Calif. (2009).
• Presenter, "Networks of Heightened Scrutiny in Corporate Law," Florida State University College of Law Faculty Workshop Series, Tallahassee, Fla. (2009).
• Presenter, "Anti-Social Norms, Risky Behavior," Loyola University Chicago Center for Integrated Risk Management and Corporate Governance Annual Conference "Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk," Chicago, Ill. (2008).
• Presenter, "Beyond National Law," International Trade and Finance Association International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (2008).
• Presenter, "Theory of the Firm: Norms and Interdisciplinarity," European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy International Conference "Gouverner l’entreprise: propriété, institutions, société," Paris, France (2008).
• Presenter, "The Misguided Transformation of Loyalty Into Contract," University of California, Hastings College of the Law Faculty Colloquium, San Francisco, Calif. (2008).
• Presenter, "Article 82: Gestalt, Myths, Questions," Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal Symposium "Cross-Border Challenges in High-Tech Law," San Jose, Calif. (2007).
• Presenter, "Attractive Polarities, Narrow Boundaries," London School of Economics "75th Anniversary of Lionel Robbins’s 'Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science'," London, England (2007).
• Presenter, "Overplaying International Law," Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Mid-Year Meeting "What is Wrong with the Way We Teach and Write International Law," Vancouver, Canada (2007).
• Presenter, "The Political Economy of Commercial Speech," University of South Carolina Law Review Symposium "Commercial Speech in an Age of Emerging Technology and Corporate Scandal," Columbia, S.C. (2007).
• Presenter, "The Rhetoric of Fairness," Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada (2007).
• Presenter, "The Rhetoric of Fairness," European Association of Law & Economics (EALE) Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark (2007).
• Presenter, "What’s Left of Fiduciary Duty?" Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting "Section on Agency, Partnership, LLCs and Unincorporated Associations," Washington, DC (2006).
• Presenter, "From Incongruity to Cooperative Federalism," University of San Francisco Law Review Symposium "Federalism in Securities Regulation: Rethinking the Balance," (2006).
• Presenter, "Reputation as an Entry Barrier," Loyola University Chicago School of Law Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Annual Colloquium, Chicago, Ill. (2006).
• Presenter, "Firms, Norms, and Public Law," Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2004).
• Presenter, "Debunking Myths Surrounding Open Access," Federation of Internet Solution Providers of the Americas Annual Conference, New Orleans, La. (2004).

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