The University of Illinois College of Law has announced the creation of a new program in corporate and business law that will allow faculty members to focus research and teaching in this area of expertise and to create conferences, lectures and a speakers colloquium.

The newly-created Illinois Program in Law and Business Policy, co-coordinated by Professors Larry Ribstein and Christine Hurt, the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair, includes an impressive array of University of Illinois faculty members including Ribstein, Amitai Aviram, Ralph Brubaker, William Davey, Robert Lawless, Andrew Morriss, Charles Tabb, Nicola Sharpe, Joe Yockey, Paul Stancil, and Cynthia Williams.

The Illinois Program in Law and Business Policy also proposes to host public lectures in Chicago and on the UI campus, develop conferences and support other business related activities. The Program will highlight various areas of expertise within the College of Law, including empirical work, law and economics, unincorporated and closely held firms, securities markets, entrepreneurship, the role of social norms, derivatives and other complex financial instruments, corporate social responsibility, bankruptcy, and European and other international law.

Continuing a program started in the fall of 2006, the Illinois Program on Business Law and Policy, in conjunction with my class in Problems in Corporate Law, will present a colloquium of guest speakers this semester. The following speakers will present papers on cutting edge issues in business law and policy to students and faculty. All talks are in Room H, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. College of Law faculty and students can obtain papers that are not posted on this website from the intranet course page for this course:
https://www.law.uiuc.edu/intranet/courses/pages/fa09/794a/.
Others can obtain these papers by emailing Sally Cook, scook@illinois.edu. Cookies and soft drinks will be served. I hope you can join us. Let me know if you need more information.

-Larry Ribstein, College of Law, ribstein@illinois.edu.

FALL 2009

September 8	Debunking the Corporate Fiduciary Myth Speaker: Kelli Alces, Florida State/Iowa.
September 21	Investment Indiscipline: A Behavioral Approach to Mutual Fund Jurisprudence Speaker: William Birdthistle, Chicago Kent.
October 5	Taming or Protecting the Modern Corporation? Historical Debates about Corporate Pluralism in a Comparative Light Speaker: Martin Gelter, Fordham.
October 6	IPO Underpricing, Disclosure and Litigation Risk. Speaker: James Spindler, USC.
October 12	Shareholder Opportunism in a World of Risky Debt Speaker: Richard Squire, Fordham.
October 13	Charter Switching and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Office of Thrift Supervision Speaker: David Zaring, Wharton.
October 20	Disclosure 2.0: Leveraging Technology to Address Complexity and Information Failures in the Financial Crisis Speaker: Erik Gerding, New Mexico.
October 26	TBD. Speaker: Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania.
November 3	Anand & Iacobucci, An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts. Speaker: Edward Iacobucci, Toronto.
November 9	Valid Inference in Single-Firm, Single-Event Studies Speaker: Jon Klick, University of Pennsylvania.
November 10	Imagining Wall Street Speaker: Larry Ribstein , University of Illinois
November 16	TBD Speaker: Usha Rodrigues, Georgia.

Spring 2009

April 23-23

Larry Ribstein , University of Illinois

Beyond Wall Street: The Interplay Among Film, Business and the Law.

Fall 2008

September 8	Darian Ibrahim, Wisconsin Building the Next Silicon Valley: The Role of Angel Investors in Economic Development
September 15	Fred Tung, Emory Creditors and the New Corporate Governance
September 22	Houman Shadab, Mercatus Center, George Mason The Law and Economics of Hedge Funds: Financial Innovation and Investor Protection
September 23	Robert Thompson, Vanderbilt Corporate Voting
October 13	Richard Booth, Villanova The Paulson Report Reconsidered – How to Fix Securities Litigation by Converting Class Actions into Issuer Actions
October 20	Donald Clarke, GW and UCLA Corporate Governance in China
October 27	Paul Rose, Ohio State Sovereigns as Shareholders
November 3	Steven Davidoff, Connecticut and Ohio State Failure of Private Equity
November 4	Todd Henderson, University of Chicago The Uses and Abuses of Rule 10b5-1
November 10	Chris Brummer, Vanderbilt Post‐American Securities Regulation
November 11	Film: Wall Street
November 17	Thomas Rutledge, Stoll, Keenan, Louisville Practitioner’s perspective on theory

Fall 2007

Ocotober 19

Chancellor William B. Chandler III Delaware Court of Chancery

"Mystery of Delaware Law's Success" (Video)
Program

SPRING 2007

Wednesday, 2/07 12:20 p.m. Faculty Lounge	Steven Hetcher Professor of Law Vanderbilt University View Paper: "The Half-Fairness of Google's Plan to Make the World's Collection of Books Searchable"
Tuesday, 3/13 12:20 p.m. Faculty Lounge	Brett Freudenberg Senior Lecturer Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics Griffith University
Wednesday, 3/28 12:20 p.m. Faculty Lounge	Sean Griffith Associate Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law View Paper: "Predicting Corporate Governance Risk: Evidence from the Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurance Market" View Paper: "The Missing Monitor in Corporate Governance: The Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurer"
Wednesday, 4/11 12:20 p.m. Faculty Lounge	Dan Kahan Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law Yale Law School View Paper: "Affect, Values, and Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation"
Wednesday, 4/18 12:20 p.m. Faculty Lounge	Theresa Gabaldon Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law The George Washington University Law School View Paper: "In Context: A Feminist Project Examining the Role of Women in Corporate and Securities Law"

Fall 2006

Tuesday, 8/29	Olufumilayo Arewa Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Tuesday, 9/5	Roberta Romano — Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Tuesday, 9/12	Michael Weisbach — The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds Paper (pdf), Presentation (ppt), and Workshop (wma) Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Distinguished Chair in Corporate Finance and Professor of Finance, UIUC College of Business
Monday, 9/18	Lawrence Cunningham — "Interpreting The "Principles-Based" Rhetoric In Corporate Law, Securities Regulation and Accounting" Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law and Business and Libby Scholar, Boston College
Tuesday, 9/26	Paul Vaaler "Legal System and Rule of Law Effects on US Cross-Listing to Bond by Emerging Market Firms" Paper (pdf), Presentation (ppt), Workshop (wma) Associate Professor of Business Administration, UIUC College of Business
Tuesday, 10/10	Robert Sitkoff — "Agency Costs, Corporate Control, and Charitable Trusts: Evidence From Hershey's Kiss-Off" Workshop (requires login) Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Tuesday, 10/17	Kim Krawiec Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
Monday, 10/23	D. Gordon Smith "Questions About Contracts" Paper (pdf), Presentation (wma) Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
Tuesday, 10/24	James Cox Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, Duke University Law School
Monday, 11/6	Charles Elson Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair, John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Lerner College of Business and Finance, University of Delaware "Hewlett Packard and the Failure of Regulatory Corporate Ethics Enforcement" Paper (pdf) Presentation (wma)
Tuesday, 11/7	Mitu Gulati Professor of Law, Duke University Law School
Monday, 11/13	Lawrence Mitchell Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law, George Washington University Law School Chapter 6: "From Trusts Emergent From Regulating Trusts to Regulating Securities" (pdf) Chapter 7: "The End of the Progressive Corporation" (pdf) Presentation (wma)
Tuesday, 11/14	Mark Ramseyer Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School Presentation (wma)