Conferences
In addition to the Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable, the Center holds conferences to explore timely topics in business law. Past conferences have examined financial service challenges following the Global Financial Crisis, as well as corporate governance reforms from U.S. and comparative perspectives. The Center also co-sponsors conferences organized by the Yale School of Management and student organizations, such as the Yale Journal on Regulation (JREG) or the Yale Law and Business Society (YLBS). For co-sponsored conferences, the Center primarily provides funding.
Center Conferences
September 20, 2013
Sullivan & Cromwell Conference on Challenges in Global Financial Services
Welcome and Panel I: Bank Capital and Liquidity Requirements
Panelists:
Stijn Claessens, Assistant Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund
Michael H. Krimminger, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and former General Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Andrew Metrick, Deputy Dean for Faculty Development & Michael H. Jordan Professor of Finance and Management, Yale School of Management
Roberta Romano ’80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director
Moderator:
Ian Ayres ’86, YLS William K. Townsend Professor of Law
Panel II: Bank Transparency and the Financial Crisis
Panelists:
Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. ’87, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Gary B. Gorton, Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management and Finance, Yale School of Management
Henry T. C. Hu ’79, Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance, University of Texas Law School and former Director, Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Moderator:
Donald Kohn, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and former Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
Keynote Address
Daniel K. Tarullo, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Panel III: Accountability and Structuring of Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs)
Panelists:
H. Rodgin Cohen, Senior Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Edward J. Kane, Professor of Finance, Boston College
Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, MIT Sloan SOM and Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
John F. Simonson, Deputy Director for Systemic Resolution Planning and Implementation, Office of Complex Financial Institutions, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Moderator:
Donald Kohn, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and former Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
Panel IV: Cross-Border Resolution
Panelists:
James W. Giddens ’66, Chair, Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy Group, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Liquidation Trustee, Lehman Brothers Inc. and MF Global Inc.
Seth Grosshandler, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Richard J. Herring, Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking & Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan R. Macey ’82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law
Moderator:
John D. Morley ’06, YLS Associate Professor of Law
October 7, 2005
Symposium on: “Reassessing Director Elections”
Panel I: Alternatives to Plurality Voting
Panelists:
Margaret M. Foran, Sr. Vice President-Corporate Governance, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Pfizer Inc.
Alan Gerber, Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Jeffrey N. Gordon, Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
John Wilcox, Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF
Moderator:
Robert Todd Lang ’47, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Panel II: Institutional Perspectives on Elections
Panelists:
Stephen Deane, Vice President and Director of the Institute for Corporate Governance, Institutional Shareholder Services
Harvey J. Goldschmid, Dwight Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
Joseph A. Grundfest, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
Eric D. Roiter, Sr. Vice President and General Counsel, Fidelity Management & Research Company
Damon A. Silvers, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO
Moderator:
Charles M. Nathan ’65, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Panel III: Comparative Perspective
Panelists:
Guido Ferrarini ’78 LL.M., Professor of Business Law, University of Genoa
Laurence Hazell, Director of Governance Services, Standard & Poor’s
Reinier H. Kraakman ’79, Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Moderator:
Roberta Romano ’80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law
Panel IV: Federalism and Elections
Panelists:
Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics and Finance, Harvard Law School
Alan Beller, Director, Division of Corporate Finance and Senior Advisor to the SEC Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Jonathan R. Macey ’82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law
The Hon. Ralph K. Winter ’60, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
Moderator:
The Hon. E. Norman Veasey, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
October 21, 2003
International Symposium on Assessing Corporate Law Reform in the Transatlantic Context
Panel I: Corporate Governance Reform
Panelists:
Andreas Cahn, Professor and Director, Institute for Law and Finance, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Paul Davies ’69 LL.M., Cassel Professor of Commercial Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Professor of Finance and Economics and Director, International Institute for Corporate Governance, Yale School of Management
Chair:
Michael E. Levine ’65, YLS Professor (Adjunct) of Law and former Dean, Yale School of Management
Panel II: Financial Market Reform
Panelists:
Eilis Ferran, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Jean-Francois Theodore, Chairman and CEO, Euronext
David Wright, Director, Financial Markets, European Commission
Eddy Wymeersch, Chairman, Banking and Finance Commission, Belgium and Professor of Commercial Law, University of Ghent
Chair:
Roberta Romano ’80, YLS Allen Duffy/Class of 1960 Professor of Law
Keynote Address
Jean-Francois Lepetit, Chairman of the Commission des Operations de Bourse
Panel III: Proposed EU Takeover Directive
Panelists:
Richard G. Asthalter ’71, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Marco Becht, Professor of Finance, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Executive Director of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Klaus Hopt, Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute of Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg and Member, EU High Level Group of Company Law Experts
Alain Pietrancosta, Professor, Francois Rabelais University Tours and Member, Financial Law Research Center, University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne)
Chair:
Alan Schwartz ’64, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Center Director
Panel IV: Corporate Restructuring and Mobility
Panelists:
Gerard Hertig, Professor of Law, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Helene Ploix, Chairman, Pechel Industries, and Board Member, BNP Paribas, Boots Group plc, Lafarge and Ferring S.A.
Roberta Romano ’80, YLS Allen Duffy/Class of 1960 Professor of Law
Chair:
Reid Feldman ’71, Partner, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP
Co-Sponsored Conferences
Financial Regulation and Corporate Governance
April 4, 2024
JREG Vol. 41 Symposium on "Financial Regulation in the 21st Century"
Presented by the Yale Journal on Regulation.
Panel I: Banking System Reform in the Wake of Silicon Valley Bank
Panelists:
Hilary Allen, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Scholarship, American University Washington College of Law
Kathryn Judge, Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Intellectual Life, Columbia Law School
Saule Omarova, Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, and Sidley Austin–Robert D. McLean Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Panel II: Regulatory Strategies for Risk Mitigation
Panelists:
Raúl Carrillo, Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
Edward Janger, David M. Barse Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Jonathan R. Macey ’82, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law, Yale Law School.
February 15, 2013
Yale Global Business Ethics Conference
Presented by the Yale Law & Business Society.
Introductory Lecture
Neil Fligstein, Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor, University of California Sociology Dept.
Panel I: Securities Law Enforcement Since 2008
Panelists:
Troy Paredes ’96, Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
David Anders, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Antonia Apps, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
William Cohan, Award-Winning Author and Journalist
Moderator:
Richard Squire, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Panel II: The Ethics of Extractive Industries
Panelists:
Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Chair, Natural Resource Charter
Ken Cohen, Vice President of Governmental Affairs, ExxonMobil
Joseph Bell ’68, Partner, Hogan Lovells
Keith Phillips, Global Head of Metals & Mining Investment Banking, Dahlman Rose
Moderator:
Peter Rosenblum, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor of Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Keynote Speaker
Sheila Bair, former Chairman, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Interview
Paul Volcker, former Chairman, President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board and former Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve
Panel III: Fostering Growth in Emerging Markets
Panelists:
Paul Brest, former Head, Hewlett Foundation
Lynn Roland, General Counsel, Acumen Fund
Baily Blair Kempner, Director of Growth and Sustainability, Endeavor Global
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Development Economics, Yale University
Moderator:
Dayo Olopade, YLS student and author of The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules & Making Change in Modern Africa
Panel IV: Closing Dialogue
Panelists:
James Wolfensohn, former President, World Bank and Founder, Wolfensohn & Co.
Michael Elliott, President and CEO, ONE Campaign
Moderator:
Amy Chua, YLS John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law
Spring 2007; Multi-Day
Yale Symposium on Corporate Governance
Co-sponsored with the Yale School of Management Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance.
January 29, 2007 - Inaugural Symposium
Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School
“Integrity: A Positive Model with Applications to Corporate Governance and Finance.”
March 1, 2007
Christian Leuz, Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
“Cost of Capital Effects and Changes in Growth Expectations around U.S. Cross-Listings.”
March 28, 2007
Luigi Zingales, Roberta C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
“Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?”
April 19, 2007
Robert M. Daines ’92, Pritzker Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
“Mandatory Disclosure, Information Asymmetry and Liquidity: The Effect of the 1934 Act”
Emerging Markets
March 24, 2012
“BRIC by BRIC: An Emerging Markets Conference”
Presented by the Yale Undergraduate Business Society.
Featuring:
Emilson Alonso, President, HSBC Latin America
Domingo Cavallo, President Central Bank, Argentina
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women’s World Banking Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University and Non-Executive Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia
March 26, 2011
“Asia Tomorrow 3.0: Technology’s Next Transition”
Presented by the Yale College Business Society.
Featuring:
Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics
James Woolsey, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
James Chanos, President & Founder of Kynikos Associates
Arun K. Singh, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India
Stephen Roach, Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute.