Start-Up Sensations: UCLA Law student-led clean energy firm Mote took top honors and $70,000 in the third annual Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler Prize for New Entrepreneurs. The competition, pairing law students with innovators from other UCLA disciplines and beyond, offers the largest entrepreneurship award associated with any law school in the country.

Talking Silicon Beach: In March, LMI hosted its first Silicon Beach Conference, examining the legal and policy issues faced by the more than 500 startups, incubators and accelerators in L.A.’s burgeoning tech economy.

Professor Iman Anabtawi's Predatory Management Buyouts explains the issues that arise when management, partnering with a financing source such as a private equity firm, seeks to buy out public shareholders. 

Steven A. Bank, the Paul Hastings Professor of Business Law at UCLA School of Law, explores the question of When Did Tax Avoidance Become Respectable? Once considered unpatriotic by the American public, tax avoidance is now considered an acceptable and even expected strategy.

Professor Daniel J. Bussel’s Doing Equity in Bankruptcy addresses equitable remedies’ tendency to impair fundamental bankruptcy policies favoring equal treatment of creditors, debtor fresh start and reorganization.

Lynn M. LoPucki, the Security Pacific Bank Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, in his article, Algorithmic Entities, identified a possible doomsday scenario as a result of corporate law’s failure to stay ahead of technological changes.

Eric M. Zolt, the Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor Jason Oh consider Wealth Tax Add-Ons: An Alternative to Comprehensive Wealth Taxes that have been proposed by policymakers who are attempting to address income and wealth inequalities.

In their paper, professors Zolt and Oh propose a different set of instruments that countries can employ and avoid some of the disadvantages of a comprehensive wealth tax.