Shareholders and Corporate Governance: A Tribute to Randall Thomas
**Attendance at this event was by invitation only**
Programme
Monday, 04 November 2024 | 08:45 - 16:45 CET
Registration
Session 1
Moderator
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Shareholder Litigation in Delaware: An Empirical Investigation
Speaker(s)
Duke Law School
Shareholder Preferences and Corporate Behavior
Speaker(s)
Columbia Law School
Shareholder Engagement Inside and Outside the Shareholder Meeting
Speaker(s)
Monash University
Break
Session 2
Moderator
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
The Long-Term and the Short-Term Versus the Engaged and the Exiting Shareholder
Speaker(s)
Tilburg University
Governing Through Votes: Shareholder Responses to Major Environmental and Social Incidents
Speaker(s)
UNSW School of Business, University of New South Wales
Climate and Human Rights Activists Turning Themselves into Shareholders
Speaker(s)
University of Ghent
Break
Session 3
Moderator
Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies
Fiduciary Law and the Modern Corporation
Speaker(s)
BYU Law School
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Hostile Bids Regime in Europe, 2004-2023
Speaker(s)
Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies
Day 1 Concludes
Tuesday, 05 November 2024 | 09:00 - 11:30 CET
Session 4
Moderator
Vanderbilt University Law School
The Overlooked Reality of Shareholder Activism in China: Defying Western Expectations
Speaker(s)
Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law
The Interests of the Shareholders
Speaker(s)
University of Auckland
Break
Session 5
Moderator
Temple University
The Business Judgment Rule in Brazil
Speaker(s)
Godke Law
The Directive 2004/25/EC on Takeover Bids – An Academic Reflection
Speaker(s)
Trinity College Dublin
End of Conference
Speakers
Margaret Blair
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise
Vanderbilt University Law School
Research Member
Blanaid Clarke
McCann Fitzgerald Chair of Corporate Law
Trinity College Dublin
Representative Member
Luca Enriques
Professor of Business Law
Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies
Board Member, Fellow, Research Member
Ronald Masulis
Scientia Professor in Finance
UNSW School of Business, University of New South Wales
Research Member
Susan Watson
Dean, University of Auckland Business School, Professor of Law, University of Auckland Faculty of Law
University of Auckland
Research Member
Presentations
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Climate and Human Rights Activists Turning Themselves into Shareholders
Speaker(s)
University of Ghent -
Fiduciary Law and the Modern Corporation
Speaker(s)
BYU Law School -
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Hostile Bids Regime in Europe, 2004-2023
Speaker(s)
Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies -
The Overlooked Reality of Shareholder Activism in China: Defying Western Expectations
Speaker(s)
Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law -
The Interests of the Shareholders
Speaker(s)
University of Auckland -
The Business Judgment Rule in Brazil
Speaker(s)
Godke Law -
The Directive 2004/25/EC on Takeover Bids – An Academic Reflection
Speaker(s)
Trinity College Dublin -
Shareholder Litigation in Delaware: An Empirical Investigation
Speaker(s)
Duke Law School -
Shareholder Preferences and Corporate Behavior
Speaker(s)
Columbia Law School -
Shareholder Engagement Inside and Outside the Shareholder Meeting
Speaker(s)
Monash University -
The Long-Term and the Short-Term Versus the Engaged and the Exiting Shareholder
Speaker(s)
Tilburg University -
Governing Through Votes: Shareholder Responses to Major Environmental and Social Incidents
Speaker(s)
UNSW School of Business, University of New South Wales
A tribute to Professor Randall Thomas
Professor Randall Thomas
Professor Randall Thomas
Randall Thomas has earned a reputation of being one of the most productive and thoughtful corporate and securities law scholars in the nation. He is the John S. Beasley II Professor of Law and Business, Director of Law & Business Program at Vanderbilt Law School and
Professor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management.
Organised by
Jennifer Hill
Monash University
Dan Puchniak
Singapore Management University
Umakanth Varottil
National University of Singapore
Susan Watson
University of Auckland