Berle III: Theory of the Firm
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Friday, January 13, 2012
7:30am Breakfast
8:00am Welcome
Session A
8:05am
Kelli Alces, Loula Fuller and Dan Meyers Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Working Title-Acknowledging the Public Firm (45 minutes)
8:50am
Matthew Bodie, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, St. Louis University School of Law
Working Title-Corporation as Firm: A New Institutional Economics Approach to Corporate Law (45 minutes)
9:35am
Teppo Felin, Associate Professor & Lee Perry Fellow, Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University
Working Title-Theory of the Firm, the Innovation Commons and the Future of Production: Do Boundaries Still Matter? (45 minutes)
10:20am Break
Session B
10:30am
David Yosifon, Assistant Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
Working Title-Locked-In: Shareholders, Consumers, and Theories of the Firm (45 minutes)
11:15am
Richard Marens, Professor, College of Business Administration, California State University, Sacramento, Publications
Working Title-"We Don't Need You Any More": Corporate Social Responsibilities, Executive Class Interests, and the Solving of Mizruchi's and Hirschman's Paradox (45 minutes)
12:00pm Lunch (Please take a few minutes to stretch, and then join us back in the meeting room.)
Session C
1:00pm
Peer Zumbansen, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Economic Governance and Legal Theory, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Working Title-Rethinking the Contractual Nature of the Firm: Contract Governance in Corporate Law (45 minutes)
1:45pm
David Westbrook, Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
Working Title-A Shallow Harbor and a Cold Horizon: the Deceptive Promise of Agency Law for the Theory of the Firm (45 minutes)
2:30pm Break
Session D
2:45pm
Marina Welker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
Working Title-Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the Corporation (45 minutes)
3:30pm
Ugo Pagano, Professor of Economic Policy, University of Siena and Central European University
Working Title-The Evolution of the American Corporation and Global Organizational Biodiversity (45 minutes)
4:15pm
Alan Hutchinson, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Working Title-Behind the Veil: Jumping the Salomon (45 minutes)
5:00pm End
6:00pm Cocktails followed by Dinner at the Rainier Club (Dinner at 7pm)
Berle III
Saturday, January 14, 2012
7:30am Breakfast
Session E
8:00pm
Anthony Casey, Associate Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Working Title-The Theory of the Firm and Creative Content (45 minutes)
8:45am
Sean O'Connor, Professor, University of Washington School of Law
Working Title-Revisiting Legal Personhood: Corporate Speech, Authorship, and Inventorship (45 minutes)
9:30am
Bruce H. Kobayashi, Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School
Working Title-Nevada and the Market for Corporate Law, (with Larry Ribstein) (45 minutes)
10:15am Break
Session F
10:30am
Jose Gabilondo, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Florida International University
Working Title-The Fed as a Firm: Running the Business of Moral Hazard (45 minutes)
11:15am
Janis Sarra, Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of British Columbia
Working Title-Berle, Corporate Power and Equity Derivatives (45 minutes)
12:00pm LUNCH (Please take a few minutes to stretch and then join us back in the meeting room)
Session G
1:00pm
Andrew Gold, Professor, College of Law, Depaul University
Working Title-Theories of the Firm and Judicial Uncertainty (45 minutes)
1:45pm
Lyman Johnson, Robert O. Bentley Professor of Law, College of Law, Washington and Lee University, and LeJeune Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas
Working Title- Law and the History of Corporate Responsibility (45 minutes)
2:30pm
Anne Tucker, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, College of Law, http://law.gsu.edu/directory/tucker
Working Title-The Dichotomous Citizen Shareholder (45 minutes)
3:15pm Break
Session H
3:30pm
Ruth Aguilera, Associate Professor, College of Business, Fellow, Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Working Title-Ownership Structure as a Precursor of Board Behavior (45 minutes)
4:15pm
Margaret Blair, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Law School
Working Title-The Four Functions of Corporate Personhood (45 minutes)
5:00pm End
Distinguished Guests:
William Wilson Bratton, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law; Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School
John Cioffi, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
Dan Danielsen, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law,
Stephen F. Diamond, Associate Professor of Law, Santa Clara Law
Diane Lourdes Dick, Assistant Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
Dino Falaschetti, Visiting Professor, Albers School of Business, Seattle University
Zach Gubler Associate Professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Jay Kesten, Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Anita Krug, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
Russell Powell, Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law
Faith Stevelman, Visiting Professor and Associate Director, Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law and Society, Seattle University School of Law
Fenner Stewart, Assistant Professor of Law , Capital University Law School
Harwell Wells, Associate Professor of Law, Temple University, Beasley School of Law