Other Lectures
To further our mission of enhancing business law discourse at Yale and in the world, the Center provides a forum, generally in the form of lunch lectures, for the discussion of substantive questions, current research, and career-oriented topics. Speakers include policymakers, faculty of the Law School and other universities, and members of the bar and business community. The Center also co-sponsors lectures arranged by other YLS centers or administrative units, as well as by student organizations, such as the Yale Journal on Regulation (JREG) or Yale Law and Business Society (YLBS). For co-sponsored lectures, the Center primarily provides publicity or funding.
2024-2025 Lectures
Spotlight on 2023-2024
Nathan Lunch Lecture Series on Intellectual Property
In 2023-2024, the Center sponsored the Nathan Lunch Lecture Series on Intellectual Property, which permitted students to have informal discussions over lunch with prominent guest lecturers from the Working with Intellectual Property course taught by Victoria Cundiff ’80, Center Fellow, YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law, and Chair of the Sedona Conference Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets Law.
As part of the Series, Ryan Abbott ’11 gave a presentation to about 54 attendees on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Intellectual Property Law, which was co-sponsored by The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School.
Warren Tuttle, Founder, Tuttle Innovation (left) and Robert Greene Sterne, Founder and Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC (right)
All Lunch Lecturers
John F. Duffy, Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and Paul G. Mahoney Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School.
Richard L. Thurston, former Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
Robert Greene Sterne, Founder and Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC and Warren Tuttle, Founder, Tuttle Innovation.
Ryan Abbott ’11, Lawyer, Physician, Mediator, and Professor, University of Surrey School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine.
A. John P. Mancini, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP, Global Intellectual Property Practice, and Jon Putnam, Ph.D., Founder, Competition Dynamics.
How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law
Center Exec. Dir. Nancy Liao ’05 also gave the annual How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law presentation, in which she advised students on how best to navigate the business law curriculum at Yale Law School, based on the results of surveys that the Center conducted in 2020 of 218 practitioners from a minimum of 24 major law firms and 13 current and former in-house counsel.
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Co-Sponsored Lecture
Working with the Yale Law & Business Society and the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Center co-sponsored a presentation by Sven Riethmueller, Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, and Robert Todd Lang ’47 Entrepreneurship Fellow, on 11th Hour Option Discounting, or the practice of companies granting deeply discounted options during IPO preparations to executives, directors, and employees.
For more on 11th Hour Option Discounting, visit the YLS Today interview with YLS Clinical Prof. Sven Riethmueller.