Academic Symposium
2024 Berkeley - ECGI Forum on Corporate Governance | Paper Award Competition
The Berkeley Center for Law and Business hosted an academic symposium focused on ESG-related topics (broadly defined) on November 15-16, 2024, in collaboration with ECGI. This was an invitation-only event.
The three 2024 Berkeley Center for Law and Business Best Paper Awards were announced at the workshop.
The winning papers:
- Senior Category | "Green Gatekeepers" by Luca Enriques, Alessandro Romano, Andrew Tuch
- Junior Category | “Expanding Shareholder Voice: The Impact of SEC Guidance on Environmental and Social Proposals" by Kenneth Khoo, Roberto Tallarita & "Private Profits and Public Business" by Aneil Kovvali, Joshua Macey
FURTHER INFORMATION: General inquiries regarding the competition, the Forum, and the
Symposium should be directed to bclb@law.berkeley.edu.
Programme
Friday, 15 November 2024 | 09:00 PST
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Presentations
Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation
Speaker(s)
The University of Texas School of Law
The Anatomy of Nonprofit Control
Speaker(s)
UC Berkeley
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Coffee break
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Presentations
Poor ESG: Regressive Effects of Climate Stewardship
Speaker(s)
University of Oxford
Expanding Shareholder Voice: The Impact of SEC Guidance on Environmental and Social Proposals
Speaker(s)
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
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Lunch
Keynote: The Failures of External Corporate Governance: Why “Good” Internal Corporate Governance is Not Always Good
Speaker(s)
Stanford Business School
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Presentations
Dark Accounting Matter
Speaker(s)
Stanford Law School
Corporate Governance for Social Conflicts
Speaker(s)
University of California, Berkeley
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Coffee break
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Presentations
The Political Carbon Cycle
Speaker(s)
Mitigating Corporate Washing
Speaker(s)
Green Gatekeepers
Speaker(s)
Washington University in St Louis School of Law
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Awards and Toast
Saturday, 16 November 2024 | 09:00 PST
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Presentations
Shareholder Preferences and Corporate Behavior
Speaker(s)
Columbia Law School
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Coffee break
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Presentations
Private Profits and Public Business
Speaker(s)
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Lunch
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Keynote: Environmental Stewardship and Corporate Governance
Speaker(s)
University of California, Berkeley
Columbia Law School
Speakers
Anat Admati
George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics
Stanford Business School
Fellow, Research Member
Jeffrey Gordon
Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership
Columbia Law School
Fellow, Research Member
Kenneth Khoo
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Representative Member
Presentations
Organised by
Stavros Gadinis
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Ofer Eldar
Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley
Angeli Patel
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