The annual Law and Society meeting is coming up, July 6-9 in Baltimore.  Navigating the massive events calendar can be a bit intimidating, so here's a rundown of corporate law panels.  Hope to see you there.

Thursday, July 6.

8:15-10:00
Current Issues in Corporate and Securities Law--Part I
Jayne W. Barnard, Securities Law Recidivists:  Smart, Charismatic, Adaptable Men (Mostly)
Erica Beecher-Monas, Diversity in the Boardroom:  Have We Come a Long Way, Baby?

12:30-2:15
Author Meets Reader--Tamar Frankel, Trust and Honesty:  America's Business Culture at a Crossroad.

2:30-4:15
New Questions about Contracts
Vic Fleisher, The Mastercard IPO
Ron Mann, Making Electronic Contracts Enforceable (and Unenforceable)
Rachelle Sampson, Formal Contracts in the Presence of Relational Enforcement Mechanisms:  Evidence from Technology Development Projects
Gordon Smith, New Questions about Contracts:  Empirical Studies of Contract Terms

Friday, July 7.

10:15-12:00
New Looks at Corporate Regulation and Corporate Governance
Tamar Frankel, Trust, Honesty, and Business Culture in America
Peter Huang, Happiness and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation
Joanna Shepherd, Fred Tung, and Albert Yoon, Cross-Monitoring and Corporate Governance

10:15-12:00
Current Issues in Corporate and Securities Law--Part II
Joan MacLeod Heminway, Sex, Trust, and Corporate Boards
Christine Hurt, Cleansing, Catharsis, and Restoring Confidence:  The Corporate Crime Lottery
Margaret Sachs, Materiality and Social Change

Saturday, July 8.

10:15-12:00
Roundtable--Course on the Business Firm as Social Entity
James Fanto, John Conley, Larry Solan, Tom Tyler.
This Roundtable will present a course on the Business Firm as Social Entity (the "Course"). The goal of the Course is to produce a syllabus, readings and materials from the social sciences, finance and the law that could be used by faculty in different educational settings, including psychology departments, business schools and schools of public affairs, as well as law schools.

2:30-4:15
Current Issues in Corporate and Securities Law--Part III
Claire Moore Dickerson, Business in the Shadow of the Law:  Parasols and Other Self-Help
Dimity Anne Kingsford Smith, How Do Online Investors Seek Information and What Does This Mean for Regulation?
Therese Maynard, Corporate Law Practicum:  Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

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