Luncheon Lectures
The Center provides a forum, by sponsoring lectures typically over lunch, for the presentation of current research and discussion of topical issues in the business law area by faculty of the Law School and other universities, and members of the bar.


William Chandler, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, April 17, 2008

Cindy Alexander, U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, March 12, 2008

Roberta Romano, Yale Law School, November 27, 2007

Clifford Holderness, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, April 5, 2007

Zen Shishido, Seikei University Japan, March 15, 2007

Gerard Hertig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, December 6, 2006

Richard Vann, University of Sydney and Harvard Law School, December 4, 2006

Roberta Romano, Yale Law School, November 14, 2006

Sanjai Bhagat, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 10, 2006

Alex Sussman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, April 20, 2006

Anita Anand, Queen's University Faculty of Law and Yale Law School, March 9, 2006

Vic Khanna, University of Michigan Law School, November 17, 2005

John Donohue, Yale Law School, November 3, 2005

Prof. Dr. Erich Schanze, Institut fur Rechtsvergleichung Philipps Universität Marburg, March 23, 2004

Michael E. Levine, Yale Law School, April 24, 2003


April 17, 2008

Chancellor William Chandler '79 LLM, Delaware Court of Chancery, spoke on "The First State: Delaware's Role as a Leader in Corporate Law." Co-sponsored with the Yale Law and Business Society. 



March 12, 2008 

  Cindy Alexander, Assistant Chief Economist, Office of Economic Analysis, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Visiting Research Scholar at the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, spoke on "Corporate Finance Rulemaking at the SEC: An Economics Perspective."



November 27, 2007

Roberta Romano '80, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, spoke on "How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers."



April 5, 2007

Clifford Holderness, Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, spoke on "Ownership Concentration around the World: Legal, Institutional, and Cultural Explanations."



March 15, 2007

 
Zen Shishido, Professor of Law, Seikei University, Japan, spoke on "The Turnaround of 1997: Changes in Japanese Corporate Law and Governance.



December 6, 2006

  Gerard Hertig, Professor of Law and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, spoke on "Corporate governance laws in Europe, Japan and the U.S.: Ownership regimes explain them all."


December 4, 2006

Richard Vann, Challis Professor, University of Sydney and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, presented a paper on "Manipulating the Firm and Values in International Taxation." Click here for paper.



November 14, 2006

Roberta Romano '80, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, spoke on "How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation,
Business and Academic Careers."
 


October 10, 2006

   Professor Sanjai Bhagat of the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, gave a lecture on "Corporate Governance Indices." Click here for paper.


April 20, 2006

   Alex Sussman '72, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, spoke on "The Use of Expert Witnesses in Securities Cases." View the PowerPoint Presentation from the lecture.

March 9, 2006

 Anita Anand, Associate Professor, Queen's University Faculty of Law and Yale Law School Visiting Lecturer in Law, presented a paper on "Voluntary vs. Mandatory Corporate Governance Regulation: Theory and Evidence." Click here for paper.  


November 17, 2005


Vic Khanna, Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law, University of Michigan Law School, spoke on "The Economic History of the Corporate Form in Ancient India." View the PowerPoint Presentation from the lecture.


November 3, 2005

John Donohue, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School, lectured on "Witness to Deception: An Insider's Look at the Disney Case."  


March 23, 2004

     Prof. Dr. Erich Schanze of the Institut für Rechtsvergleichung, Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany, gave a lecture entitled, "Directors' Duties and Behavioral Economics."


April 24, 2003

 

Yale Law School Professor (Adjunct) of Law Michael E. Levine '65, spoke about "The US Airline Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?"