Colloquium Announcement: Illinois Corporate Colloquium
Illinois Program in Law and Business Policy Corporate Colloquium
Fall, 2006 Speakers - 4:15 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) - College of Law Faculty Lounge
Please RSVP to Sally Cook at scook@law.uiuc.edu
Tues., Aug. 29 Olufumilayo Arewa, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law; "Sub-Saharan Africa and the Knowledge Economy: Legal Relationships, Incentives
and Performance-Based Governance" (This paper is available for viewing at https://www.law.uiuc.edu
Tues., Sept. 5 Roberta Romano, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law (3:30 p.m. start time); "Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation"
Tues., Sept. 12 Michael Weisbach, Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Distinguished Chair in Corporate Finance and Professor of Finance, College of Business; "The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds"
Mon., Sept. 18 Lawrence Cunningham, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law and Business and Libby Scholar, Boston College; "The Rules-Principles Continuum in Corporate Law, Securities Regulation and Accounting"
Tues., Sept. 26 Paul Vaaler, Associate Professor of Business Administration, College of Business; "Legal System and Rule of Law Effects on US Cross-Listing to Bond by Emerging Market Firms"
Tues., Oct. 10 Robert Sitkoff, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law (4 p.m. start time); "The Rise of the Statutory Business Trust"
Tues., Oct. 17 Kim Krawiec, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
Mon., Oct. 23 D. Gordon Smith, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
Tues., Oct. 24 James Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, Duke University Law School; "Does the Plaintiff Matter? An Empirical Analysis of Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Class Actions"
Mon., Nov. 6 Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair, John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Lerner College of Business and Finance, University of Delaware
Tues., Nov. 7 Mitu Gulati, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Mon., Nov. 13 Lawrence Mitchell, Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law, George Washington University Law School
Tues., Nov. 14 Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
