Thursday 14 June
WELCOME
9:00 am
Charles R. T. O'Kelley
Professor and Director | Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations | Law and Society Seattle University School of Law
Marc Moore
Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director | Centre for Commercial Law| Faculty of Laws | University College London.
SETTING THE SCENE
9:15 am
Framing Address: A Framework for Analyzing Financial Market Transformation
Steven Schwarcz
Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business | Duke University
9:45 am
Why Global Finance Needs an Institutional Bing Bang? How it can be achieved?
Emilios Avgouleas
Professor of International Banking Law and Finance | School of Law | University of Edinburgh
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am
What are the Purposes of Financial Markets, and how do the Current Arrangements Fare when Judged Pragmatically against Achievement of those Purposes?
Cynthia A. Williams
Professor | University of Illinois College of Law
THE PARAMETERS OF FINANCIAL/SECURITIES REGULATION
11:00 am
Securities Regulation vs. Financial Regulation
Steven M. Davidoff
Associate Professor of Law and Finance | Mortiz College of Law | Ohio State University
Claire A. Hill
Professor and James L. Krusemark Chair in Law | University of Minnesota Law
11:30 am
Law, Systemic Risk, and Resilience - are we asking the Right Questions?
Joanna Gray
Professor of Financial Regulation | Newcastle Law School | Newcastle University
David Bholat
Newcastle Law School | Newcastle University
12:00 pm
Revisiting "Truth in Securities' Revisited": Drawing the Line between Private and Public Markets
Adam Pritchard
Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law | University of Michigan Law School
12:30–1:30 pm
Lunch (Keeton Room, Bentham House)
REGULATING RISK IN FINANCIAL/SECURITIES MARKETS
1:30 pm
Due Diligence with Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
Merritt Fox
Michael E. Patterson , Professor of Law | Columbia Law School
2:00 pm
Members Undercover - Hedge Funds, Risk-Decoupling, and the Empty Voting Problem
Wolf-Georg Ringe
DAAD Lecturer in Law and Director | Institute of European and Comparative Law | University of Oxford Faculty of Law
2:30 pm
Making Money: Leverage and Private Sector Money Creation
Margaret Blair
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise | Vanderbilt University Law School
3:00 pm
Break
MANAGING FINANCIAL/SECURITIES MARKET FAILURE
3:15 pm
Deep Stall: The Problem of Unmanageable Technical Failures in Finance
Karel Williams (with Julie Froud & John Law)
Professor of Accounting and Political Economy | Director, Centre for the Study of Socio-Cultural Change | Manchester Business School | The University of Manchester
3:45 pm
Rethinking Private Placement Liability
William K. Sjostrom
Professor of Law | James E. Rogers College of Law | The University of Arizona
4:15 pm
Shareholder Democracy in the Shadow of the Financial Crisis
Alan Dignam
Professor of Corporate Law | School of Law | Queen Mary University of London
THE REGULATORY ARCHITECTURE OF FINANCE
4:45 pm
Can't see the Wood from the Trees? Measuring and Evaluating Regulatory Performance in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis through a CEDAR Prism
Justin O'Brien
Professor of Law | Faculty of Law | University of New South Wales
5:15 pm
The Long Road Back: Business Roundtable and the Implications for Future SEC Rule-Making
Jill E. Fisch
Perry Golkin Professor of Law | Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics | University of Pennsylvania Law School
5:45 pm
Who Wants to Watch? The emergence of financial consumers as regulatory actors in post-crisis international financial regulation
Toni Williams
Professor | Kent Law School | University of Kent
6:15 pm
Conclusion
7:00 pm
Symposium Dinner (UCL Terrace Restaurant)
INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: PROSPECTS AND LIMITATIONS
Friday, 15 June 2012
8:45 am
Who Beneficially Owns the Shares Whose Value We are Maximizing?
William Wilson Bratton
Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law | Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics | University of Pennsylvania Law School
9:15 am
The Potential of Stewardship
Sally Wheeler
Professor | Queen's University Belfast
9:45 am
International Institutions in U.S. Shareholder Litigation
David H. Webber
Associate Professor of Law | Boston University School of Law
10:15 am
Break
FINANCIALIZATION AND THE CORPORATE OBJECTIVE
10:30 am
The Financialization of the US Corporation
William Lazonick
Professor and Director | Center for Industrial Competitiveness | University of Massachusetts Lowell
11:00 am
Berle and Means, Veblen and the Critique of the Rentier
Paddy Ireland
Professor | Kent Law School | University of Kent
11:30 am
What Do Shareholders Really Value?
Lynn Stout
Goldberg Visiting Professor (Spring 2012) | Cornell University Law School
12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch (Keeton Room | Bentham House)
RETHINKING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
1:00 pm
Conceptions of Corporate Purpose in Post-Crisis Financial Firms
Christopher Bruner
Associate Professor of Law | Washington and Lee University School of Law
1:30 pm
The Market for Corporate Control-New Insights from the Financial Crisis
Blanaid Clarke
Associate Professor | School of Law | University College Dublin
2:00 pm
Social Capitalism and Custodial Regulation
David Westbrook
Professor | State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
2:30 pm
CSR and CSR Reports
Ciarán O'Kelly
Lecturer | Queen's University Belfast
3:00 pm
Shareholder Social Responsibility
David Millon
J. B. Stombock Professor of Law | Washington and Lee University School of Law
3:30 pm
Executive pay: could distributive justice theory get us out of this mess?
Charlotte Villiers
Professor | University of Bristol Law School
EVOLUTIONS IN (AND CHALLENGES TO) FINANCIAL CAPITALISM
4:00 pm
Central bank-led capitalism? Undisclosed, unchallenged, and unsustainable
Ismail Erturk (with Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver & Mick Moran)
Senior Lecturer in Banking | Manchester Business School |The University of Manchester
4:30 pm
The Modern Corporation Magnified: Managerial Accountability in Financial Services Holding Companies
Anita Krug
Assistant Professor |University of Washington School of Law
5:00 pm
The Governance and Disclosure of the Firm as an Enterprise Entity
Yuri Biondi
Tenured Research Fellow | National Center for Scientific Research, France
5:30 pm
Banking and Competition in Exceptional Times
Brett Christophers
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Economic Geography | Uppsala University
6:00 pm
Conclusion
