Each spring semester, the center hosts the Law & Finance Seminar Series, which assembles a prestigious group of scholars to discuss their academic works in the fields of law and finance.
Fall 2024 Presentations:
October 10, 2024
12:00 - 1:20PM
Bankruptcy Goes Private
NYU Stern School of Business, Room KMC M4-90
Michael Simkovic - USC Gould School of Law
Spring 2024 Presentations:
April 9, 2024
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, Room KMC M5-90
Zohar Goshen - Columbia Law School
April 25, 2024
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, Room KMC M4-90
Jeffrey Coles - David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
May 2, 2024
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, Room KMC M4-90
Fabian Schar - University of Basel, Faculty of Business and Economics
Spring 2023 Presentations:
March 9, 2023
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, Room KMC M3-130
Marc Arnold - University of St. Gallen, School of Finance
March 23, 2023
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, Room KMC M3-130
Quinn Curtis - University of Virginia School of Law
April 6, 2023
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, Room KMC M4-90
Luigi Zingales - The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
May 11, 2023
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, Room KMC M3-90
Todd Henderson - The University of Chicago Law School
Spring 2020 Presentations:
February 27, 2020
12:00 - 1:20PM
On the Origins of the Market for Corporate Law
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC M4-90
Sarath Sanga - Northwestern Law School
Spring 2019 Presentations:
February 7, 2019
12:00 - 1:20PM
The Strategies of Anticompetitive Common Ownership
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC M4-90
Marcel Kahan - NYU School of Law, and Scott Hemphill - NYU School of Law
February 28, 2019
12:00 - 1:20PM
Golden Parachutes and the Limits of Shareholder Voting
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC M4-90
Albert Choi - University of Virginia School of Law
April 11, 2019
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC M5-50
Passive Asset Management, Securities Lending and Stock Prices
Darius Palia - Rutgers Business School
**Note, different location than previous events.
April 18, 2019
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC M4-90
Short and Report
Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos - Carroll School of Management, Boston College
May 2, 2019
12:00 - 1:20PM
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC M4-110
Lethality of Managerial Resistance in Hostile Bids
Pradeep Yadav - Price College of Business, Division of Finance, The University of Oklahoma and Visiting Research Professor at NYU Stern School of Business
Fall 2018 Presentations:
November 1, 2018
12:00pm - 1:00PM
Endogenous Control Rights: Covenant Defeasance in Corporate Bonds
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC M4-90
Zsuzsanna Fluck - Department of Finance, Michigan State University
Spring 2018 Presentations:
February 8, 2018
12:00 - 1:20PM
The Difficulty of Being Good: The Efficacy of Integrity Hotlines
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC M4-90
Eugene Soltes - Harvard Business School
March 8, 2018
12:00 - 1:20PM
Lawyer CEOs
NYU Stern School of Business, 4-110
Todd Henderson - The University of Chicago Law School
April 5, 2018
12:00 - 1:20PM
The Hausmann-Gorky Effect
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 4-90
Mitu Gulati - Duke Law School
April 26, 2018
12:00 - 1:20PM
Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 4-90
Jiasun Li - George Mason University Business School
Spring 2017 Presentations:
March 2, 2017
12:00 - 1:20PM
The Impact of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India’s Companies Act of 2013
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 3-65
Vikramaditya Khanna - University of Michigan Law School
March 9, 2017
12:00 - 1:20PM
In Search of Board Independence: Former Employees, Shades of Gray and Director Classifications Revisited
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 3-65
Jongsub Lee -Warrington College of Business, University of Florida
April 13, 2017
12:00 - 1:20PM
Contracting Out of the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Opportunity Waivers
Technical Companion piece to the paper presented: A Machine Learning Classifier for Corporate Opportunity Waivers
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 3-65
Eric Talley - Columbia Law School
April 20, 2017
12:00 - 1:20PM
Are Shareholder Votes Rigged?
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 2-90
Daniel Metzger - Stockholm School of Economics
Fall 2016 Presentations:
February 25, 2016
12:00 - 1:20PM
Equity Issuances and Agency Costs: The Telling Story of Shareholder Approval around the World
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 2-65
Clifford G. Holderness - Boston College Carroll School of Management
March 24th, 2016
12:00 - 1:20PM
Revitalizing SEC Rule 14a-8’s Ordinary Business Exemption: Preventing Shareholder Micromanagement by Proposal (Draft)
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 2-65
Stephen Bainbridge - UCLA School of Law
April 7th, 2016
12:00 - 1:20PM
Do Courts Matter for Firm Value? Evidence from the U.S. Court System
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 2-65
Christoph Herpfer - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
April 21st, 2016
12:00 - 1:20PM
The Buyers’ Perspective on Security Design: Hedge Funds and Convertible Bond Call Provisions
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 2-65
Patrick Verwijmeren - Erasmus Research Institute of Management
April 28th, 2016
12:00 - 1:20PM
The Heavy Costs of High Bail: Evidence from Judge Randomization
NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 2-65
Arpit Gupta - Columbia Business School