Glomming onto Jennifer's recent post on reforming the corporate law curriculum, I have been remiss in not sooner announcing Emory's new Center for Transactional Law and Practice.  We've hired Tina Stark, a nationally and internationally recognized expert on transactional skills instruction, to head up the Center.  The Center is hosting a conference next May on Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills:  The Basics and Beyond.  We are currently actively soliciting proposals for the conference.  The deadline for proposals is December 3, 2007.

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to December 21.

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I'm a little tardy in posting this, but Barbara Black, Director of the Corporate Law Center at the University of Cincinnati College of Law has issued the following Call for Papers on a very interesting topic.  Proposals are due May 31, 2007:

The Dysfunctional Board: Causes and Cures

March 14, 2008

Hewlett-Packard presents a cautionary tale of the damage caused by distrust and dissension within the boardroom. In fall 2006, Hewlett-Packard became embroiled in a headline-grabbing scandal and disgrace when the media reported that the board had authorized the use of possibly illegal tactics to determine the source of boardroom leaks. In the resulting publicity, the underlying problem – the breach of the directors’ obligation to maintain the confidentiality of corporate information – was often overlooked. More recently, Dow Chemical announced that it had fired two senior executives, one of whom is a director, for allegedly engaging in unauthorized talks to sell the company. In another well-publicized “civil war,” in 2005 Morgan Stanley replaced its CEO and substantially reshaped its board of directors. What confluence of events can cause governance at highly-regarded corporations to go awry? This symposium will explore the causes of dysfunctional boards and attempt to formulate some possible cures.

This is a call for papers. If you are interested in presenting a paper on any aspect of this topic, please submit a proposal to Barbara Black, Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Corporate Law Center, University of Cincinnati College of Law. Submissions should be no more than 5 single-spaced pages and should be sent by e-mail by May 31 to: barbara.black@uc.edu. Presenters will be reimbursed for reasonable travel expenses to attend the conference, and papers will be published in the symposium issue of the University of Cincinnati Law Review.

Confirmed Speakers: Lissa Lamkin Broome, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law Lawrence A. Cunningham, Academic Dean, Libby Scholar and Professor of Law & Business, Boston College Law School Tamar Frankel, Professor and Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, Boston University School of Law Kimberly D. Krawiec, Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law

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Next month, in August, we will be hosting the Conglomerate Junior Scholars Workshop for untenured law professors or people entering the law teaching market this fall. If you are sending out a scholarly article this fall on a topic that may be interesting to Conglomerate’s readers – such as corporate law, securities, contracts, tax, finance, trade, antitrust or law and economics – we would like to link to your paper and provide a forum for you to receive feedback on your paper before you publish it or present it at a job talk.

We know that many new faculty members do not have the opportunity to present papers at national conferences and find it challenging to get others to read their work. Hopefully, this workshop will facilitate that process. We will post links to several papers every week. Each post will include an abstract of your paper, some initial comments by us or an invited guest commentator, and your response to the comments. If you read the blog or know us personally, you know that we are generally the “if you can’t say something nice” people. So, we will be supportive of your work, but give constructive criticism as necessary. We will also prohibit anonymous comments in an effort to make sure only serious commenters participate.

If any of this sounds good to you, please email me (christine.hurt at marquette.edu) with your information and an abstract of your article by July 22, 2005. Likewise, contact me if you have any questions. We have no idea how many papers we will receive, so we’re not sure how many papers will be linked per week or how many weeks the workshop will be held; please be flexible. And most importantly, please pass this invitation to others that may be interested.

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Call for Papers -- Journal of Corporate Finance

I was forwarded a Call for Papers yesterday from the Journal of Corporate Finance for a Special Issue on Boundaries of SEC Regulation. The deadline is September 15, 2005, and more information is here.

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