SYMPOSIA

Day 1: THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 2021

Opening Supreme Court Panel
5:45 pm – 7:30 pm

Moderator:
Professor Joel Seligman, University of Rochester

Participants:
Executive Director F. Paul Bland, Jr., Public Justice
Amy Saharia, Esquire, Williams and Connolly LLP
Professor Elizabeth Sepper, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

DAY 2: Friday, JANUARY 29, 2021

Panel I
9:30 am – 11:00 am

Moderator:
Emma Gilmore, Esquire, Pomerantz LLP

Presenters:
The New Managerialism: Cutting Short the 50-Year Life of the Monitoring Model in Corporate Governance
Professor James Cox, Duke University School of Law
co-authoring paper with
Professor Randall Thomas, Vanderbilt University Law School

Validation Capital
Professor Alon Brav, Duke University: Fuqua School of Business
co-authoring paper with
Professor Dorothy Lund, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
and
Professor Edward Rock, New York University School of Law

Commentators:
Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III, Delaware Court of Chancery
Professor John Coates, Harvard Law School
Professor Robert Thompson, Georgetown Law School
Ted Mirvis, Esquire, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Panel II
11:15 am – 12:45 pm

Moderator:
Mark Lebovitch, Esquire, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, LLP

Presenters:
Should Corporations Have a Purpose?
Professor Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania Law School
co-authoring paper with
Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon, University of California Berkeley School of Law

Finding a Purpose in Corporate Charters
Professor Elizabeth Pollman, University of Pennsylvania School of Law

Commentators:
Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. (retired), Former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court
Professor Mark J. Roe, Harvard Law School
Susan Salzstein, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Luncheon Speaker
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Professor Robert J. Jackson, Former US SEC Commissioner, New York University School of Law

Panel III
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Moderator:
Carol V. Gilden, Esquire, Cohen Milstein

Presenters:
Corporate Adolescence
Professor Hillary Sale, Georgetown University Law Center
co-authoring paper with
Professor Donald Langevoort, Georgetown University Law Center

The SEC and Ideological Blind Spots
Professor Donna M. Nagy, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
co-authoring paper with
Professor Cynthia Williams, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Commentators:
Professor Craig M. Lewis, Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management
Sharon Nelles, Esquire, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Panel IV
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Moderator:
Darren Robbins, Esquire, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP

Presenters:
On a Stakeholder Model of Corporate Governance
Professor Jonathan Karpoff, University of Washington, Foster School of Business

Does it Matter Which Stakeholders We Punish?
Professor James C. Spindler, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Commentators:
Professor Robert Prentice, University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business
Meghan Peitzmeier, Esquire, Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association