Volume Forty-TWO

Symposium 2009  

Securities Regulation and the Global Economic Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?

Date of Symposium: Friday, October 30th, 2009

The Seton Hall Law Review hosted its annual Symposium on October 30, 2009, to address the impact of securities regulation on the current global financial crisis.  Specifically, this event examined the origins and genesis of the crisis, addressed the future of securities regulation both domestically and internationally, and attempted to anticipate the role of government agencies and private market participants in shaping and effectuating regulation. Some of the brightest minds from the legal, financial, and academic communities, state and federal governments, and self-regulatory organizations were on hand to assess and debate the challenges and opportunities presented by the prospective landscape of global securities regulation, as well as discussed what may be to come in the areas of corporate governance and risk management.

Featured presenters included:

1. Michelle M. Harner (Associate Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law)

2. • Risk Management, Corporate Insolvency & the Economic Crisis

3. Richard W. Painter (S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, University of Minnesota School of Law)

4. • Directors and Officers Liability for Taking Excessive Risk in Germany and the United States (Pt. 1)

5. Wulf A. Kaal (Assistant Professor, Mississippi College School of Law)

6. • Directors and Officers Liability for Taking Excessive Risk in Germany and the United States (Pt. 2)
     

7. Lisa M. Fairfax (Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School)

8. • The New Shareholder Activism

9. J.W. Verret (Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law)

10. • Treasury Inc.: How the Bailout Reshapes Corporate Theory and Practice
      

11. Joan MacLeod Heminway (Distinguished Professor of Law, The University of Tennessee College of Law)

12. • Federal Investment in Private Enterprise in the United States:  Evil or Cure?

13. Eric Chaffee (Associate Professor and Chair, Project for Law & Business Ethics, University of Dayton School of Law)

14. • Finishing the Race to the Bottom: An Argument for Harmonization and Centralization of International Securities Law

15. Chris Brummer (Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center)

16. • Rethinking International Financial Regulation

Featured practitioners included:

1. Francis H. Byrd (Managing Director and Co-Leader, Corporate Governance Advisory Practice, The Altman Group)

2. Amy J. Greer (Partner, Reed Smith LLP)

3. William Jannace (Managing Director, Member Regulation Division, FINRA)

4. Robert A. Marchman (Executive Vice President, Enforcement & Risk Group, NYSER)

5. Marc B. Minor (Chief of the Bureau of Securities, State of New Jersey Bureau of Securities)

Located mere minutes from New York City, Seton Hall Law School was ideally located to entertain a discussion on securities regulation amongst academics, practitioners, and other stakeholders. The Symposium was free to all who wished to attend and included a continental breakfast and lunch.  Six (6) New York CLE credits were available for full-day attendance at the program.

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