2021-2022 Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable

Apr. 22, 2022
9:00AM - 2:00PM
Online; Please register.
Open to the Yale Community

The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law invites you to the 2021-2022 Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable.

* Papers and readings for the afternoon program will be posted on the Center's website by Friday, April 8, 2022.

** New York State CLE credits will be available, as described further below.

*** The Roundtable will be in the form of a Zoom webinar.  Please register by Friday, April 15, 2022 at this link, and please indicate whether you would like CLE credit. You will receive a confirmation email within two business days after your registration.

Program

9:00 a.m. to 9:05 a.m.

Welcome by Heather Gerken, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School.

9:05 a.m. to 10:25 a.m.

Paper Presentation I: “Liquidity Restrictions, Runs, and Central Bank Interventions: Evidence from Money Market Funds” by Marco Macchiavelli, Senior Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Division of Research and Statistics, Short-Term Funding Markets Section.

Discussants: Stephen Choi, Bernard Petrie Professor of Law and Business Director, Pollack Center, New York University School of Law and Andrew Metrick, Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management, Yale School of Management.

Moderator: Jonathan Macey, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law. 

10:25 a.m. to 10:35 a.m.

Break.

10:35 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.

Paper Presentation II: “Banks, Corporatism, and Collaboration in the Administrative State” by David Zaring, Elizabeth F. Putzel Professor and Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania.

Discussants: Sarah Binder, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution and Richard L. Revesz, AnBryce Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, New York University School of Law.

Moderator: Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. 

11:55 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Break.

12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Mutual Fund Regulation: A Reevaluation.

Panel discussion with Campbell Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business, Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business; John D. Morley, YLS Professor of Law; and Adriana Z. Robertson, The Honourable Justice Frank Iacobacci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and YLS Visiting Associate Professor of Law.

Remarks by William Birdthistle, Director, Division of Investment Management, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Moderator: Roberta Romano, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law.

  • CLE Credit

Yale Law School has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of CLE programs. The following credits are available:

  • 1.5 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of Paper Presentation I (Liquidity Restrictions, Runs, and Central Bank Interventions: Evidence from Money Market Funds) from 9:05 a.m. to 10:25 a.m.;
  • 1.5 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of Paper Presentation II (Banks, Corporatism, and Collaboration in the Administrative State) from 10:35 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.; and
  • 2.0 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of “Mutual Fund Regulation: A Reevaluation” (including both the Panel Discussion and the Remarks) from 12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The above CLE credit hours are appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Preregistration is required for CLE credit; please tell us whether you would like CLE credit when you register for the Zoom webinar. You must be present for the entirety of the paper presentation or afternoon discussion to receive CLE credit for that presentation or discussion; we cannot give CLE credit for partial presentation or discussion attendance. We intend to post CLE reading materials on the Center’s website (https://ccl.yale.edu/activities/roundtables) no later than Friday, April 8, 2022. If you register for CLE credit, you will receive the requisite attorney affirmations and CLE evaluation forms by close of business on Thursday, April 21, 2022. 

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law