Business Law Workshop

The Business Law Workshop is led by Professor Andrew Verstein.

Workshop Speakers

  • Fall 2025

    September 4
    Steven Solomon
    UC Berkeley School of Law

    September 11
    Peter Molk
    University of Florida

    September 18
    Geeyoung Min
    Michigan State University College of Law

    September 25
    Atinuke Adediran
    Fordham University School of Law

    October 2
    Brian Broughman
    Vanderbilt Law School

    October 9
    Mehrsa Baradaran
    UC Irvine School of Law

    October 16
    Ian Ayres
    Yale Law School

    October 28
    Ryan Bubb
    USC Gould School of Law

    November 6
    Roberto Tallarita
    Harvard Law School

    November 13
    Dorothy Lund and Eric Talley
    Columbia Law School

    November 20
    Elizabeth Pollman
    University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

    November 25
    Colleen Honigsberg
    Stanford Law School

     

  • Spring 2025

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    January 30
    Daniel Sokol
    USC Gould School of Law
    "Control Capture and Competition"

    February 6
    John Morley
    Yale Law School
    "Temporary Equity"

    February 13
    Ann Lipton
    Tulane University Law School
     "Legitimation of Shareholder Primacy"

    February 20
    Jeffery Zhang
    University of Michigan Law School
    "Shadow Banking and Securities Law"

    March 4
    Kevin Haeberle
    UCI School of Law
    "Securities Regulation's Liquidity Rationale"

    March 18
    Adam Pritchard
    University of Michigan Law School
    "SEC Rulemaking: An Empirical Analysis of Comments and Memoranda"

    April 1
    Vincent Buccola
    University of Chicago Law School
    "Market Terms"

    April 8
    Babette Boliek
    Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
    "Von's Grocery: Why Protecting 'Worthy Men' was Anti-Consumer and Anti-Women"

    April 15
    Danielle D'Onfro
    Washington University School of Law
    "Tortious Interference Revisited"

    April 17
    Sue Guan
    Santa Clara University School of Law
    "Copy Trading and the Rise of the Shadow Intermediary"

  • Spring 2024

    January 23
    Sarath Sanga
    Yale University Law School 
    "Delaware's Contractarian Turn: A Theory of Altering Rules for Corporate Law"

    January 25
    Aneil Kovvali
    Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law
    “Private Profits and Public Business”

    February 1
    Michael Simkovic
    USC Gould School of Law
    "Absolute Priority, Relative Priority, and Valuation Uncertainty in Bankruptcy"

    Febary 15
    Natalya Shnitser
    Boston College Law School
    "Overtaking Mutual Funds: The Hidden Rise and Risk of Collective Investment Trusts"

    February 20
    Caley Petrucci
    University of San Diego School of Law
    "The Dual-Class Duo: A Structural Analysis of Dual-Class Guardrails"

    February 27
    Anne Choike
    Michigan State University College of Law
    "Local Firm Governance"

    March 5
    Shawn Bayern
    Florida State University College of Law
    “Organizational Liability”

    March 7
    Eric Talley
    Columbia University Law School
    "Sex & Startups"

    March 12
    David Yosifon
    Santa Clara University School of Law
    "Escaping Bad Faith: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Delaware Corporate Law"

    April 4
    Mitu Gulati
    University of Virginia Law School
    “Diaspora Bonds: Patriotism or Investment?”

    April 9
    Lynn Bai
    University of Cincinnati College of Law
    "The SEC’s Stock Repurchase Reform: Much Ado About Nothing?"

    April 16
    Brook E. Gotberg
    Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School
    "The Bankruptcy Purpose of Solvent Debtors"

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