Scholarly Events

Spring 2010

Date Time Event/Program Presenter/Title Details

01/21/10 12:00pm Mergers and Acquisitions: Agency Problem, not Solution Cindy Williams Faculty Lounge

01/28/10 12:00pm Doctrinal Displacement at the Federal Circuit David Schwartz Faculty Lounge

02/04/10 12:00pm Can CoCo Bonds Break the “Too Big to Fail” Cycle of Bank Regulation? Rob Beard Faculty Lounge

02/11/10 12:00pm Jonathan Masur Faculty Lounge

02/18/10 12:00pm The Second Person Standpoint and the Law Rob Kar Faculty Lounge


02/22/10-
02/23/10		 8:00am ASIL Midwest Conference

02/24/10 4:00pm David C. Baum Memorial Lecture on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights:

“The Power of
Persuasion Before and
Within the Supreme
Court of the United
States: Reflections on the
National Environmental
Policy Act’s Zero for
Sixteen Record at the
High Court”

 Richard J.
Lazarus
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Supreme Court Institute
Georgetown University Law School		 Auditorium

02/25/10 12:00pm They Don't Disregard the Constitution's Clear Text, Do They? Stephen Siegel, DePaul U. Law Faculty Lounge
03/04/10 12:00pm The Syndrome of the Common Law Nuno Garoupa Faculty Lounge

03/09/10 12:00pm James Buchanan as Savior? Judical Power, Political Fragmentation, and the Failed 1831 Repeal of Section 25 Mark Graber, Univ. of Maryland Law Faculty Lounge

03/18/10 12:00pm David Hyman Faculty Lounge

03/29/10 12:00pm Work Wives Laura Rosenbury, Wash U. St. Louis Faculty Lounge

04/08/10 12:00pm Legal Innocence Emily Hughes, Wash U. St. Louis Faculty Lounge

04/22/10 12:00pm The Law of Empire: Anti-Imperialism and Imperialist State Formation During the Philippine-American War Erin Murphy Anna Marshall Faculty Lounge

04/29/10 12:00pm Dan Kelly, Notre Dame Law Faculty Lounge

Fall 2009

Date Time Event/Program Presenter/Title Details

09/08/09 4:30pm Debunking the Corporate Fiduciary Myth Professor Kelli Alces Room H
09/21/09 4:30pm Investment Indiscipline:  A Behavioral Approach to Mutual Fund Jurisprudence William A. Birdthistle Room H
10/01/09 12:00 The Death of Big Law Larry Ribstein Faculty Lounge
10/05/09 4:30pm Taming or Protecting the Modern Corporation?
Shareholder Stakeholder
Debates in a Comparative Light 		Martin Gelter Room H
10/06/09 4:30pm IPO Underpricing, Disclosure, and Litigation Risk James Spindler Room H
10/08/09 3:00 2009 Vacketta Lecture: The Perils and Promise of the New World Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen Auditorium
10/12/09 4:30pm Sharehold Opportunism in a World of Risky Debt Richard Squire Room H
10/13/09 4:30pm Charter Switching and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Office of Thrift Supervision David Zaring Room H
10/15/09 12:00pm What Crimes are Made Of:  Toward a Taxonomy of Objective Elements Eric Johnson Faculty Lounge
10/20/09 4:30pm Disclosure 2.0: Leveraging Technology to Address  Complexity and Information Failures in the Financial Crisis Eric Gerding Room H
10/22/09 12:00pm Less Forgiven – Race and Chapter 13 Dov Cohen & Robert Lawless Faculty Lounge
10/23/09 12:00pm Private Negotiations in Governance Joe Yockey Faculty Lounge
10/29/09 12:00pm Toward a Contract Theory of ERISA Remedies Sean Anderson Faculty Lounge
11/05/09 12:00pm Impersonal Jurisdiction    Allan Erbsen Faculty Lounge
11/09/09 4:30pm Valid Inference in Single-Firm, Single-Event Studies Jonathan Klick Room H
11/12/09 12:00pm Equal Access and the Right to Marry Deborah Widiss Faculty Lounge
11/16/09 4:30pm Entity and Identity Usha Rodrigues Room H
12/03/09 12:00pm

An Economic Evaluation of the Renewable Fuel
Standard (RFS) Biofuel
Program:  An Industrial
Policy Approach

 Jay Kesan Faculty Lounge

Spring 2009

Date Time Event/Program Presenter/Title Details

01/15/09 12:00pm Jurisdictional Competition for Limited Liability Companies Larry Ribstein Faculty Lounge
01/26/09 12:00pm The Invisible Women: Competition and Culpability in Reproductive Health Jurisprudence Beth Burkstrand-Reid Faculty Lounge
3/09/09 12:30pm Ann F. Baum Memorial Elder Law Lecture Olivia S. Mitchell Auditorium
3/12/09 12:30pm Why Lawyers Matter Conference
Video Part 1
Video Part 2
Video Part 3
Video Part 4		 Multiple, click here for full list Auditorium
3/17/09 4:00pm Paul M. Van Arsdell, Jr. Lecture: Can a Bad Person be a Good Judge? Judge Patrick J. Schiltz Auditorium
4/21/09 4:00pm The Restrictive Ethos in Civil Procedure Professor A. Benjamin Spencer Faculty Lounge
4/23/09 12:00pm Dean Smith Investiture Dean Bruce Smith Auditorium
4/23/09-4/24/09 12:00pm Beyond Wall Street: The Interplay Among Film, Business and the Law
Audio Part 1
Audio Part 2
Audio Part 3
Audio Part 4

Larry Ribstein Faculty Lounge
5/11/09 N/A Fifth Annual Courtwatching Report Steve Beckett, C.K. Gunsalus State Attorney's Office
5/16/09 12:30pm-2:00pm 2009 Convocation
Bruce Smith Remarks
Congressman Don Manzullo Remarks
Secretary Ray LaHood Remarks		 Various Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Fall 2008

Date Time Event/Program Presenter/Title Details

09/08/08 3:00-4:50pm Building the Next Silicon Valley: The Role of Angel
Investors in Economic Development		 Darian Ibrahim Room H
09/15/08 3:00-4:50pm Creditors and the New Corporate Governance Fred Tung Room H
09/22/08 3:00-4:50pm The Law and Economics of Hedge Funds: Financial Innovation and Investor Protection Houman Shadab Room H
09/23/08 3:00-4:50pm Corporate Voting Robert Thompson Room H
10/03/08 12:00pm Deciding Against Conciliation: The Nineteenth-Century Rejection of a European
Transplant and the Rise of a Distinctively American Ideal of Adversarial Adjudication		 Amalia Kessler Faculty Lounge
10/09/08 3:00-4:00pm 2008 Vacketta Lecture: Homeland Security: Then and Now Admiral James Loy Auditorium
10/10/08 12:30-4:00pm America's Mortgage Crisis: Looking Out for your Client A CLE course presented by ATG and the College of Law

Video: (Part I) (Part II)

Judge Thomas Perkins; Professor Christine Hurt; Ralph Schumann Auditorium
10/13/08 3:00-4:50pm The Paulson Report Reconsidered – How to Fix
Securities Litigation by Converting Class Actions into Issuer Actions		 Richard Booth Room H
10/16/08   Explaining Massive Resistance Christopher Schmidt Faculty Lounge
10/20/08 3:00-4:50pm Corporate Governance in China Donald Clarke Room H
10/22/08 4:00pm David C. Baum Lecture on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Professor Barbara Woodhouse Auditorium
10/27/08 3:00-4:50pm Sovereigns as Shareholders Paul Rose Room H
11/03/08 3:00-4:50pm Failure of Private Equity Steven Davidoff Room H
11/04/08 3:00-4:50pm The Uses and Abuses of Rule 10b5-1 Todd Henderson Room H

11/10/08

3:00-4:50pm

Post‐American Securities Regulation

Chris Brummer

Room H
11/11/08 3:00-4:50pm Film: Wall Street   Room H
11/17/08 3:00-4:50pm Practitioner's Practice on Theory Thomas Rutledge Room H
12/2/08 12:00pm

Residential Protectionism and the
Legal Mythology of Home

 Stephanie Stern Faculty Lounge