Lynn Stout Memorial Conference
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Lynn Stout Memorial Conference
Preliminary Agenda
February 1, 2019
The Cornell Club (The Ivy Room)
6 East 44th Street, New York, NY 10017
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Opening Address – Dean Eduardo Peñalver,
Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law
9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Panel 1 - “Citizen Capitalism”
This paper-presentation panel focuses on Lynn Stout’s latest book project of the same name, in which she and her co-authors advanced a proposal for creating a universal fund based on a universal share ownership scheme, as a way of giving citizens an active voice in both public and corporate governance.
Tamara Belinfanti, Professor of Law, New York Law School and Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director, Clarke Program on Corporations & Society, Cornell Law School
Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Nelson Tebbe, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School – moderator
10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Panel 2 - Corporate Law and Governance
This paper-presentation panel focuses on the fundamental issues in corporate law and corporate governance, including the nature of the corporation, corporations’ rights, problems in corporate governance, and new developments in corporate law.
Margaret M. Blair, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise Vanderbilt University
Elizabeth Pollman, Professor of Law, William M. Rains Senior Research Fellow Loyola Law School | Los Angeles
David Ciepley, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Denver
Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Boston College
Diogo Magalhaes, Visiting Fellow, Cornell Law School
Josephine Nelson, Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University – moderator
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15 – 2:45 p.m. Panel 3 - Markets and Prosociality
This paper-presentation panel focuses on issues of behavioral law and economics, the role of ethics in financial and corporate markets, the impact of financial speculation on market stability and financial crises, and the latest problems in derivatives regulation.
Frank Partnoy, Professor of Law, Berkeley Law | University of California
Erik Gerding, Professor of Law, Colorado Law | University of Colorado, Boulder
Cynthia Williams, Professor of Business Law, Osgoode Hall Law School | York University
Claire Hill, James L. Krusemark Chair in Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Saule Omarova, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School – moderator
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Coffee break
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Plenary Panel 1 - The Future of Scholarship on
Corporate Law and Finance
This discussion panel focuses on the key trends in, and key challenges facing, the academic community working in this field – and the place of Professor Stout’s intellectual legacy in this process.
William W. Bratton, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School
John C. Coffee, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law and director of the Center of Corporate Governance, Columbia Law School
Jill E. Fisch, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law; Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Jonathan R. Macey, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law, Yale Law School
Edward Rock, Martin Lipton Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Robert B. Thompson, Peter P. Weidenbruch, Jr. Professor of Business Law, Georgetown University Law Center
4:00 – 4:45 p.m. Plenary Panel 2 - The Engagement Challenge
This discussion panel focuses on the key challenges facing scholars of corporate law and finance in their efforts to engage in policy entrepreneurship, promote socially beneficial change, and build bridges with non-academic audiences – and the long-term impact of Professor Stout’s legacy of activism and mentorship.
Lisa M. Fairfax, Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law, George Washington University
Jeffrey N. Gordon, Richard Paul Richman Professsor of Law, Columbia University Law School
Donna M. Nagy, Executive Associate Dean, C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University | Bloomington
Charles R.T. O’Kelley, Professor and Director, Berle Center on Corporations, Law and Society, Seattle University School of Law
Hillary A. Sale, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
4:45 – 5:00 p.m. Concluding remarks
February 2, 2019
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Lynn Stout Memorial Service
St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street
209 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Lynn Stout Memorial Service organized by Cornell Law School and with the generous support of St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Church