Schedule

National Business Law Scholars Conference 2023

SCHEDULE

National Business Law Scholars Conference

June 15-16, 2023

The University of Tennessee College of Law

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 15th

8:15-9:15           Registration & Breakfast (First Floor Rotunda – Rear)

 

9:15-9:30           Opening Remarks (Room 132)

                          Joan MacLeod Heminway (The University of Tennessee College of Law)

 

9:30-11:00         Plenary Panel (Room 132)

                          The Entrepreneurship Community and the University

Moderator:  Brian Krumm (The University of Tennessee College of Law)

  • Eric Amarante (The University of Tennessee College of Law)
  • Daniel Miller (Innovation Crossroads, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
  • Tom Rogers (The University of Tennessee Research Park at Cherokee Farm)
  • Lynn Youngs (The University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business, Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation)

 

11:00-11:10        Break

 

11:10-Noon       Concurrent Panels:

Panel A (Room 132)

Corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Moderator and Discussant:  Joan MacLeod Heminway (The University of Tennessee College of Law)

  • Jill Fisch (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), Promoting Corporate Diversity: The Uncertain Role of Institutional Investors
  • Hrideja Shah (Inventus Law), Legal Frameworks for Corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives

 

Panel B (Room 136)

Business Taxation

Moderator and Discussant:  Eric Chaffee (Case Western Reserve University School of Law

  • Jordan Barry (USC Gould School of Law), Tax and the Boundaries of the Firm
  • Assaf Harpaz (Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law), International Tax Reform: Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

 

Panel C (Room 237)

Green Bonds

Moderator and Discussant:  Tomer S. Stein (University of Tennessee College of Law)

  • John Patrick Hunt (UC Davis School of Law), Green Bond Ratings
  • Chenghuai Xu (University of Edinburgh), Rethinking the Regulation of the US Green Bond Market

 

Noon-12:30      Lunch (First Floor Rotunda – Rear)

 

12:30-1:45         Plenary Panel (Room 132)

Author-Meets-Readers Session

A.C. Pritchard & Robert Thompson, A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press 2023)

 Author:             A.C. Pritchard (University of Michigan Law School)

Moderator:        James Tierney (Chicago-Kent College of Law)

Discussants:      Eric C. Chaffee (Case Western Reserve University School of Law)

                          Jill Fisch (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)

                          Ann M. Lipton (Tulane University Law School)

                          Donna M. Nagy (Indiana University Maurer School of Law)

 

1:45-2:00           Break

 

2:00-3:45           Concurrent Panels:

Panel A (Room 132)

Fiduciary Duties and the Business Judgment Rule

Moderator and Discussant:  Zhaoyi Li (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)

  • Abdullah Ahmed Alkayat Alazemi (Kuwait University School of Law), A Business Judgment Rule for the GCC
  • James An (Stanford Law School), The Process-Substance Divide In Corporate Law
  • Tomer S. Stein (University of Tennessee College of Law), Scrutinies
  • Paul Weitzel (University of Nebraska College of Law), The Case Against Officer Fiduciary Duties

 

Panel B (Room 135)

Securities Regulation

Moderator and Discussant:  Andrew K. Jennings (Emory University School of Law)

  • Will Clayton (BYU Law School), High-End Securities Regulation
  • Yuliya Guseva (Rutgers Law School), Restricting the Private Attorney General: Presumption Against Extraterritoriality in Dynamic Financial Markets
  • C. Pritchard (University of Michigan Law School), All Stick and No Carrot? Reforming Public Offerings
  • Reilly S. Steel (Princeton University), Partisan Bias in Securities Enforcement
  • James Tierney (Chicago-Kent College of Law), The Stock Exchange Rulemaking Firehose: A Law-As-Data Approach

 

Panel C (Room 136)

Politics and Corporate Governance

Moderator and Discussant:  Alan James Kluegel (University of Kentucky College of Law)

  • Matteo Gatti (Rutgers Law School), Corporate Governing
  • Christopher S. Havasy (Harvard Law School), Power, Democracy, and Legitimacy in Corporate Governance
  • Joan MacLeod Heminway (The University of Tennessee College of Law), Federalism and Corporate Law
  • Tom C.W. Lin (Temple University Beasley School of Law), Corporate Political Governance

 

Panel D (Room 237)

Banking Regulation

Moderator and Discussant:  Nizan Geslevich Packin (City University of New York)

  • Colleen Baker (University of Oklahoma Price College of Business) & Chris Odinet (University of Iowa College of Law), The Gamification of Banking
  • Maria Maciá (Notre Dame Law School), Shielding “Too-Big-To-Fail” Banks from Competitive Pressure by Looking Down On “Middle” Banks
  • Anna Toniolo (Harvard Law School), Paying for Diversity? Diversity Metric in Banks’ Executive Compensation
  • Yueh-Ping (Alex) Yang (Taiwan University College of Law), Banking in a De-Banking World: The Case Against SEC and CFTC as the Primary Crypto-Asset Regulator

 

3:45-4:00           Break

 

4:00-5:30           Concurrent Panels:

Panel A (Room 132)

Exploring Corporate Governance

Moderator and Discussant:  Tom C.W. Lin (Temple University Beasley School of Law)

  • Will Bunting (Stetson University College of Law), A Consumer-Based Theory of Corporate Structure
  • Sheharyar S. Hamid (Lahore University of Management Science Shiekh Ahmad Hassan School of Law), A tale of Two Regimes: Protecting Minority Shareholders Under Pakistani and English Laws

 

Panel B (Room 135)

Insider Trading Regulation

Moderator and Discussant:  Joan MacLeod Heminway (The University of Tennessee College of Law)

  • Michael D. Guttentag (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles), What Inside Information Is Worth and Why It Matters
  • Donna M. Nagy (Indiana University Maurer School of Law), The Economic Value of Confidential Government Information
  • Sarah J. Williams (Penn State Dickinson Law), Regulating Congressional Insider Trading: The Rotten Egg Approach

 

Panel C (Room 136)

The Intersection of Business and Contract Law

Moderator and Discussant:  Naveen Thomas (New York University School of Law)

  • Martin Edwards (Belmont University College of Law), Freedom of Contract Isn’t Free (But Arbitration is Cheap)
  • Farshad Ghodoo​si (David Nazarian College of Business and Economics California State University, Northridge) & Tal Kastner (Touro Law Center), The Corporate Takeover of Contract Law
  • Maria Veronica Saladino (Georgetown University Law Center), Enforceability of Choice of Court Clauses in Transnational Agreements: the 2005 Hague Convention, Its Implementation in Contracting States, and the U.S. Approach
  • Naveen Thomas (New York University School of Law), Mythical Adverse Effect

 

Panel D (Rom 237)

Business Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Law

Moderator and Discussant:  Colleen Baker (University of Oklahoma Price College of Business)

  • Christopher D. Hampson (University of Florida Levin College of Law), Harsh Creditor Remedies & the Role of the Redeemer
  • Robert W. Miller (University of South Dakota, Knudson School of Law), Loan-to-Own 2.0 and the Shifting Baseline for DIP Financing
  • Nizan Geslevich Packin (City University of New York), Decentralized Credit Scores: Black Box 3.0

 

5:30-6:30           Reception (First Floor Rotunda – Rear)

 

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 16th 

 8:00-8:35           Breakfast (First Floor Rotunda – Rear)

 

8:35-8:45           Second Day Opening Remarks (Room 132)

                           Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. (The University of Tennessee College of Law)

 

8:45-10:00         Plenary Session (Room 132)

Educating Lawyer Entrepreneurs – Roles for Business Law Programs and Teacher-Scholars Moderator:  Joan MacLeod Heminway (The University of Tennessee College of Law)

  • Booth Andrews (Morehous Legal Group, PLLC; The Booth Andrews Company, LLC)
  • Heath Clark (Clark Business & Health Law; formerly, H. Clark Distilling Company, LLC)

 

10:00-10:15        Break

 

 10:15-Noon       Concurrent Panels:

Panel A (Room 132)

ESG

Moderator and Discussant:  Chenghuai Xu (University of Edinburgh)

  • William Bratton (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), Shareholder Primacy versus Shareholder Accountability
  • George S. Georgiev (Emory University School of Law), Human Capital as a Mission-Critical ESG Factor: New Evidence & Legal Implications
  • Jason C. Jones (North Carolina Central University School of Law), Anti – Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Regulations – Government Intervention to Thwart Market Trends
  • Alan James Kluegel (University of Kentucky College of Law), The Anti-ESG Backlash Is Just A Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Freakout

 

Panel B (Room 135)

Business Law & Technology

Moderator and Discussant:  Michael J. Burstein (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)

  • Zhaoyi Li (University of Pittsburgh School of Law), Technology Governance Under Corporate Law
  • Diana Chioma Onyejiaka (Southern University Law Center), Integrating Geospatial Intelligence and Computational Law into Risk Management Solutions: Revolutionizing Transnational Business in Conflict Zones in Africa
  • Samuel N. Weinstein (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), Antisocial Innovation

 

Panel C (Room 136)

Start-Ups

Moderator and Discussant:  Gad Weiss (Columbia Law School)

  • Marco Corradi (ESSEC Business School), CVC-backed Start-up Failure
  • Andrew K. Jennings (Emory University School of Law), Vice Capital
  • Rachel Landy (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), Exit Engineering

 

Panel D (Room 237)

Antitrust

Moderator and Discussant:  Benjamin Edwards (William S. Boyd School of Law – University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

  • Anat Alon-Beck (Case Western Reserve University School of Law), SPAC Directors: Big Tech’s New Approach to Skirting Antitrust
  • Gregory Day (University of Georgia Terry College of Business), Antitrust for Immigrants and Undocumented People
  • Peter Whelan (University of Leeds), The Use of Director Disqualification in Antitrust Law Enforcement: A Normative Analysis
  • Kwanghyuk “David” Yoo (Emory University School of Law), Antitrust Balancing of Innovation and Competition in Patent Dispute Settlement Regulation

 

Noon-1:00        Lunch (First Floor Rotunda – Rear)

 

 1:00-2:00        Concurrent Panels:

Panel A (Room 132)

Securities Regulation in Cyberspace

Moderator and Discussant:  Yueh-Ping (Alex) Yang (Taiwan University College of Law)

  • Eric C. Chaffee (Case Western Reserve University School of Law), Crowdsourcing Securities Regulation
  • Marco Dell’Erba (New York University School of Law), Crypto-Trading Platforms as Exchanges

 

Panel B (Room 135)

Venture Capital

Moderator and Discussant:  Patrick Corrigan (Notre Dame Law School)

  • Samuel N. Weinstein (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), Venture Predation
  • Gad Weiss (Columbia Law School), The Venture Corporation

 

Panel C (Room 136)

Business Arbitration

Moderator and Discussant:  Martin Edwards (Belmont University College of Law)

  • Nicole G. Iannarone (Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law), Losing, Explained? Pro Se Parties and Mandatory Arbitration
  • Vera Korzun (The University of Akron School of Law), Bifurcating Foreign Investor Protection
  • Benjamin Edwards (William S. Boyd School of Law – University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Secretly Recidivist Stockbrokers

 

Panel D (Room 237)

Employment Law

Moderator and Discussant:  Natalya Shnitser (Boston College Law School)

  • Sherley Cruz (University of Tennessee College of Law), Applying ESG Principles to Improve Workplace Sexual Harassment Policies
  • Samantha J. Prince (Penn State Dickinson Law), Sliding into Second Base: Inching Toward that Middle Ground Between Employee and Independent Contractor

 

2:00-2:15           Break

 

2:15-3:15           Concurrent Panels”

Panel A (Room 132)

Beyond Wealth Maximization

Moderator and Discussant:  Jason C. Jones (North Carolina Central University School of Law)

  • Emilie Aguirre (Duke Law School), The Social Benefits of Control
  • Patrick Corrigan (Notre Dame Law School), Corporate Governance for Social Enterprises and the Stockholder Sellout Dilemma
  • Aneil Kovvali (Indiana University Maurer School of Law), Trophy Assets

 

Panel B (Room 135)

The Implications of Choice of Entity

Moderator and Discussant:  Anat Alon-Beck (Case Western Reserve University School of Law)

  • Judy M. Cornett (University of Tennessee College of Law), A Bridge Too Far: Ford Motor Company and the Future of Personal Jurisdiction over Corporations
  • Andrew Luis Granato (Yale Law School & Yale School of Management), After the “Partner Run”: the Dewey & LeBoeuf Diaspora

 

Panel C (Room 136)

Social Media & Business Law

Moderator and Discussant:  James Tierney (Chicago-Kent College of Law)

  • Chao-Sheng Chiang (College of Law, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan), Social Media, Manipulation and Securities Regulations – What Taiwan Can Learn From U.S. Experiences
  • Christine Hurt (SMU Dedman School of Law), Socially Acceptable Securities Fraud
  • Ann M. Lipton (Tulane University Law School), Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure

 

Panel D (Room 237)

Mutual Funds

Moderator and Discussant:  Eric C. Chaffee (Case Western Reserve University School of Law)

  • Caleb Griffin (University of Arkansas School of Law), The Anti-Efficient Index Fund
  • Jeffrey Manns (George Washington University Law School), The Case for Giving Investors a Say on ESG Voting
  • Natalya Shnitser (Boston College Law School), The 401(k) Conundrum in Corporate Law

 

3:15-3:30           Closing Remarks (Room 132)

                          Joan MacLeod Heminway (The University of Tennessee College of Law)