QUESTION: I have noticed language in a number of receivership orders providing that the receivership entities’ officers and directors are removed and their powers are vested in the receiver and further enjoining the officers and directors from filing...

Brazil’s long-debated “Internet Bill of Rights” has finally become law. The legislation, which passed the Brazilian Senate unanimously in April, is intended to secure equality of access to the Internet in Brazil—i.e., Net Neutrality—and provide...

British anthropologist David Graeber recalls discovering the remarkable career of a childhood friend. The friend was a poet and then the front man in an indie rock band—a singer Graeber heard on the radio without realizing he was the friend he had known.

In City of Pontiac Policemen’s and Firemen’s Retirement System v. UBS AG (“City of Pontiac”), the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit clarified an earlier ruling and further limited when US securities laws may reach non-US securities and...