Navigating Federalism in Corporate and Securities Law

8:30‐9:45 The Problem of Large Shareholders
Discussant: Urska Velikonja

• Robert Jackson (Columbia), Activist Directors and Information Leakage
• Edward Rock (NYU), Defusing the Antitrust Threat to Institutional Investor Involvement in Corporate Governance

9:45‐11:00 The Problem of Small Shareholders
Discussant: Ann Lipton

• Jill Fisch (Penn), Advance Voting Instructions: Tapping the Voice of the Excluded Retail Investor
• J.W. Verret (Scalia), Crowdfunding

11:00‐11:15 Break

11:15‐12:30 What Can States Regulate?
Discussant: Jill Fisch

• Kent Greenfield (Boston College), Corporate Power and Campaign Finance
• Summer Kim (Irvine), Corporate Long Arms

12:30‐1:45 Lunch

1:45‐3:15 The Line Between Corporate Law and Securities Law
Discussant: James Cox

• Ann Lipton (Tulane), Reviving Reliance
• James Park (UCLA), Delaware and Santa Fe
• Robert Thompson (Georgetown), Delaware’s Dominance: A Peculiar Illustration of American Federalism

3:15‐3:30 Break

3:30‐4:45 The Operation of the SEC
Discussant: James Park

• James Cox (Duke), Revolving Elites: Assessing Capture in the SEC
• Urska Velikonja (Emory), Admissions in Public Enforcement