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Subscribe for periodic posts on firms, cities, and transportation.

Who am I?

I’m a Professor of Law and the Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. (This is a purely personal Substack, however.)

What’s this about?

I teach and write about cities (especially transportation) and corporate and securities law. You can find my scholarship here. While there is little doctrinal overlap between these areas, certain shared tradeoffs and policy considerations predominate—efficiency vs. voice, maximizing along individual vs. shared dimensions, the promises and perils of scale, duties to and the allocation of control among different internal and external stakeholders, the proper role of regulation, federalism, and so on.

Why Substack?

I’ve learned so much from blogs over the years. Blogs were replaced by social media, especially Twitter (a guilty pleasure; follow me at @greg_shill), with well known downsides. To recover some of what’s been lost, I’m trying out a newsletter. As