Academic ConferencesCornell Law School, Symposium on Law, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, New York City, February, 2013 (Public-Private Boundaries)
9th NYU/Penn Conference on Law & Finance, New York City, February, 2013 (Commentator) Association of American Law Schools Hot Topics Program on the JOBS Act, New Orleans, January 2013 University of Delaware Annual Corporate Law Conference, November 2012 (commentator) Association of American Law Schools, Section on Securities Regulation, January 2012 Institute of Law & Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School, December 2011 (Publicness in Contemporary Securities Regulation) 21St Century Commercial Law Forum, Eleventh International Symposium, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, November 12-13, 2011 (Corporate Law after the Financial Crisis) University of Delaware Annual Corporate Law Conference, November, 2011 (Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions) Fiduciary Duties in the Closely Held Firm 35 Years After Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home, Western New England College Law & Business Center, October 2010 The Delaware Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith after Disney: Meaningful or Mickey Mouse? New York Law School, November 2009 The Past, Present, and Future of the Securities and Exchange Commission, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, October 2009 Association of American Law Schools Conference on Business Associations, Long Beach, CA, June 7-10, 2009 (Plenary Session on the Role of the Basic Course). Leet Symposium, Case Western Reserve Law School, April 2009 (Financial Reform and the SEC). Mergers and Acquisitions Conference at Willemstad Curacao (sponsored by the University of Amsterdam Centre for Corporate Finance and Vanderbilt Law & Business Program), March 2009. The Future of Fiduciary Duty in Corporate Law, Notre Dame Law School, March 2009 (Fiduciary Duty’s Punctilio). Vanderbilt Law and Business Conference on Financial Reform (March 2009) (Financial Reform and the SEC). The Vanderbilt Law & Business Annual Conference October 30-31, 2008 (commentator). Virginia Law Review Conference on the 75th anniversary of the SEC, September 2008 (Securities Law and the New Deal Justices) Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell Law School, September 2008 (Discussant) The Delaware General Corporation Law for the 21st Century, Widener University School of Law, May 2008 (Defining the Shareholder Role) Shareholder Rights, Shareholder Voting and Corporate Performance, at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia March 2008 (cosponsored by the University of Amsterdam Centre for Corporate Finance and Vanderbilt Law & Business Program (Corporate Voting) University of Illinois College of Law, Dedication Program for Center for Business Law and Policy (October 2007) (Delaware’s Disclosure) University of Tokyo Symposium on Soft Law (July 2007) Institute for Law and Economic Policy, 13th Annual Conference (April 2007) (Fiduciary duty- commentator) Activist Investors, Hedge Funds and Corporate Governance at the University of Amsterdam (March 2007) and the Vanderbilt Law and Business Conference (October 2006) (The Limits of Shareholder Activism) Law & Contemporary Problems Conference on Odious Debt, Duke University (January, 2007) (Odious Debt) Institute for Law and Economic Policy, 12th Annual Conference (May 2006) (Securities Litigation and Its Lawyers) F. Hodge O’Neal Workshop on “Regulating Business” Washington University School of Law (April 2006) (Wall Street Scandals) Vanderbilt Law and Business Conference (Match 2006) (Odious Debt) Murphy Conference on Corporate Law, Fordham University School of Law “Responding to Corporate Misconduct: New Ideas” (commentator) November 4, 2005 Washington University School of Law Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, The New Corporate Governance, September 28-October 1, 2005 (commentator) University of Iowa College of Law, Robert Clark’s Corporate Law: Twenty Years of Change, September 10-11, 2005 (Federal Corporate Law: Tort and Fiduciary Duty) Institute for Law and Economic Policy, 10th Annual Conference April 23-24 (2004) (Derivative Suits) American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, September 2003 (“Shareholder Suits”) and May 1991 (“Limited Liability”) Institute of Law & Economics Roundtable, University of Pennsylvania, April 2003 & April, 1999 (Commentator) Financial Markets Research Center, Owen Graduate School of Management, Conference on Corporate Behavior and Financial Markets, April 2003 (Commentator) Wake Forest Law Review Symposium: April 2003- The Changing Role of Directors in Corporate Governance; April 1997-The Revolution of the Limited Liability Entity Vanderbilt Law and Business Conference- March 2003 (“Shareholder Suits”) and October 2003 (“Who Makes Corporate Law”) University of Cincinnati College of Law Corporate Law Symposium: 16th Annual Symposium February 2003- Agency Law Inside the Corporation; 12th Annual Symposium March 1999- Developments in the Law of Business Organizations The Crisis in Corporate Governance, University of Houston, November 7, 2002, Commentary as part of the Frankel Lecture Entity Rationalization, first annual symposium of The Business Lawyer, University of Maryland School of Law, November 1, 2002 (panel moderator and commentator) Van Gorkom and the Corporate Board; University of Delaware Center for Corporate Governance May 18-19, 2001. Judging Business: The Role of Judicial Decisionmaking in Corporate and Securities Law, University of Michigan Law School, John M. Olin Center for Law and Business, April 20-21, 2001 Institute for Law and Economic Policy and Washington University School of Law Conference on Corporate Accountability, March 9 & 10, 2001 Daniel J. Dykstra Corporate Governance Symposium, University of California Davis, King Hall School of Law February 9, 2001 (Commentator) Law & Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Lewis & Clark Law School, October, 2000 Teaching Corporate Law, University of Georgia Law School, October 1999 The Legacy of Henry Manne, Williamsburg, VA, May 1999 Association of American Law Schools Workshop on Business Associations, Washington, DC, May 1998 Control in Corporate Groups: A Global View, University of Connecticut School of Law, April 1998 The Impact of Cybercommunications on the Law, Columbia Institute for TeleInformation, Columbia Business School, December 1997 The European Private Company, Metro Institute for Transnational Legal Research, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands, April 1995 (Keynote Address) Auditor and Director & Officer Liability for Misstated Financial Statements (Keynote Address) John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University, April 28-29, 1995 LLCs, LLPs and the Evolving Corporate Form, University of Colorado School of Law, February 1995 Business Lawyering and Value Creation for Clients, University of Oregon School of Law, November 4-5, 1994 Association of American Law Schools, Section on Business Law, January 1994 Corporate Takeovers, Washington University Center for the Study of American Business, Law School and Business School, November 1986 |
Law Schools & Business SchoolsVanderbilt University Law School, September 2012 (Publicness)
University of Richmond School of Law, September, 2012 (Representative Suits) New York University Law School Colloquium, February 2010 Georgetown University Law Center, Faculty Workshop September 2009 Florida State University Law School Faculty Workshop February 26, 2009. Emory University School of Law, October 2008 University of Illinois College of Law Colloquium, September 2008 University of Iowa College of Law Colloquium September 2008 University of Connecticut School of Law February 2008 NYU School of Law February 2008 Columbia University School of Law Colloquium, January 2008 Fordham University School of Law Colloquium January 2008 University of California, Berkeley Law School, Law & Economics Workshop October 2006 UCLA School of Law Sloan Colloquium, March 2006 Seton Hall School of Law, March 2006 University of Pennsylvania Law School, November 2005 Monash University Law School, Melbourne Australia February 2004 University of Sydney School of Law, Sydney, Australia, February 2004, February 2000 and February, 1998 (Parsons Fellow) Washington University Workshop on Empirical Research in Law (WERL) February 2, 2004 University of California, Berkeley Law School, Law & Economics Workshop January 26, 2004 Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law, Widener University School of Law, November 14, 2003 NYU/Columbia Joint Colloquium on Theory in Law & Finance, NYU Law School December 9, 2002. University of Sydney Law School Takeovers Forum, February 28, 2002 (keynote address). University of Kentucky College of Law, November, 2000 University of Michigan Business School Seminar Series on Corporate Governance, February 1997 University of Oregon School of Law, March 1992 Northwestern University School of Law, October 1991 Journal of Corporation Law Annual Dinner, Iowa City, IA, March 1990 University of Missouri School of Law, Faculty Seminar, February 1989 Bar Associations, Courts, and Institutes: Twelfth Annual WTO Conference, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, May 2012, Financial Regulation Eleventh Annual WTO Conference, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, May 25-26, 2011, After the Financial Crisis The Supreme Court of New South Wales Annual Corporate Law Conference, Sydney, August 24, 2010, Bankruptcies or Bailouts Given Financial Reform American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Teleconference on Stoneridge March 2008 International Bar Association, Rethinking Policy and Market Liberalisation, Houston, November 14, 2002 (chairing session on Corporate Governance) Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, April, 1999 American Bar Association Section of Business Law, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, Luncheon Speaker, Spring Meeting, St. Louis, April, 1998 9th Tulane Corporate Law Institute, New Orleans, March 1997 Kansas Bar Association, June 1994 Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis Securities Regulation and Business Organization Committee (Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: An Update (November 1997) Small Business Committee, February 1993 (Limited Liability) Small Business Committee, March 1989 Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestiture Series March 1983 Corporate Counsel Institute, St. Louis, Missouri 10th Annual Institute, March 1991 (Panel on Legal Ethics) 7th Annual Institute, February 1988 Fourth Annual Corporate and Banking Institute, October 1985, Sea Island, Georgia |
General OrganizationsFederalist Society National Lawyers Convention, Washington DC, November 2012, Panel on the JOBS Act Council of Institutional Investors, Spring 2012 Meeting, April 2012, Panel on Capital Formation SEC Historical Society 75th Anniversary Celebration June 2009 Panel on “The Future of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission” National Trust Closely Held Business Association 30th Annual Workshop September, 2005 20th Annual Workshop October 1995 12th Annual Workshop, October 1987 Chicago Business Valuation Association, October 1991 American Society of Appraisers International Convention (Business Valuation Conference), June 1989 |
