Peter J. Wallison – A.A. Sommer, Jr. Lecture Transcript (10.28.10)
Financial Reform Legislation: There Ought To Be A Law, But Is This It?
On November 15, 2010, Columbia Law Professor John C. Coffee, Jr. and Fordham Law Professor Richard Squire spoke at Fordham Law School about the recent Dodd-Frank legislation in a program entitled “Financial Reform Legislation: There Ought to be a Law, But is This It?” For more information about the event, please visit the Fordham Law [...]
Professor Sean J. Griffith’s Forthcoming Book – “Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation”
Sean J. Griffith, the T.J. Maloney Chair in Business Law and Director of the Corporate Law Center, is celebrating the release of his new book titled “Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation.” The book was co-authored with Tom Baker and published by the University of Chicago Press. Come meet Professors Griffith and [...]
Professor Sean J. Griffith speaks at Chicago Fordham Law Roundtable Series
On Friday, November 5, T.J. Maloney Chair in Business Law and Director of the Corporate Law Center Sean J. Griffith was the featured speaker at one of Fordham Law’s Roundtable Series live events, presented by The National Law Journal. The event, which took place at Morton’s Steakhouse in Chicago, was titled “D&O Insurance: Ensuring Corporate [...]
Inaugural Comparative Corporate Governance Distinguished Lecture Series – Daniel Awrey and Mariana Pargendler
This Fall, the Fordham Corporate Law Center hosted the first two speakers in our new Comparative Corporate Governance Distinguished Lecture Series, co-sponsored with the Fordham Law International and Non-J.D. Programs. On October 13th, 2010, Professor Daniel Awrey gave the inaugural lecture entitled “Financial Innovation: Governance and Regulatory Challenges.” Professor Awrey, a visiting scholar at Columbia [...]
Peter Wallison – A.A. Sommer, Jr. Lecture on Corporate, Securities and Financial Law (10.28.10)
The Fordham Corporate Law Center, in association with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, hosted the annual A.A. Sommer Lecture on Corporate, Securities and Financial Law on October 28, 2010. This year’s speaker was Peter J. Wallison, the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies and the Co-Director of the Financial Policy Studies Program at [...]
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Highlights From Volume 18 Book I
THE BEHAVIORAL PARADOX: WHY INVESTOR IRRATIONALITY CALLS FOR LIGHTER AND SIMPLER FINANCIAL REGULATION
It is widely believed that behavioral economics justifies more intrusive regulation of financial markets, because people are not fully rational and need to be protected from their quirks. This Article challenges that belief. Firstly, insofar as people can be helped to make better choices, that goal can usually be achieved through light-touch regulations. Secondly, faulty [...]
DEMANDING SUBSTANCE OR FORM? THE SEC’S PLAIN ENGLISH HANDBOOK AS A BASIS FOR SECURITIES VIOLATIONS
In 1998, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) released a style manual titled “The Plain English Handbook.” The culmination of a drive by its Chairman, Arthur Levitt, the Handbook drew upon the rules of grammar, best industry practice, and even the support of billionaire Warren Buffett in calling for a layman’s [...]
FULL OF HOT AIR? EVALUATING THE AIRGAS COURT’S RESERVATIONS ABOUT SHAREHOLDERS’ SHORT-TERM AND LONGTERM INTERESTS IN TAKEOVERS
This Note explores the incentives and preferences of shareholders in takeovers. This analysis is conducted in the context of the Delaware Chancery Court’s February 2011 decision in Air Products & Chemicals v. Airgas. In that case, the court’s decision largely turned on whether certain short-term and long-term shareholders have different preferences and incentives in takeovers. [...]
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