Berle X Symposium: Berle and His World
MAY 17 and 18, 2018 at Seattle University School of Law
BERLE X: DAY ONE
Thursday, May 17, 2018
7:30 am
Continental Breakfast
8:10 am
Welcome
Chuck O'Kelley, Director, Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law & Society
SESSION A
8:15 am
Keynote Address
The Honorable Leo E. Strine, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
9:15 am
Bernard Beaudreau, Professor of Economics, Laval University
Technological and Institutional Crossroads: The Life and Times of Adolf A. Berle Jr.
10:15 am
Break
SESSION B
10:30 am
Mark Hendrickson, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
"In a time of stress, a civilization pauses to take stock of itself:" Adolf A. Berle from the New Era to the New Deal
11:30 am
Jessica Wang, Associate Professor of U.S. History, University of British Columbia
Looking Forward in a Failing World: Adolf A. Berle in the Interwar Years
12:30 pm
Lunch
SESSION C
1:30 pm
Eric Hilt, Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
Berle's "New Concept of the Corporation" in Historical Perspective
2:30 pm
Brian Cheffins, Professor of Law, University of Cambridge
The Rise and Fall (?) of the Berle-Means Corporation
3:30 pm
Break
SESSION D
3:45 pm
Frank Partnoy, George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance, University of San Diego
Everything New is Old Again: Berle and Corporate Finance
4:45 pm
Chuck O'Kelley, Professor of Law, Seattle University
From Madonna to Caesar: The Berle-Dodd Debate in Context
5:45 pm
Conclusion of Day One
6:30 pm
Cocktails followed by dinner at the Rainier Club. Dinner will be served at 7:30 pm. Business Casual attire is requested
BERLE X: DAY TWO
Friday, May 18, 2018
7:30 am
Continental Breakfast
SESSION E
8:15 am
Andrew Smith, Senior Lecturer in International Business, University of Liverpool
Jason Russell, Associate Professor of History, Empire State College, SUNY
Kevin Tennent, Lecturer in Management, University of York
Berle and Means' The Modern Corporation and Private Property: the Military Roots of a Stakeholder Model of Corporate Governance
9:15 am
Jesse Tarbert, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland
Corporate Lessons for Public Governance: Wall Street Elites and the American State after World War One
10:15 am
Break
SESSION F
10:30 am
Bill Bratton, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Gardiner Means and The Modern Corporation's Missing Chapter
11:30 am
Elizabeth Pollman, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Quasi Governments and Inchoate Laws: Berle's Vision of Limits on Corporate Power
12:30 pm
Lunch
SESSION G
1:30 pm
Harwell Wells, Herman Stern Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Berle and the 'Modern Legal Profession'
2:30 pm
Bob Thompson, Peter P. Weidenbruch, Jr. Professor of Business Law, Georgetown University
Berle: After the Trifecta
3:30 pm
Break
SESSION H
3:45 pm
Nick Lemann, Joseph Pulitzer II, and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
Berle and the Twentieth Century
4:45 pm
Ewan McGaughey, Lecturer, King's College, London, and Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge
Democracy in America at Work: Ending the Enron Economy
5:45 pm
Closing Remarks and Thoughts
Drafts of paper(s) received will be circulated on May 1, 2018.
Law review draft submissions requested August 1, 2018
