The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law invites you to the 2022-2023 Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable.
* Please register5 by Tuesday, November 22, 2022.
** Breakfast and lunch will be provided. New York State CLE credits will be available, as described further below.
*** Papers and readings for the afternoon program will be posted on the Center's website6 by Friday, November 18, 2022.
Morning Program | |
9:00 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Registration. |
9:55 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. | Welcome by Roberta Romano7 '80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law. |
10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. | Paper Presentation I: “Why SPACs: An Apologia8” by Usha Rodrigues9, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and University Professor, University of Georgia, and M.E. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law, University of Georgia School of Law. Discussants: Charles W. Allen10, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Michael Klausner11 '81, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. Moderator: Sven Riethmueller12, YLS Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic, and Robert Todd Lang '47 Entrepreneurship Fellow. |
11:20 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. | Coffee Break. |
11:35 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. | Paper Presentation II: “Protecting the Sovereign’s Money Monopoly13” by Gary B. Gorton14, Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management & Finance, Yale School of Management. Discussants: Barry Eichengreen15, George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley and Daniel K. Tarullo16, Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice, Harvard Law School. Moderator: Roberta Romano7 '80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law. |
Afternoon Program | |
12:55 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lunch. |
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. | Afternoon Discussion on Sustainable Investing. Keynote remarks on The Economics of Climate Change by William Nordhaus17, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor in the School of the Environment, Yale University. Panel Discussion: “Is Sustainable Investing Sustainable?” with Ulrich Atz18, Research Fellow, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business; Jill E. Fisch19 '85, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; and Robert H. Sitkoff20, Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law and John L. Gray Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Moderator: Nancy Liao21 '05, John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law and YLS Senior Research Scholar in 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 (Why SPACs: An Apologia) from 10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.;
- 1.5 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of Paper Presentation II (Protecting the Sovereign’s Money Monopoly) from 11:35 a.m. to 12:55 p.m.; and
- 2.0 CLE credit hours in Professional Practice for attending the entirety of the Afternoon Discussion (Sustainable Investing) from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 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. 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. CLE reading materials have been posted on the Center’s website22.
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law