Robert P. Bartlett III

A Response to Dolgopolov’s Critique of “How Rigged Are Stock Markets?”

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In his May 5 post, available here, Stanislav Dolgopolov states that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent settlement with Citadel “undermines the so-called ‘Berkeley Study’ which concluded that off-exchange market makers can neither profitably engage in data feed arbitrage by ‘filling marketable orders at (or within) the SIP-generated NBBO [National Best Bid and Offer] . . . at stale prices to the disadvantage of retail investors’ nor ‘choose as their pricing benchmark the slower SIP-generated NBBO to boost their performance metrics.’”  Mr. Dolgopolov further states that our study “skirted the fact that relevant strategies do not rely on choosing … Read more

Hobby Lobby and Closely Held Corporations

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The following post reproduces the text of a letter written by a group of corporate law professors at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in response to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ request for comments on the definition of “eligible organization” in light of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. 

Dear Sir or Madam:

We are all professors of law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, as well as specialists in the study and teaching of corporate law.[1] This letter responds to the request published in the Federal Register on August 27, 2014 (the … Read more