Roberto Tallarita
@rtallarita.bsky.social
Law, corporations, markets, too many books
https://faculty.law.harvard.edu/roberto-tallarita/
https://faculty.law.harvard.edu/roberto-tallarita/
Yesterday, I had the pleasure to speak with David Wakeling, Global Head of the AI Group at A&O Shearman, in front of an audience of HLS faculty and students.
We talked about how associates use AI, the future of Big Law and law schools...
We talked about how associates use AI, the future of Big Law and law schools...
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Yesterday, I had the pleasure to speak with David Wakeling, Global Head of the AI Group at A&O Shearman, in front of an audience of HLS faculty and students.
We talked about how associates use AI, the future of Big Law and law schools...
We talked about how associates use AI, the future of Big Law and law schools...
Tonight we’ll learn the fundamentals of scorekeeping
July 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Tonight we’ll learn the fundamentals of scorekeeping
New working paper (with Kenneth Khoo) on the controversial Delaware corporate law reform (SB 21). We examine the market reaction to SB 21 through a series of event studies and we find that the market thinks the new rules are bad for investors.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments welcome!
June 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New working paper (with Kenneth Khoo) on the controversial Delaware corporate law reform (SB 21). We examine the market reaction to SB 21 through a series of event studies and we find that the market thinks the new rules are bad for investors.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments welcome!
I haven’t visited Henry in a while—five or six months. Sorry, Henry. But he’s doing well—just a bit grumpy these days. “Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice?”
April 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I haven’t visited Henry in a while—five or six months. Sorry, Henry. But he’s doing well—just a bit grumpy these days. “Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice?”
Im here to tell you that a harpsichord solo can be exhilarating if Ian Watson is playing Brandenburg no. 5
February 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Im here to tell you that a harpsichord solo can be exhilarating if Ian Watson is playing Brandenburg no. 5
When I make "Tallarita's Corporations Illustrated" publicly available, I'm sure this will be one of the most beloved illustrations
February 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
When I make "Tallarita's Corporations Illustrated" publicly available, I'm sure this will be one of the most beloved illustrations
I like the debate on whether today's economists should read old economists, but a more interesting one is whether generals should travel to the battlefield with a small library of classics
January 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I like the debate on whether today's economists should read old economists, but a more interesting one is whether generals should travel to the battlefield with a small library of classics
Many people don’t like the idea of a literary canon. I do like it, but if the editor of the NYT Book Review doesn’t read the canon, (sadly) there is no canon.
January 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Many people don’t like the idea of a literary canon. I do like it, but if the editor of the NYT Book Review doesn’t read the canon, (sadly) there is no canon.
I can’t use this verb anymore because those like me would think ChatGPT wrote it
December 19, 2024 at 1:55 AM
I can’t use this verb anymore because those like me would think ChatGPT wrote it
When your Corporations students learn the truly important things you teach them
December 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM
When your Corporations students learn the truly important things you teach them
So this now has a physical (and hopefully mental) life of its own. I know that the JCL will publish two comments/responses by two extremely thoughtful and sharp experts on dual class companies. I’m honored and excited and I look forward to their pieces.
December 16, 2024 at 3:33 PM
So this now has a physical (and hopefully mental) life of its own. I know that the JCL will publish two comments/responses by two extremely thoughtful and sharp experts on dual class companies. I’m honored and excited and I look forward to their pieces.
And his argument is this: These violent passions led to some (other) bad choices, sure. But in a young person (well, man) they are a good thing, when coupled with good values. When he gets older, he will learn to channel those unruly energies in a way that is good for the public welfare.
December 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
And his argument is this: These violent passions led to some (other) bad choices, sure. But in a young person (well, man) they are a good thing, when coupled with good values. When he gets older, he will learn to channel those unruly energies in a way that is good for the public welfare.
The way the court seems to frame what happened is that SEC exercised power by green-lighting the Nasdaq rule--which raises interesting questions about what's an exercise of delegated power.
December 14, 2024 at 4:14 PM
The way the court seems to frame what happened is that SEC exercised power by green-lighting the Nasdaq rule--which raises interesting questions about what's an exercise of delegated power.
Curious what admin law experts think, but here it seems notable (and novel?) that the 5th Cir. here uses the Major Questions Doctrine to conclude that the SEC should have exercised *more* power, rather than *less*, to block Nasdaq's board diversity rule
December 14, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Curious what admin law experts think, but here it seems notable (and novel?) that the 5th Cir. here uses the Major Questions Doctrine to conclude that the SEC should have exercised *more* power, rather than *less*, to block Nasdaq's board diversity rule
For 2 semesters, my homemade Corporations casebook has been illustrated in the style of 1970-1980s comics. But now I'm revising it in the style of Saul Bass's title sequences
December 7, 2024 at 6:45 PM
For 2 semesters, my homemade Corporations casebook has been illustrated in the style of 1970-1980s comics. But now I'm revising it in the style of Saul Bass's title sequences
I love Cambridge, but I’m not sure how it could be a decent substitute for “New York’s sparkling social life.” Or maybe it was, in 1787!
December 7, 2024 at 2:03 AM
I love Cambridge, but I’m not sure how it could be a decent substitute for “New York’s sparkling social life.” Or maybe it was, in 1787!
I find Spotify’s awkwardness in dealing with classical music endearing… You played 1,072 songs this year, and your favorite song was… Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria in Excelsis Deo
December 6, 2024 at 4:16 AM
I find Spotify’s awkwardness in dealing with classical music endearing… You played 1,072 songs this year, and your favorite song was… Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Reality check from the amazing profile of rare books and archives seller Glenn Horowitz in the New Yorker of a few weeks ago | A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Reality check from the amazing profile of rare books and archives seller Glenn Horowitz in the New Yorker of a few weeks ago | A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Handel’s Messiah by the H+H orchestra (a Bostonian tradition since 1854)
December 2, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Handel’s Messiah by the H+H orchestra (a Bostonian tradition since 1854)
When I wrote about a Manhattan Project for AI in the Harvard Biz Review, I would have never imagined to see this kind of recommendation only 1 year later. But the point is: We need a Manhattan Project for AI “alignment” with human values and goals, not for AGI
November 21, 2024 at 1:13 PM
When I wrote about a Manhattan Project for AI in the Harvard Biz Review, I would have never imagined to see this kind of recommendation only 1 year later. But the point is: We need a Manhattan Project for AI “alignment” with human values and goals, not for AGI
Thomas Schelling, The Stragegy of Conflict 90 (1960)
November 12, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Thomas Schelling, The Stragegy of Conflict 90 (1960)
But the huge tapestry that J. Pierpont Morgan himself decided to hang above the fireplace in his office was a majestic Triumph of Avarice. Not clear if he paid attention to the actual subject and meaning of it.
December 6, 2023 at 7:14 PM
But the huge tapestry that J. Pierpont Morgan himself decided to hang above the fireplace in his office was a majestic Triumph of Avarice. Not clear if he paid attention to the actual subject and meaning of it.
It’s the Middle Ages, so the only moral use of profit is charity. There is no state-led redistribution of course and no sense yet of the potential social benefits of the market.
December 6, 2023 at 7:13 PM
It’s the Middle Ages, so the only moral use of profit is charity. There is no state-led redistribution of course and no sense yet of the potential social benefits of the market.