Joseph K. Leahy

ARTICLES

Zombies Attack Inadvertent Partnerships!–How Undead Precedents Killed By Uniform Statutes Still Roam the Reporters, 57 U. Rich. L. Rev. 381 (2023). current draft available at SSRN

Undead Dicta or Holdings? A Closer Look at Partnership Cases Stating that Subjective Intent Governs Inter Se, 21 U. N.H. L. Rev. 1 (2023), available at SSRN

An LLC is the Key: The False Dichotomy Between Inadvertent Partnerships and the Freedom of Contract, 52 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 243 (2020).[available at SSRN]

Intermediate Scrutiny for Corporate Political Contributions, 44 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1119 (2017) [available at SSRN].

A Decade After Disney: A Primer on Good and Bad Faith , 83 U. Cin. L. Rev. 859 (2015) [available at SSRN].

Corporate Political Contributions as Bad Faith , 86 U. Colo. L. Rev. 477 (2015) [available at SSRN ].

Are Corporate Super PAC Contributions Waste or Self-Dealing? A Closer Look , 79 Mo. L. Rev. 283 (2014) [available at SSRN ].

The Irrepressible Myths of BarChris, 37 Del. J. Corp. L. 411 (2012) [available at SSRN ].

What Due Dilegence Dilemma? Re-Envisioning Underwriters’ Continuous Due Dilegence After Worldcom , 30 Cardozo L. Rev. 2001 (2009). Reprinted in 2010 Securities L. Rev. §3:1 [available at SSRN ].

Laboratories of Democracy? Policy Innovation in Decentralized Governments , 58 Emory L.J. 1333 (2009) (with Brian Galle) [available at SSRN ].

PRESENTATIONS & PROCEEDINGS

Presenter, Is a Corporate Political Contribution a Business Judgment?a Corporate Political Contribution a Business Judgment? at Texas Legal Scholars Workshop, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX August, 2016.

Presenter, Is a Corporate Political Contribution a Business Judgment? National Business Law Scholars Conference, University of Chicago Law, June 2016.

Presented, Corporate Political Contributions as Ultra Vires at Texas Legal Scholars Workshop, University of Houston Law Center Houston, TX August, 2015.

Featured speaker for day four of the University of Houston Law Center’s Petrobras Legal Education Program, University of Houston Advanced Legal Studies Program, Houston, TX June, 2015.

Presented, Corporate Political Contributions as Ultra Vires at National Business Law Scholars Conference sponsored by Seton Hall Law School, Newark, NJ June 2015.

Presented, Intermediate Scrutiny for Corporate Political Contributions , Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Faculty Speaker Program, Houston, February 2015.

Presented, Intermediate Scrutiny for Corporate Political Contributions , National Business Law Scholars Conference, Loyola Law School, Chicago, June 2014.

Presented, Intermediate Scrutiny for Corporate Political Contributions , Southeastern Law Scholars Conference, Charleston Law School, October 2013.

Presented, Are Corporate Political Contributions Waste or Self-Dealing? A Closer Look , Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Faculty Speaker Program, Houston, April 2013.

Presented, The Irrepressible Myths of BarChris, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Faculty Speaker Program, Houston, October 2011.

Presented, The Irrepressible Myths of BarChris, Southeastern Law Scholars Conference, Charleston Law School, October 2011.