Law and Capital Markets @ Ohio State Tax Colloquium series presents Nancy Staudt, Edward G. Lewis Chair in Law and Public Policy, and Academic Director, The Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, USC Gould School of Law.

Nancy Staudt, a nationally renowned tax and tax policy scholar, joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in summer 2011. She is the inaugural holder of the Edward G. Lewis Chair in Law and Public Policy. Staudt also holds an appointment as a professor of law and public policy at the USC Price School of Public Policy. In August 2012, Staudt was appointed academic director of the newly established Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy.

Staudt has authored and edited books as well as over thirty articles, and is a frequent speaker on taxation topics to both legal and scholarly audiences. Staudt has published extensively on the tax and tax policymaking decisions that take place in both the legislative and judicial branches of government, including the recent The Judicial Power of the Purse: How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis (Chicago University Press 2011). She is in the process of completing a book with two colleagues on the “Judicial Business Cycle,” which examines how and why economic conditions affect judges’ votes and case outcomes, and is finishing a project on the application of judicial anti-abuse doctrines in the corporate tax shelter context. In addition to her extensive list of publications, Staudt is the recipient of numerous awards, including a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build a Supreme Court database for use by law and social scientists, with USC Law Prof. Lee Epstein and three others.Staudt holds a B.A. from Ohio State University, a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago. Staudt previously was the Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law at Northwestern University. Before joining Northwestern, Staudt served as professor of law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Mo., and the University of Buffalo School of Law. She has held visiting professorships at top law schools such as Vanderbilt University and Boston University as well as been a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Prior to her academic appointments, she was a tax associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, Calif., and she clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and provided free legal services to battered women and organizations filing for tax-exempt status.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12th
11:15-12:30     Registration and Lunch (Saxbe Auditorium)
12:30-12:45     Opening Remarks
12:45-1:45       Keynote Address: The AIG Story – Lawrence A. Cunningham (The George Washington University Law School)

1:45-2:00       Break

2:00-4:00       Concurrent Panels (Rooms 245 & 251)

Panel A:  Current Topics in Mergers & Acquisitions (Room 245)
Moderator and Discussant:  Michael B. Dorff (Southwestern Law School)

• Steven M. Davidoff (The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law), Lock-Up Creep
• Charles Korsmo (Case Western Reserve University School of Law) & Minor Myers (Brooklyn Law School), The Law & Economics of Merger Litigation:  Do the Merits Matter in Shareholder Appraisal?
• Charles Korsmo (Case Western Reserve University School of Law) & Minor Myers (Brooklyn Law School), Rethinking the Appraisal Remedy
• Christina M. Sautter (Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center), Refurbishing the Family Jewels: The Reemergence and Modernization of Crown Jewel Lock-Ups

Panel B:  Securities Regulation:  Theory & Practice (Room 251)
Moderator and Discussant:  Barbara Black (University of Cincinnati College of Law)

• Kelli A. Alces (Florida State University College of Law), Legal Diversification
• Eric C. Chaffee (The University of Toledo College of Law), The Internationalization of Insider Trading Regulation: The Search for a Coherent Governing Principles
• Wendy Gerwick Couture (University of Idaho College of Law), The Collision Between the First Amendment and Securities Fraud
• Zachary Gubler (Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law), The Uncertainty-Based Model of Securities Regulation: Theory and Implications

4:00-4:15       Break (coffee in hallway between Rooms 245 and 251)

4:15-5:15       Concurrent Panels (Rooms 245 & 251)

Panel A: Exploring Shareholder Litigation (Room 245)
Moderator and Discussant:  Elizabeth Pollman (Loyola Law School Los Angeles)

• Jessica Erickson (University of Richmond School of Law), The Market for Leadership in Shareholder Litigation
• Ann M. Scarlett (Saint Louis University School of Law), Analyzing Shareholder Derivative Litigation’s Historical and Normative Foundation

Panel B:  The Past, Present, and Future of Financial Self-Regulatory Institutions (Room 251)
Moderator and Discussant:  Eric C. Chaffee (The University of Toledo College of Law)

• William A. Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent College of Law), Becoming the Fifth Branch
• Barbara Black (University of Cincinnati College of Law), FINRA and the Retail Investor

6:00-7:30       Reception – Till Dynamic Fare, 247 King Ave, Columbus, OH 43201 (http://www.tillfare.com/)

THURSDAY, JUNE 13th
8:30-9:00       Breakfast (Faculty Lounge, Room 314)

9:00-10:30     Concurrent Panels (Rooms 245 & 251)

Panel A: Exploring Financial Crisis Fixes (Room 245)
Moderator and Discussant:  Caroline M. Gentile (Fordham University School of Law)

• David Min (UC Irvine School of Law), Is Market Discipline in Banking Procyclical?
• Brent J. Horton (Fordham University Gabelli School of Business), Toward A More Perfect Substitute: How Pressure On The Issuers Of Private-Label Mortgage-Backed Securities Can Improve The Accuracy Of Ratings
• Rob Weber (University of Tulsa College of Law), Stress as a Tool of Financial Regulation

Panel B:  Understanding the Corporate Form (Room 251)
Moderator and Discussant:  Steven M. Davidoff (The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law)

• Michael B.Dorff (Southwestern Law School), Performance Pay Mythology: The Trouble With CEO Pay
• Elizabeth Pollman (Loyola Law School Los Angeles), Corporations and the Right to Privacy
• Paul Rose (The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law), Shareholder Voting and the Shift to ‘Positive’ Corporate Governance

10:30-10:45     Break

10:45-12:15     Concurrent Panels (Rooms 245 & 251)

Panel A: Banking and Financial Regulation (Room 245)
Moderator and Discussant:  Shruti Rana  (University of Maryland Francis King Carey Shcool of Law) 

• David Groshoff (Western State College of Law), Kickstarter my Heart: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowdfunding Restrictions and Bitcoin Bubbles
• John Crawford (University of California Hastings College of the Law), Crisis Simulation and Regulator Expertis
• Shruti Rana (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law), Microcredit: Money, myth, and Morality

Panel B:  Emerging Issues in Business Law (Room 251)
Moderator and Discussant:  Jacob Kreutzer (University of Dayton School of Law)

• Peter Molk (University of Illinois College of Law), Explaining the Lack of Cooperatives
• John White (United States Coast Guard Academy), Market Reactions to Changes in the Legal Status of Gay Marriage: An Event Study Analysis

12:15 - 1:15     Lunch (Faculty Lounge, Room 314)

1:15 – 3:30       Concurrent Panels (Rooms 245 & 251)

Panel A: Selected Topics on Corporate Bankruptcy Under Chapter 11 (Room 245)
Moderator and Discussant:  Jared A. Ellias (Stanford Law School)

• Kara J. Bruce (The University of Toledo College of Law), The Debtor Class
• Diane Lourdes Dick (Seattle University School of Law), Chapter 11′s Corporate Tax Loophole
• Jared A. Ellias (Stanford Law School), Do Activist Investors Constrain Managerial Moral Hazard in Chapter 11?:  Evidence from Junior Activist Investing
• Pamela Foohey (University of Illinois College of Law), Bankrupting the Fait

Panel B1 (1:15 – 2:15):  Business, Law & Economics (Room 251)
Moderator and Discussant:  Peter Molk (University of Illinois College of Law)

• Jordan Barry (University of San Diego School of Law), The Coase Theorem and Voluntary Transaction Costs
• Stefan J. Padfield (University of Akron School of Law), An Introduction to Law & Socio-Economics, With Particular Application to Corporation

Panel B2 (1:15 – 2:15): Selected Topics in White Collar Crime (Room 251)
Moderator and Discussant: Wendy Gerwick Couture (University of Idaho College of Law)

• Saby Ghoshray (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies), Knowledge Requirement in the FCPA Jurisprudence Post-Bourke: Resuscitating Mens Rea while Reformatting Willful Blindness and Conscious Avoidance Doctrines
• Gregory M. Gilchrist (The University of Toledo College of Law), The Special Problem of Banks and Crime

3:00-3:45       Closing Remarks (Room 245)

Please title the email “NBLSC Submission – {Name}”. If you would like to attend, but not present, email Professor Chaffee with an email entitled “NBLSC Attendance”. Please specify in your email whether you are willing to serve as a commentator or moderator. A conference schedule will be circulated in early June.

Schedule
Papers Presented
Conference Participants

Map / Parking and Directions

The National Business Law Scholars Conference (NBLSC), formerly known as the Midwest Corporate Legal Scholars Conference, will be held on Wednesday, June 12th and Thursday, June 13th at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio. This is the fourth annual meeting of the NBLSC. We welcome all on-topic submissions and will attempt to provide the opportunity for everyone to actively participate. We will also attempt to assign a commentator for each paper presented. Junior scholars are especially encouraged participate.

To submit a presentation, email Professor Eric C. Chaffee at echaffee1@udayton.edu with an abstract or paper by May 31, 2013. Please title the email “NBLSC Submission – {Name}”. If you would like to attend, but not present, email Professor Chaffee with an email entitled “NBLSC Attendance”. Please specify in your email whether you are willing to serve as a commentator or moderator. A conference schedule will be circulated in early June.

Conference Organizers: Barbara Black, Eric C. Chaffee and Steven M. Davidoff 

February 21, 2012

Douglas L. Williams is Senior Vice President, General Counsel of the Limited Brands. In his talk, Mr. Williams discussed corporate governance, differences between in-house counsel and private practice, M&A issues, and answered questions from the audience. View photos of the event here.

Prior to joining Limited Brands in 1998, Williams was a partner in the Columbus office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP and a partner before that at the firm of Schwartz, Kelm, Warren & Rubenstein. He has a rich background in the areas of employment discrimination and wrongful discharge litigation and has advised companies on human resources and equal employment opportunity issues.

Williams also is a former assistant professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and is a faculty member of the American Law Institute – American Bar Association.

January 25, 2012

Co-sponsors: Law and Capital Markets @ Ohio State and Moritz College of Law Business Law Society

Rocky Robins is Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Before joining Abercrombie, Mr. Robins was a Partner at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, and an Associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Robins served as a Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Milton Pollack of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Robins earned a BA in history at Duke University and a JD from Harvard Law School.