2019 Tulane Corporate and Securities Law Roundtable

8:30-9:45         Disparate Impact and the Impact of Disparateness

Discussant: Ann Lipton (Tulane)

• Afra Afsharipour (UC Davis), Women and M&A
• Kristin Johnson (Tulane), Regulating Algorithmic Bias

9:45-11:15       Finding the Fraud                         Discussant: Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt)

• Sean Griffith (Fordham), Frequent Filers: Repeat Claimants in Disclosure-Based Shareholder Suits
• Joshua Mitts (Columbia), Short and Distort
• Urska Velikonja (Georgetown), Securities Enforcement After Kokesh

11:15-11:30     Break

11:30-1:00       50 Shades of Publicness                         Discussant: Robert Thompson (Georgetown)

• Summer Kim (UC Irvine), Consumers as Owners of Contemporary Firms
• Ann Lipton (Tulane), Not Everything is About Investors: The Case for Mandatory Stakeholder Disclosure
• Usha Rodrigues (Georgia), The Eroding Public/Private Distinction in Securities Law

1:00-2:00         Lunch

2:00-3:30         Voting Matters

Discussant: Afra Afsharipour (UC Davis)

• Albert Choi (Virginia), Shareholder Voting on Golden Parachutes
• James Cox (Duke) & Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt), Understanding the (Ir)Relevance Of Shareholder Votes On M&A Deals

• Edward Rock (NYU), Index Funds and Corporate Governance: Let Shareholders Be Shareholders

3:30-3:45         Break

3:45-5:00         Managing What You Measure

Discussant: Sean Griffith (Fordham)

• Claire Hill (Minnesota), The Role of Agency Costs in Labor Cost Minimization: A Research Agenda
• James Park (UCLA), Do the Securities Laws Promote Short-Termism?