The National Business Law Scholars Conference (NBLSC), formerly known as the Midwest Corporate Legal Scholars Conference, will be held on Wednesday, June 27th and Thursday, June 28th at University of Cincinnati College of Law in Cincinnati, Ohio.  This is the third annual meeting of the NBLSC, which has been renamed this year to reflect its national scope and the widely varied interests of its participants.  We welcome all on-topic submissions and will attempt to provide the opportunity for everyone to actively participate.  We will also attempt to assign a commentator for each paper presented.  Junior scholars are especially encouraged participate, and we will hold a special “how-to” panel for prospective business law scholars discussing the job market and transitioning into the legal academy.

To submit a presentation, email Professor Eric C. Chaffee at echaffee1@udayton.edu with an abstract or paper by April 15, 2012.  Please title the email “NBLSC Submission – {Name}”.  If you would like to attend, but not present, email Professor Chaffee with an email entitled “NBLSC Attendance”.  Please specify in your email whether you are willing to serve as a commentator or moderator.  A conference schedule will be circulated in early June.

Conference Organizers:

Barbara Black (University of Cincinnati)
Eric C. Chaffee (University of Dayton)
Steven M. Davidoff (The Ohio State University)

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Each year on the arrival day for the AALS Annual Meeting, the Faculty Section of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society holds a conference, and I am on the organizing committee. The conference includes a panel discussion on some topic of broad interest to the members of JRCLS (this year: "Current Frontiers in Religious Freedom Litigation"), works-in-progress presentations, a speaker (today we had Larry Echohawk, my BYU Law colleague who is currently serving as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior), and a Roundtable (which this year included Christine).

Like most conferences, this one offers a nice combination of learning and networking. Two particularly memorable moments for me: Larry Echohawk gave a moving account of his work with Indian tribes as Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, and one member of the Roundtable denigrated blogs as "a pox on the face of the legal academy" ... just before Christine stepped forward to respond to a question about the role of blogging in developing a national reputation.

During the works-in-progress session, Kaimi Wenger mentioned the word "confabulation," which is, essentially, a fabricated memory. It occurred to me that some fabricated memories could be quite wonderful ... even confabulous! 

Turns out that "confabulous" appears in the Urban Dictionary, though not for the meaning I suggested. If confabulation is "honest lying," then "confabulous" could be a very useful word. When someone tells a farfetched story and you don't want to accuse them of having an intent to deceive, you could say, "that is a confabulous story!" It might even be taken as a compliment.

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Please see the following announcement of a panel from Michael Malloy of McGeorge School of Law.  The timing is scheduled around the AALS Annual Meeting in January in Washington, D.C.:

On Wednesday, 4 January 2012, the Society of Socio-Economists will hold its Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (room assignments TBA). The preliminary program, Socio-Economics in the Academy and the Economy, includes a Roundtable discussion from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. entitled Permeable Economies, Not Globalized Economy: The Situation and Performance of Financial Services Markets. As moderator of the Roundtable, I am inviting you to participate, either as a presenter, commentator, or general participant. We hope that all interested views will contribute to the flow of discussion and the proceedings that will result. The discussion will launch from the following resolution:

Resolved, that the ongoing financial crisis results from the asymmetrical interactions of separate but permeable economies, rather than from the workings of a “globalized” economy.

Background Statement: Reflecting upon the initial series of collapses in capital and financial services markets in 2008, and the recent failure of MF Global, many commentators begin with the assumption that these phenomena are the natural result of a globalized economy. However, this view would appear to ignore the fact that financial services markets, in their regulatory structure and in much of their retail operation, remain intensely national or even local in character. Should it make a difference to our understanding of – and to the appropriate responses to – the ongoing crisis if it is the result of the interaction of permeable national economies?

Please RSVP by email to malloympm@aol.com and indicate whether you would like to be:  

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    • a presenter (with a five- to ten-minute statement of position),
    • a commentator (pre-assigned to a particular presentation), or
    • a general participant (speaking quod lib. during the general discussion).

Organization of the Roundtable in terms of selected presenters and commentators will be announced no later than 30 November 2011. Further details will be provided in advance of the Roundtable. We are looking forward to a vigorous discussion!

With best regards,

Michael P. Malloy

Distinguished Professor and Scholar

McGeorge School of Law University of the Pacific

malloympm@aol.com

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Today Columbia Law School hosts what looks to be a wonderful conference on the legacy of my friend, Bill Chandler.  Among other luminaries, Masters Steven Davidoff and Hillary Sale will be in attendance, as well as Ron Gilson, Mark Roe, Bernie Black, Kate Litvak, Lawrence Hamermesh, Lucian Bebchuk, Ed Rock, Jeffrey Gordon, and Marty Lipton.  And the entire Delaware Chancery Court.  Wow!

 Next week, look for our Masters to weigh in on the role of the Chancery Court, both looking back to Chandler's years and forward to what awaits corporate law under Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr.

And, if you can't make it to New York, here's a clip of Marty Lipton on the poison pill (h/t Haskell Murray):

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I'm off to Chicago for CELS this afternoon.  Tomorrow I'll serve as a discussant on this interesting paper by Mary-Hunter McDonnell and Brayden G. King.  Here's the abstract:

Does the market for independent directors always incentivize directors to act in the best interests of shareholders? In this paper, we suggest that the market fails in this regard when the interests of shareholders diverge from the interests of managers, such as when directors must oust an underperforming CEO. Given that managers continue to wield primary influence over the director-selection process, we expect that directors who pursue the interests of shareholders to the detriment of corporate managers will be punished by the market for directors. To test this, we employ a unique longitudinal database that tracks a decade in the careers of a cohort of independent directors. We find evidence that directors who oust a CEO suffer multi-faceted adverse consequences in the market. They are likely to win seats within fewer boards and the boards that do recruit them are likely to be significantly smaller and less reputable than those that recruit their peers. Ultimately, these findings support calls for more deliberate shareholder accountability mechanisms in the market for directors, such as governance provisions that allow for more direct shareholder involvement in director elections.

If you see me around the conference, please say hello.  I'll be jetting out after the last Friday panel to make it back to Athens in time for the Law School's Homecoming tailgate Saturday morning.  I hope to see some former students there and maybe, just maybe, a furry celebrity...

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A conference produced by our friends in Madison...

Who’s in the House?

The Changing Role and Nature of In-House and General Counsel

Wisconsin Law Review Symposium

November 18-19, 2011

Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

Program Chair: Jonathan C. Lipson, Foley & Lardner Professor of Law

This symposium will bring together leading scholars and attorneys to discuss the under-explored, but growing, role of in-house and corporate general counsel in the rapidly changing market for legal services. Keynote Speakers include Cynthia M. Fornelli (Center for Audit Quality Control), Gail A. Lione (Retired Executive VP & GC of Harley-Davidson, Inc.) and David Wilkins (Harvard Law School). Distinguished panelists and commenters include Daniel C. K. Chow (Ohio State University Moritz College of Law), Kathleen Cully (New York), Deborah A. DeMott (Duke University Law School), Michael Falk (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation), Lawrence A. Hamermesh (Widener University School of Law), Christoph Henkel (Mississippi College School of Law), R. Thomas Howell, Jr. (American Bar Association), Mike Koehler (Butler University), John J. Huber (FTI Consulting), Donald C. Langevoort (Georgetown University Law Center), Stephanie A. Lyons (Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.), Matthew Neco (Docstoc, Inc.), Thomas P. Newman (AIG, Inc.), Jerome D. Okarma (Johnson Controls), Larry E. Ribstein (University of Illinois College of Law), William H. Simon (Columbia Law School), Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University Law School), Andrew Brady Spalding (Chicago-Kent College of Law), Bill Stone (Outside GC), Eli Wald (University of Denver Sturm College of Law), Jolene Yee (E. and J. Gallo Winery), Joseph Yockey (University of Iowa College of Law), and others to be named. David S. Ruder (Northwestern University Law School) will participate as a Distinguished Symposium Fellow. This event has multiple cosponsors–please see the symposium website for registration & program information.

Wisconsin CLE Credit Approved: 12 Credits (including 5 EPR) – Illinois MCLE approval pending. Certificates will be provided for attorneys seeking CLE approval elsewhere.

Register online by 11/1/11: http://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/2011wlr/homepage.html

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Hamline University School of Law is hosting a symposium in St. Paul, Minnesota on Monday on "Reforming the Secondary Mortgage Markets."  Our own Christine Hurt will be presenting on executive compensation at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.  I'll be presenting on regulation of bank investments in mortgage backed securities and the transmission lines between real estate and bank crises.  Other speakers include a number of regular guest bloggers here at the Conglomerate and a number of my other favorite academics working in banking, mortgage markets, and fiancial regulation.  The keynote will be given by Gary Stern, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.  For details click here. 

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We have extended the deadline for the call for papers for the AALS Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services.  E-mail submissions to me at erik.gerding@colorado.edu or profgerding@gmail.com by September 20, 2011.  The full text of the call for papers is below. 

Call for Papers

Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Section

AALS Annual Meeting – January 2012

Rubber Hits Road: Implementing Dodd-Frank amid Reform Fatigue

        This program will take place one and a half years after the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law. The law left many of the details of financial reform to be filled in by regulators, raising the risk of capture. Some of the most important rule makings have begun in earnest; others have stalled as reform fatigue sets in. Meanwhile, reform efforts in Europe and international regulatory initiatives remain works-in-progress.

        What lessons can we draw from the implementation of Dodd-Frank so far? What have been the greatest achievements and the greatest disappointments as the legislative process has given way to the administrative? What devils have lain hidden in the details of the Federal Register? What aspects of reform have been largely forgotten? What does the path of financial reform say about legislative and regulatory process? What lessons can be drawn from the reform efforts in Europe and elsewhere? Does the focus on regulating institutions detract from a focus on regulating financial instruments, markets or economic functions and risks?

        More ominously, is the crisis truly over? Are we at grave risk of fighting the last war? Has reform missed the mark altogether? This meeting is part of a project to engage the legal academy in sustained theoretical and policy contributions to financial regulation. It also presents an opportunity to look at specific rulemakings in detail, as well as to address larger questions about the course of reform after laws are made.

Call for papers:

        Law teachers and other scholars are invited to submit manuscripts or abstracts dealing with any aspect of the foregoing topics. Junior faculty members are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts or abstracts. A review committee consisting of Section officers will select one or more papers or proposals and will invite the author(s) of each selected submission to present their work at the program session in Washington, D.C. in January 2012. Abstracts should be comprehensive enough to allow the review committee to meaningfully evaluate the aims and likely content of papers they propose. Please send manuscripts or abstracts to the Program Chair (Erik Gerding, University of Colorado) at erik.gerding@colorado.edu or profgerding@gmail.com no later than September 20, 2011. Please place the name and contact information of authors only on the cover page of submissions.

        Please forward this Call for Papers to anyone who might be interested.

Please note:  Faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible for presentation at the Call for Papers panel portion of our section program.  Foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to participate in this panel presentation; however, any submissions from individuals in these categories may be considered for other parts of the Section program at the Annual Meeting.

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Like Usha, I attended the SEALS conference, and have just recently returned.  I moderated the discussion session regarding Dodd-Frank's anniversary.  Although it included a roundtable-like discussion with many conference attendees such as Usha and Fred Tung, the discussion group began with comments from a group of roundtable participants who gave their thoughts on Dodd-Frank as it enters its second year.  The roundtable participants were Robert Brown, Ann Graham, Michael Guttentag, Joan Heminway, Renee Jones, Wulf Kaal, Jena Martin Amerson, Minor Myers, Dale Oesterle, James Park, Jeff Schwartz, Omari Simmons, Maurice Stucke, and Constance Wagner.  As you can imagine, the participants offered a wide range of views covering a variety of topics from systemic risk and contingent capital to executive compensation.  However, I thought I would highlight some common themes/questions that emerged from the participants and the related discussion.

1.  Is Dodd-Frank too big to work?  Dodd-Frank, with its 2,000 plus pages, sought to address and respond to a variety of different issues and problems, and there were a number of comments suggesting that Dodd-Frank had fallen short in many areas.  Of course, those comments could have just been acknowledging the reality that Dodd-Frank may have taken on more than it could successfully achieve. 

2. Did Dodd-Frank miss an opportunity to address the short-comings of our disclosure system?  Many people noted that our disclosure system may be out-dated, and thus questioned the purpose and utility of disclosure as well as those provisions in Dodd-Frank that relied on disclosure.  There was some debate about whether disclosure was useful and whether disclosure could be harmful.  While we did not reach any agreement on these questions, there was some agreement that disclosure could trigger unintended consequences and as a result, Dodd-Frank's reliance on disclosure could prove problematic.  

3. Does Dodd-Frank appropriately consider the way in which our markets and exchanges work?  Most who considered this question answered it in the negative.  That is, notwithstanding the attempt to take financial innovation and technology into account, provisions in Dodd-Frank nevertheless reflect a failure to fully appreciate the workings of the markets and exchanges--and this failure could impact the Act's ability to be effective.

4.    What will be the impact of Dodd-Frank's executive compensation provisions?  It was noted that there were only four provisions in Dodd-Frank that focused specifically on executive compensation, and yet the issue has captured the attention of regulators, corporations, and the public.  Some thought that while the provisions were not earth-shattering, they might have an impact.  Others expressed concern that the provisions were mainly symbolic, and thus would have no impact on outsized compensation packages or corporate behavior.  Still others opined that the provisions could have unintended and negative consequences, while some worried that the focus on executive compensation did and would continue to distract from provisions that might actually have a positive impact on our financial system.  In the end, it was probably the case that we also spent too much time on executive compensation, particularly in light of the many other reforms covered by Dodd-Frank.

5. What are the consequences of shifting power to shareholders?  Many have questioned those provisions of Dodd-Frank such as say on pay and proxy access that appear to shift power away from corporate managers and into the hands of shareholders.  Participants expressed a similar concern about that shift and its repercussions for corporate governance.

6.  Does Dodd-Frank effectively grapple with issues pertaining to risk?  Obviously this could take up pages. . .

7.  Does Dodd-Frank reflect a new willingness to rely on international models and experiences?  Dodd-Frank, through provisions like say on pay and its directive to study contingent capital, does rely to some extent on international models and experiences, which led to a discussion about whether the Act reflects a greater openness to such reliance.

8.  What is and should be the role of courts?  That is, will courts facilitate or impede the implementation of Dodd-Frank?  In light of the recent proxy access decision, as well as the 11th Circuit's decision suggesting that Dodd-Frank did not reflect any change in federal preemption doctrine, some expressed concern that courts may be too willing to confirm/revert back to, the status quo, or otherwise too willing to suggest that Dodd-Frank does not impact core principles. 

9.  Did Dodd-Frank place too much responsibility in the hands of regulators?  There was considerable discussion about Dodd-Frank's reliance on regulators and the extent to which such reliance was prudent, particularly in light of the fact that implementation by regulators raises its own issues such as agency capture, and competency and resource concerns.  It was noted that, as of July 22, 2011, some 80% of Dodd-Frank rulemaking deadlines have been missed, suggesting that (for whatever reasons), regulators have found it difficult to comply with the rulemaking mandates under Dodd-Frank.  What does that say about the effectiveness of the Act?

As this suggests, we covered a lot of different topics--and could have covered many more.  And I am sure I have not done justice to all of the issues that were discussed.  Thankfully, many of the participants are planning to publish papers on the issues they discussed, and hence you will be able to see those issues more fully vetted, and in their own words. . .

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If you're a procrastinator, you'll be pleased to know that the deadline to submit to the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) has been extended until next Tuesday.  Happy submitting!

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For anyone in need of an update on the state of financial reform post-Dodd-Frank, American’s new Summer Institute on Law & Government is running a program this week and next focusing on regulation featuring, among others, David Vladeck (and here) on CFPB, Michael Silva on the Federal Reserve, Linda Chatman Thomsen on securities law reform, John Collins on banking law reform, and Michael Greenberger on derivatives. Ken Feinberg is keynoting.  Lots of great non-financial content as well. You can download the schedule by clicking here.

All are welcome. Please contact Stephen Wermiel at swermiel@wcl.american.edu (202-274-4263) to register, and, if you are a law teacher, student, or similar, to inquire about special arrangements.

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Call for Papers

Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Section

AALS Annual Meeting – January 2012

Rubber Hits Road: Implementing Dodd-Frank amid Reform Fatigue

        This program will take place one and a half years after the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law. The law left many of the details of financial reform to be filled in by regulators, raising the risk of capture. Some of the most important rule makings have begun in earnest; others have stalled as reform fatigue sets in. Meanwhile, reform efforts in Europe and international regulatory initiatives remain works-in-progress.

        What lessons can we draw from the implementation of Dodd-Frank so far? What have been the greatest achievements and the greatest disappointments as the legislative process has given way to the administrative? What devils have lain hidden in the details of the Federal Register? What aspects of reform have been largely forgotten? What does the path of financial reform say about legislative and regulatory process? What lessons can be drawn from the reform efforts in Europe and elsewhere? Does the focus on regulating institutions detract from a focus on regulating financial instruments, markets or economic functions and risks?

        More ominously, is the crisis truly over? Are we at grave risk of fighting the last war? Has reform missed the mark altogether? This meeting is part of a project to engage the legal academy in sustained theoretical and policy contributions to financial regulation. It also presents an opportunity to look at specific rulemakings in detail, as well as to address larger questions about the course of reform after laws are made.

Call for papers:

        Law teachers and other scholars are invited to submit manuscripts or abstracts dealing with any aspect of the foregoing topics. Junior faculty members are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts or abstracts. A review committee consisting of Section officers will select one or more papers or proposals and will invite the author(s) of each selected submission to present their work at the program session in Washington, D.C. in January 2012. Abstracts should be comprehensive enough to allow the review committee to meaningfully evaluate the aims and likely content of papers they propose. Please send manuscripts or abstracts to the Program Chair (Erik Gerding, University of Colorado) at profgerding@gmail.com no later than August 30, 2011. Please place the name and contact information of authors only on the cover page of submissions.

        Please forward this Call for Papers to anyone who might be interested.

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If you are at Law & Society this Friday and Saturday, come to the mini-conference on Entrepreneuship & Law that Brian Broughman (Indiana - Maurer School of Law) and our own Gordon Smith (BYU) have organized.  Here is the line up:

Friday, June 3, 2011

8:15 am to 10:00 am Regulating Entrepreneurs 2122 (Chair: Brian Broughman)

• Mira Ganor (Texas), The Power to Issue Stock
• Erik Gerding (New Mexico), Shadow Banking, Financial Innovation, and Regulatory Arbitrage
• Michelle Harner (Maryland), Mitigating Financial Risk for Entrepreneurs
• Poonam Puri (Toronto), The Regulatory Burden of Corporate Law
• Discussants: Kristin Johnson (Seton Hall) & Sarah Lawsky (UC Irvine)

12:30 pm to 2:15 pm Governance Structure of Entrepreneurial Firms 2322 (Chair: Brian Broughman) 

• Brian Broughman (with (Jesse Fried & Darian Ibrahim), Delaware Law as Lingua Franca: Evidence from VC-Backed Startups

• George Geis (Virginia), Organizational Contracting and Third Party Rights
• Alicia Robb (Kauffman Foundation), Entrepreneurial Finance and Performance: A Transaction Cost Economics Approach
• Discussant: Bobby Bartlett (UC Berkeley) 

Saturday, June 4, 2011

8:15 am to 10:00 am Law, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation 3116 (Chair: Gordon Smith)

• Mike Burstein (Harvard), Exchanging Information without Intellectual Property

• Sean O’Connor (Univ. of Washington), Transforming Professional Services to Build Regional Innovation Ecosystems
• Peter Lee (UC Davis), The Accession Insight and Patent Infringement Remedies
• Karl Okamoto (Drexel), Law and Entrepreneurship: An Assessment Approach

4:30 pm to 6:15 pm Global Entrepreneurship 3519 (Chair: Gordon Smith)

• Afra Afsharipour (University of California, Davis), US Private Equity Investments in India

• Sofia Johan (York Univ.)(with April Knil and Nathan Mauck), Determinants of Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in Private Equity
• Gordon Smith, Stability and Adaptability

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I'm in San Francisco for 3 weeks--along with Todd Henderson, Amanda Rose, and Chris Brummer. We're inaugural Roger J. Traynor Summer Professors at Hastings.  Through the generous support of the Roger Traynor Summer Professorship Fund, we're here to participate in daily workshops with Hastings and other Bay Area corporate and tax professors.  And the Glom has graciously agreed to host our blog coverage of the workshops.  So stay tuned in the coming weeks for blog coverage from me, Todd, Amanda, and Chris.

Here's the first week's schedule:

5/31:
Heather Field (Hastings).  
Experiential Learning in a Lecture Class: Exposing Students to the Skill of Giving Useful Tax Advice.

6/1:
Fred Tung (Boston University).
Bank CEOs, Inside Debt Compensation, and the Global Financial Crisis. 

6/2:
Bobby Bartlett (Boalt). 
Making Banks Transparent. 

Future workshops include:

6/6:  Susan Morse (Hastings).

6/7:  Amanda Rose (Vandy).
Policing Public Companies: The Role of State Securities Regulators. 

6/8:  Eric Talley (Boalt).

6/9:  Abe Cable (Hastings,beginning July '11).

6/13:  Mike Klausner (Stanford).

6/14:  Chris Brummer (Georgetown).

6/15:  Todd Henderson (Chicago).

6/16:  John Crawford (Hastings, beginning July '11).

Hastings' focus on corporate law this summer is part of its effort to increase its corporate and business profile.  As noted above, new hires Abe Cable and John Crawford will present in the workshop series, as well as recently hired Susie Morse and recently tenured Heather Field in corporate tax.  This is in addition to Hastings' senior business faculty, including Bill Wang (insider trading) and Fred Lambert (corporate governance).

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Our frequent guest, Anna Gelpern, and the editors of the new American University Business Law Review have put together a great conference on financial reform this coming Friday, April 8th in the nation’s capital. The conference theme is “Law, Finance, and Legitimacy after Financial Reform.”

You can register here.

Here are some of the highlights. The lunch will feature as keynote speaker Brooksley Born, former Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

The conference will also feature three scholarly panels:

Panel #1 – REGULATION OF FINANCE: Presentations will focus on Dodd-Frank’s living will provisions, transparency in financial regulation, and a retrospective look at the Panic of 1873.

Presenters: Adam Feibelman (Tulane University), Caroline Bradley (University of Miami), Arthur Wilmarth (George Washington University), Erik Gerding (University of New Mexico) Panelists: Melissa Jacoby (University of North Carolina), Mehrsa Baradaran (Brigham Young University), Daniel Schwarcz (University of Minnesota)

Panel #2 – FINANCIAL REGULATION AND LEGITIMACY: Presentations will focus on loopholes in legislation, regulation of information quality, important truths of Too Big To Fail, and the regulation of risk management strategies.

Presenters: Brett McDonnell (University of Minnesota), Richard Painter and Claire Hill (University of Minnesota), Onnig Dombalagian (Tulane University), Kristin Johnson (Seton Hall University) Panelists: Jose Gabilondo (Florida International University), Peter Conti-Brown (Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University), Lisa Fairfax (George Washington University)

Panel #3 – FINANCIAL REFORM POLICY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Panelists: Eric Pan (Cardozo University, Securities and Exchange Commission), Saule Omarova (University of North Carolina), Heidi Schooner (Catholic University), Chris Brummer (Georgetown University).

I'm looking forward to hearing the presentations.  I'll also be presenting on the legal history of the Crisis of 1873 in Germany, Austria, and the United States.  If you are there, come say hello.  We'll have great fun saying Gruenderboom and Gruenderkrach!

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