Key takeaways
The Business Law Workshop is led by Professor Andrew Verstein.
Workshop Speakers
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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"
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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"
UCLA Law Professor Daniel Bussel and Thomas E. Patterson will discuss the issue before the Supreme Court in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.: Whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by nondebtors against nondebtor third parties, without the claimants’ consent. Professor Bussel and Mr. Patterson are partners in KTBS Law LLP, a premier nationwide boutique law firm focusing on business and municipal bankruptcy and restructuring, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This activity qualifies for 1 hour(s) of general MCLE credit.
This event is sponsored by Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy and UCLA School of Law. This is a private event, open to UCLA School of Law students, faculty and invited guests. For questions, please email lowellmilkeninstitute@law.ucla.edu.
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