16th Annual Law and Business Conference Vanderbilt Law School
This Conference was part of a larger project on Shareholder Power arising out of a collaboration between the National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Law & Business and the Vanderbilt University Law and Business Program.
The Conference aimed to bring together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the issue of Shareholder Power from a variety of perspectives.
Programme
Thursday, 26 September 2013
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Introductory Remarks: Dean Chris Guthrie
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Commenting on Margaret Blair, "Reframing the Role of Boards of Directors Under a Team Production Model"
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Commenting on: Robert Thompson, "The Power of Shareholders"
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Commenting on: Jennifer Hill, "Images of the Shareholder"
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Break
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Commenting on: Ronald Gilson/Jeff Gordon, "Agency Capitalism"
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Commenting on: Colin Mayer, "Conceiving Corporate Commitment: Creation and Confirmation"
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Lunch
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Commenting on: Frank Partnoy, "U.S. Hedge Fund Activism"
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Commenting on: Guido Ferrarini/Marilena Filippelli, "Independent Directors and Control Shareholders"
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Commenting on: Dan Puchniak, "Multiple Faces of Shareholder Power in Asia: Complexity Revealed"
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Commenting on: Edelman/Thomas, "Theory and Practice of Corporate Voting at U.S. Public Companies
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Commenting on: James Cox, "Whose Law is it? Battling Over Turf in Shareholder Litigation"
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Friday, 27 September 2013
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Commenting on: Fabrizio Ferri, "Say on Pay"
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Commenting on: Paul Davies, "Shareholders in the United Kingdom"
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Commenting on: Erica Gorga, "Do Shareholders Have Power in Brazil? Current Problems in Corporate Governance after a Decade from the "Novo Mercado" Phenomenon"
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Break
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Commenting on: Luca Enriques/Massimo Belcredi, "Institutional Investor Activism in a Context of Concentrated Ownership and High Private Benefits of Control: The Case of Italy"
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Commenting on: Harwell Wells, "Shareholder Power in America: A Short History"
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Lunch
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Commenting on: Luh Luh Lan/Umakanth Varottil, "Shareholder Empowerment in Controlled Companies: The Case of Singapore"
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Commenting on Christian Hoffman, "A Comparative Analysis of Reflective Shareholder Loss"
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Break
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Commenting on: Pradeep Yadav, "Ownership Structure, Management Control and Agency Costs"
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Speakers
Colin Mayer
Emeritus Professor of Management Studies
Blavatnik School of Government and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Fellow,
Research Member
Paul Davies
Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law; Senior Research Fellow
University of Oxford
Fellow,
Research Member
Guido Ferrarini
Professor of Business Law and Capital Markets Law
University of Genoa
Fellow,
Research Member
Ronald Gilson
Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business
Columbia Law School & Stanford Law 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
Jennifer G. Hill
Bob Baxt AO Chair in Corporate and Commercial Law
Monash University
Research Member
Margaret Blair
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise
Vanderbilt University Law School
Research Member