Law & Finance Seminar Series

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