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To Protect Their Interests:  Corporate Bankruptcy History and Practice

Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 57, Symposium


When

Friday, October 23, 2026 | 8:30 a.m. - 1:10 p.m. EST.

Where

The Larson Auditorium | Register now.

CLE Credits

Pending NJ CLE credit

Tickets

$30 (complimentary for current Seton Hall Law students, faculty, and staff). There will be complimentary brunch during the event. Parking validation is included with the $30 registration fee. Parking will be validated only for tickets from LAZ Parking Garage at One Newark Center which is adjacent to the Law School located at 42 Mulberry Street Newark, NJ. Please hold your parking garage ticket for validation once inside the law school.

Description

To celebrate the publication of Professor Lubben's new book – To Protect Their Interests: The Invention and Exploitation of Corporate Bankruptcy – the Law Review is convening a symposium of leading academics, judges, and practitioners to discuss and write about the book. The panels will address the role that To Protect Their Interests, and historical understandings of bankruptcy more generally, can play in understanding modern corporate bankruptcy and restructuring.

CLE MATERIALS COMING SOON

Agenda - Friday, October 23, 2026

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Check-in and Breakfast

Located on the 3rd floor landing area outside the Larson Auditorium

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Autym Dymarczyk
Autym Dymarczyk
Symposium Editor,
Seton Hall Law Review
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Ronald H. Weich
Ronald Weich
Dean,
Seton Hall University School of Law

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9:10 - 10:50 a.m.

Panel 1: Academics

Stephen Lubben
Moderator: Stephen Lubben
Professor of Law,
Seton Hall University School of Law

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Stephanie Ben-Ishai
Stephanie Ben-Ishai
Distinguished research Professor,
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

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Vincent Buccola
Vincent Buccola
Professor of Law,
University of Chicago Law School
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David Skeel
David Skeel
S. Samuel Arsht Professor,
University of Pennsylvania Law School

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Diane Lourdes-Dick
Diane Lourdes-Dick
Charles E. Floete Distinguished Professor of Law,

University of Iowa College of Law
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10:50 - 11:20 a.m.

Brunch Spread

11:20 - 1:00 p.m.

Panel 2: Practitioners and Judges

Stephen Lubben
Moderator: Stephen Lubben
Professor of Law,
Seton Hall University School of Law
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Brett Theisen
Brett Theisen
Partner and Co-Chair, Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy,
Connell Foley, LLP
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John S. Mairo
John S. Mairo
Co-Practice Group Leader, Bankruptcy and Restructuring, 
FBT Gibbons, LLP

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The Honorable Lisa G. Beckerman
The Honorable Lisa G. Beckerman
United States Bankruptcy Judge,
Southern District of New York

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The Honorable Michael B. Kaplan
The Honorable Michael B. Kaplan
United States Bankruptcy Judge,
District of New Jersey 
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1:00 - 1:10 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Eliza Schank
Eliza Schank
Editor-in-Chief, 
Seton Hall Law Review
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CONTACT
In the interim, if you have any questions or need to make changes to your registration, please contact Gregg Childers at [email protected].


Registration

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