FRIDAY, APRIL 3
Michael K. Young Faculty Conference Center
716 20th Street NW, fifth floor
8:00-8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:30 -8:45 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Frederick M. Lawrence, Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law, George Washington University
Lawrence E. Mitchell, Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law, George Washington University
8:45 -9:30 a.m.
The 28th Annual Manuel F. Cohen Memorial Lecture
David M. Rubenstein, Founder and Chairman, The Carlyle Group
9:30– 11:15 a.m.
Historical Context
Robert Bruner, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
Sean D. Carr, Director, Batten Institute of Corporate Innovation Programs, University of Virginia
Maury Klein, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Rhode Island
Kenneth A. Snowden, Jr., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Richard Sylla, Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of Economics, New York University
moderated by Lisa Fairfax, Professor of Law and Director, Business Law Program, University of Maryland
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Financial Regulation and Accounting Part I
James Fanto, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Patricia A. McCoy, George J. & Helen M. England Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Professor, Columbus School of Law. Catholic University of America
David Arthur Skeel, S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
moderated by Michael Abramowicz, Professor of Law, George Washington University
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Financial Regulation and Accounting Part II
Edward I. Altman, Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business
Henry T. C. Hu, Allan Shivers Professor of Law of Banking and Finance, The University of Texas School of Law
Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Jonathan R. Macey, Deputy Dean and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law, Yale Law School
Frank Partnoy, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
moderated by William W. Bratton, Jr., Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
3:45– 5:45 p.m.
Global Implications
Robert B. Ahdieh, Professor of Law and Director, Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance, Emory Law
Anna Gelpern, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law - Newark
Joseph McCahery, Professor of Corporate Governance and Business Innovation, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics, University of Amsterdam
Jay R. Ritter, Professor of Finance, University of Florida
Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business, Duke University School of Law
Michael Waibel, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University
David Zaring, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
moderated by Lawrence A. Cunningham, Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law, George Washington University
5:45 p.m.
Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 4
8:00-9:00 a.m., Tasher Great Room
Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Financial Regulatory Reform
H. Rodgin Cohen, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP
Charles Geisst, Professor of Finance, Manhattan College
W. Russell Ramsey, Chairman and CEO, Ramsey Asset Management
Heather Slavkin, Senior Legal and Policy Advisor, AFL-CIO Office of Investment
Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., Professor of Law, George Washington University
moderated by Gregory Maggs, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, George Washington University
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Roundtable on Securities Regulation Reform
James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Harvey J. Goldschmid, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law and former Commissioner, SEC
Edward Labaton, Senior Partner, Labaton Sucharow
Irving Meyer Pollack, Of Counsel, Fulbright and Jaworski, Former Commissioner and Director of the Divisions of Enforcement and Market Regulation for the SEC
Stanley J. Sporkin, former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Former Division of Enforcement, SEC
moderated by Theresa A. Gabaldon, Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, George Washington University
12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
Luncheon
1:15 - 3:15 p.m.
Roundtable on the Significance of the Panic
Dennis K. Berman, Deputy Bureau Chief of Money and Finance, The Wall Street Journal
Rob Cox, U.S. Editor, Breakingview
Daniel Gross, Senior Editor, Newsweek
Jesse Eisinger, Senior Writer, Condé Nast Portfolio
William Handorf, Professor of Finance, School of Business, George Washington University
Floyd Norris, Chief Financial Correspondent, The New York Times
Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
moderated by Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
3:15 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Lawrence E. Mitchell, Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law, George Washington University