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Severing ties to its nonprofit owner would be far more easily said than done. rob dobi/Moment via Getty Images

November 20, 2024

Legal complications await if OpenAI tries to shake off control by the nonprofit that owns the rapidly growing tech company

Jill Horwitz, University of California, Los Angeles; Ellen P. Aprill, Loyola Law School Los Angeles, and Rose Chan Loui, University of California, Los Angeles

When for-profit companies are spun out of nonprofits, there is no easy way out of the legal consequences.

Billionaire investor and Harvard alum Bill Ackman has voiced his objections to the school’s current president. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

December 20, 2023

What do universities owe their big donors? Less than you might think, explain 2 nonprofit law experts

Ellen P. Aprill, Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Jill Horwitz, University of California, Los Angeles

Threats from disappointed donors over the language used during campus protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict have become angrier and more public than in the past.

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