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Business Law and Policy

The Program in Business Law and Policy includes an impressive array of University of Illinois faculty members. The Illinois Program in Business Law and Policy hosts public lectures in Chicago and on the Urbana-Champaign campus, develops conferences, and supports other business-related activities. The Program highlights various areas of expertise within the College of Law, including empirical work; law and economics; unincorporated and closely held firms; securities markets; entrepreneurship; the role of social norms; derivatives and other complex financial instruments; corporate social responsibility; bankruptcy; and European and other international law.

Affiliated Faculty

Amitai Aviram – LL.M., J.S.D. University of Chicago; LL.B. Tel Aviv University
Ralph Brubaker – B.S., M.B.A., J.D. University of Illinois
William Davey – B.A., J.D. University of Michigan
Nuno Garoupa – LL.M. University of London; Ph.D. University of York
Christine Hurt – J.D. University of Texas; B.A. Texas Tech University
Robert M. Lawless – B.S., J.D. University of Illinois
Nicola Sharpe – B.A. Cornell University; M.B.A., J.D. Yale University
Paul Stancil – B.A., J.D. University of Virginia
Charles Tabb – J.D. University of Virginia; B.A. Vanderbilt University
Cynthia Williams – J.D. New York University; B.A. University of California
Verity Winship – B.A., J.D. Harvard University

Journals

Illinois Business Law Journal

Student Organizations

Corporate & Business Law Association
Real Estate Law Society

Program Hosted Lectures

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Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
Sept. 13	Kim Krawiec	*Board Diversity*
Sept. 20	Harwell Wells	*Executive Compensation*
Sept. 24	Bernard Black	*Is Delaware Losing its Cases*
Sept. 28	Ola Bengtsson	*Venture Capital*
Oct. 5	Robert Bartlett	*Securities Disclosure*
Oct. 12	Eric Talley	*Board Governance*
Oct. 26	Kate Litvak	*Securities regulation*
Nov. 2	Todd Henderson	*Insider Trading*
Nov. 8	Cindy Alexander	*SEC Enforcement*
Nov. 15	Darian Ibrahim	*The entrepreneur's perspective*
Nov. 15	Raulee Marcus	*The entrepreneur's perspective*
Nov. 16	Jeff Brown	*Endowment governance*

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
Sept. 8	Kelli Alces	*Debunking the Corporate Fiduciary Myth*
Sept. 21	William Birdthistle	*Investment Indiscipline: A Behavioral Approach to Mutual Fund Jurisprudence*
Oct. 5	Martin Gelter	*Taming or Protecting the Modern Corporation? Historical Debates about Corporate Pluralism in a Comparative Light*
Oct. 6	James Spindler	*IPO Underpricing, Disclosure and Litigation Risk*
Oct. 12	Richard Squire	*Shareholder Opportunism in a World of Risky Debt*
Oct. 13	David Zaring	*Charter Switching and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Office of Thrift Supervision*
Oct. 20	Erik Gerding	*Disclosure 2.0: Leveraging Technology to Address Complexity and Information Failures in the Financial Crisis*
Oct. 26	Jill Fisch	*Private*
Nov. 3	Edward Iacobucci	*Anand & Iacobucci, An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts.*
Nov. 9	Jon Klick	*Valid Inference in Single-Firm, Single-Event Studies*
Nov. 10	Larry Ribstein	*Imagining Wall Street*
Nov. 16	Usha Rodrigues	*Private*

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
April 23	Larry Ribstein	*Beyond Wall Street: The Interplay Among Film, Business and the Law*

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
September 8	Darian Ibrahim	*Building the Next Silicon Valley: The Role of Angel Investors in Economic Development*
September 15	Fred Tung	*Creditors and the New Corporate Governance*
September 22	Houman Shadab	*The Law and Economics of Hedge Funds: Financial Innovation and Investor Protection*
September 23	Robert Thompson	*Corporate Voting*
October 13	Richard Booth	*The Paulson Report Reconsidered – How to Fix Securities Litigation by Converting Class Actions into Issuer Actions*
October 20	Donald Clarke	*Corporate Governance in China*
October 27	Paul Rose	*Sovereigns as Shareholders*
November 3	Steven Davidoff	*Failure of Private Equity*
November 4	Todd Henderson	*The Uses and Abuses of Rule 10b5-1*
November 10	Chris Brummer	*Post‐American Securities Regulation*
November 11		*Film: Wall Street*
November 17	Thomas Rutledge	*Practitioner’s perspective on theory*

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
Ocotober 19	Chancellor William B. Chandler III	*Mystery of Delaware Law's Success*