April 21, 2025
Professor Harwell Wells of the Temple University Beasley School of Law presents the 2025 Friel-Scanlan Lecture entitled “Ethical Lives and Business Forms.”
Professor Harwell Wells, discusses his new paper, Shareholder Meetings and Freedom Rides, a story about the history of corporate and securities laws that begins in an unlikely place.
On September 21, Temple University hosted the panel “Rooney Rule Revisited: Race and Diversity in Sports and Corporate America” to discuss the history of the NFL’s Rooney Rule (requiring interviews for minorities for head coaching, GM and other top operations vacancies) and DEI in business more generally. American University professor N. Jeremi Duru and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Jim Rooney detailed the implementation of the Rooney Rule, historic barriers to progress and the principles necessary to improve diversity in NFL coaching—or in any industry.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has been actively enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) in 2016. As of August, covered entities and business associates (the organizations who are subject to HIPAA) have paid OCR more than $20 million to resolve allegations of