Friday, January 13, 2012
7:30 am Breakfast
8:00 am Welcome
Session A
8:05 am
Kelli Alces, Loula Fuller, and Dan Meyers Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Working Title-Acknowledging the Public Firm (45 minutes)
8:50 am
Matthew Bodie, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, St. Louis University School of Law
Working Title-Corporation as Firm: A New Institutional Economics Approach to Corporate Law (45 minutes)
9:35 am
Teppo Felin, Associate Professor & Lee Perry, Fellow, Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University
Working Title-Theory of the Firm, the Innovation Commons, and the Future of Production: Do Boundaries Still Matter? (45 minutes)
10:20 am Break
Session B
10:30 am
David Yosifon, Assistant Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
Working Title-Locked-In: Shareholders, Consumers, and Theories of the Firm (45 minutes)
11:15 am
Richard Marens, Professor, College of Business Administration, California State University, Sacramento, Publications
Working Title-"We Don't Need You Any More": Corporate Social Responsibilities, Executive Class Interests, and the Solving of Mizruchi's and Hirschman's Paradox (45 minutes)
12:00 pm
Lunch (Please take a few minutes to stretch, and then join us back in the meeting room.)
Session C
1:00 pm
Peer Zumbansen, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Economic Governance and Legal Theory, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Working Title-Rethinking the Contractual Nature of the Firm: Contract Governance in Corporate Law (45 minutes)
1:45 pm
David Westbrook, Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
Working Title-A Shallow Harbor and a Cold Horizon: the Deceptive Promise of Agency Law for the Theory of the Firm (45 minutes)
2:30 pm Break
Session D
2:45 pm
Marina Welker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
Working Title-Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the Corporation (45 minutes)
3:30 pm
Ugo Pagano, Professor of Economic Policy, University of Siena and Central European University
Working Title-The Evolution of the American Corporation and Global Organizational Biodiversity (45 minutes)
4:15 pm
Alan Hutchinson, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Working Title-Behind the Veil: Jumping the Salomon (45 minutes)
5:00 pm End
6:00 pm
Cocktails followed by Dinner at the Rainier Club (Dinner at 7 pm)
Berle III
Saturday, January 14, 2012
7:30 am Breakfast
Session E
8:00 pm
Anthony Casey, Associate Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Working Title-The Theory of the Firm and Creative Content (45 minutes)
8:45 am
Sean O'Connor, Professor, University of Washington School of Law
Working Title-Revisiting Legal Personhood: Corporate Speech, Authorship, and Inventorship (45 minutes)
9:30 am
Bruce H. Kobayashi, Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School
Working Title-Nevada and the Market for Corporate Law, (with Larry Ribstein) (45 minutes)
10:15 am Break
Session F
10:30 am
Jose Gabilondo, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Florida International University
Working Title-The Fed as a Firm: Running the Business of Moral Hazard (45 minutes)
11:15 am
Janis Sarra, Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of British Columbia
Working Title-Berle, Corporate Power and Equity Derivatives (45 minutes)
12:00 pm Lunch
Session G
1:00 pm
Andrew Gold, Professor, College of Law, Depaul University
Working Title-Theories of the Firm and Judicial Uncertainty (45 minutes)
1:45 pm
Lyman Johnson, Robert O. Bentley Professor of Law, College of Law, Washington and Lee University, and LeJeune Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas
Working Title- Law and the History of Corporate Responsibility (45 minutes)
2:30 pm
Anne Tucker, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, College of Law
Working Title-The Dichotomous Citizen Shareholder (45 minutes)
3:15 pm Break
Session H
3:30 pm
Ruth Aguilera, Associate Professor, College of Business, Fellow, Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Working Title-Ownership Structure as a Precursor of Board Behavior (45 minutes)
4:15 pm
Margaret Blair, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University Law School
Working Title-The Four Functions of Corporate Personhood (45 minutes)
5:00 pm End
