Volume Forty-TWO

8:00am-9:00am

Registration/Breakfast

9:00am-9:15am

Opening Remarks

9:15am-10:45am

Panel 1 (Managing Corporate Risk in a Meltdown)

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)

10:45am-11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am-12:30pm

Panel 2 (Balance of Power: Shareholder Activism and Federal Intervention)

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

2. • The New Shareholder Activism

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

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

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

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

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm-3:00pm

Panel 3 (The Way Forward: A New Paradigm for International Securities Regulation)

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

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

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

4. • Rethinking International Financial Regulation

3:00pm-3:15pm

Coffee Break

3:15pm-4:45pm

Practitioner Panel Discussion / Audience Q&A

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)

4:45pm-5:00pm

Closing Remarks