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Midwestern Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting -Day Two

 The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association will be held on October 4-5 at Notre Dame Law School.  Program after the break.

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Posted by legalscholarshipblog on October 4th, 2009 | Law and Gender, CONFERENCES | no comments

Midwestern Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting - Day One

 The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association will be held on October 4-5 at Notre Dame Law School.  Program after the break.

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Posted by legalscholarshipblog on October 4th, 2009 | Law and Economics, CONFERENCES | no comments

The Past, Present, and Future of the SEC

October 16, 2009

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, and Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society present a symposium, “The Past, Present, and Future of the SEC,” on Friday, October 16, 2009 from 10:30 am-5 pm.  Space is limited, so registration is strongly recommended; you can register here.

11:00 am -12:00 pm     Panel One, Corporation Finance

Kenneth Davis, Dean & Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

Renee Jones, Associate Professor of Law, Boston College Law School

Robert Thompson, New York Alumni Chancellor’s Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School

12:00 - 1:45 pm               Keynote Address & Lunch

Hon. Troy A. Paredes, Commissioner, United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Carla Rosati, Executive Director, Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society

 1:45 - 2:45 pm                Panel Two, Investment Management

Claire Hill, Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Law and Rationality, University of Minnesota Law School

Jonathan G. Katz, Secretary (1986-2006), United States Securites and Exchange Commission

Edward S. Knight, Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Chief Regulatory Officer, NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.

3:00 - 4:00 pm               Panel Three, Trading and Markets 

Donald Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Erik R. Sirri, Professor of Finance, Babson College; Director (2006-2009), United States Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Trading and Markets

Chester Spatt, Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business; Chief Economics & Director (2004-2007), United States Securities and Exchange Commission

4:15 - 5:15 pm                  Panel Four, Compliance and Enforcement 

Jayne Barnard, Cutler Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School

Douglas Branson, W. Edward Sell Professor of Business Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Donna Nagy, C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Posted by legalscholarshipblog on October 4th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments

Fourteenth Annual LatCrit Conference - Washington, D.C.

October 1, 2009toOctober 4, 2009

American University Washington College of Law hosts the Fourteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc.) Conference on October 1-4, 2009. The theme of this year’s conference is Outsiders Inside: Critical Outside Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime. The Seventh Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), will take place concurrently with the conference.

The LatCrit XIV Host Committee invites the submission of proposals for panels and papers propounding prescriptive critiques of discrete areas of law, policy and regulation of specific relevance to outsider communities, including (but by no means limited to) economic justice, international and comparative law, criminal law and the death penalty, civil rights and constitutional law (including gender and LGBT equality, reproductive and disability rights), immigration, political and electoral (dis)enfranchisement, communications policy and intellectual property, healthcare, education, employment, tax policy, and the environment.

Please submit panel and paper proposals through the online process at the LatCrit website no later than April 27, 2009. For full information and submission protocols, please refer to the call for papers and panels.

Thanks to Professor Ezra Rosser of Poverty Law Prof Blog for this information.

Update (Aug. 10, 2009): Preliminary schedule is here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 16th, 2009 | EVENTS | no comments