Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Rubloff Building, 375 E. Chicago Avenue
8:30-10:10 Session A – Insurance/Finance (Parillo Court Room-Rubloff 155)
Panel Chair: Ezra Friedman
Thomas Brennan, When Does a Summation Index Add Up?
Lee Anne Fennell, Risk Reversals
Robert J. Rhee, Procedural Election: Towards Private Risk Allocation in Litigation Through the Election of the Standard of Proof and Fee Shifting Rules
Peter H. Huang, How To Democratize Financial Planning So That Everyone Can Enjoy Their Highest Sustainable Standard of Living and Life Satisfaction
8:30-10:10 Session B – Securities (RB 175)
Panel Chair: Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Securities Regulation and Market Crisis: Financial Interpretation, Trading and Networks
Cindy R. Alexander, Yoon-Ho Alex Lee, The Dynamics of SEC Rulemaking: Evidence on the Informational Environment around SOX Rules
Arthur Laby, Behavioral Finance and the Prohibition on Insider Trading
Dale B. Thompson, Regulation of Hedge Funds:Â Lessons from Market Failures, Business Organizations, and Environmental Policy
8:30-10:10 Session C – Political Economy (RB 180)
Panel Chair: Peter DiCola
Margaret Brinig, Nicole Stelle Garnett, The Effect of Catholic School Closings on Neighborhoods and Families
Charlotte Crane, Burdens or Bounties: Federal Excises on Tobacco and Sugar Processing in the Early Republic
Larry Ribstein, Bruce Kobayashi, Jurisdictional Competition for LLCs
Peter DiCola, Why Didn’t Radio Companies Get Even Bigger After the Telecommunications Act of 1996
10:30-11:45 Session A – Employment Law (Parillo Court Room-Rubloff 155)
Panel Chair: Ezra Friedman
Franita Tolson, The Boundaries of Litigating Unconscious Discrimination: Firm-Based Remedies in Response to a Hostile Judiciary
Lesley Wexler, Jonah Gelbach, Jonathan Klick, Passive Discrimination: Compensation and Conditions of Employment as Mechanisms of Segregation
Scott A. Moss, Peter H. Huang, Judges’ Behavioral Problems: What Behavioral Economics and Happiness Research Say Employment Law Gets Wrong
10:30-11:45 Session B – Corporate Tax (RB 175)
Panel Chair: Charlotte Crane
Leandra Lederman, W(h)ither Business Purpose and Economic Substance?
Claire Hill, Kristin Hickman , The Illegitimacy of Tax Shelter Regulation
Bradley T. Borden, Residual-Risk Model for Classifying Tax Entities
10:30-11:45 Session C – Issues in Civil Liability (RB 180)
Panel Chair: TBD
Jay Weiser, Ronald Neath, Enforcement Intensity and Community Association Unit Value: An Empirical Study
Christopher Drahozal, Stephen J. Ware, Arbitration and Litigation as Competitors in the Pre-Dispute Market for Binding Dispute Resolution
12:45 Session A – Criminal (Parillo Courtroom-RB155)
Panel Chair: Max Schanzenbach
Thomas J. Miles, Disparities in Federal Prosecutors Applications for Wire Tap Warrants
Manu Raghav, Why Do Budgets Received by State Prosecutors vary across Districts in the United States?
12:45 Session B – Corporate Law II (RB 175)
Panel Chair: Peter DiCola
Antony Page, Material Adverse Change Clauses: Explanations and Practice
Emanuela Carbonara, Francesco Parisi, Matteo Alvisi and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Complementing Substitutes
Gerrit De Geest, Margo Schlanger, Should Multitask Agents Be Immune from Tort Liability?
Sharon Hannes, Compensating for Executive Compensation: The Case for Gatekeeper Incentive Pay
12:45 Session C – Consumer Protection (RB 180)
Panel Chair: Jeffrey Stake
Ezra Friedman, Competition and Unconscionability
Rafael Pardo, An Empirical Examination of Access to Chapter 7 Relief by Pro Se Debtors
Robert A. Katz, The Artifice of the Deal, or How to Transfer Noncommodified Human Tissue Without Actually Selling It
Eric Goldman, Economics of Reputational Information
