Conference Description
April 17-18, 2015
During this two-day interdisciplinary conference, scholars from law, business, sociology, economics, and psychology presented original papers on corporate crime and securities fraud. The papers have been published in the Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing (Jennifer Arlen '86 ed., Edward Elgar Press). Conference participants included: Jennifer Arlen, Cindy Alexander, Miriam Baer, Samuel Buell, Stephen Choi, Mark Cohen, Kevin Davis, David Engstrom, Vic Khanna, Michael Klausner, Geoffrey Miller, Adam Pritchard, Sally Simpson, Tina Soreide, Matthew Stephenson, and Tom Tyler.
Conference Agenda [PDF: 261.45 KB]
Keynote Speakers:
Leslie Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, US Department of Justice (Lunch)
Honorable Jed Rakoff, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York (Dinner)
Presentations and Panels:
Friday, Apil 17, 2015
Panel 1: Causes of Corporate Crime
Moderator: William Laufer, Julian Aresty Professor, Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
- Causes of Corporate Crime
Mark Cohen, Justin Potter Professor of American Competitive Enterprise & Professor of Law, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
Sally Simpson, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland
Discussant: Thomas Miles, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law & Economics and Walter Mander Research Scholar, University of Chicago Law School - Psychology and the Deterrence of Corporate Crime
Tom Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School
Discussant: Janice Nadler, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Panel 2: Individual Sanctions and Influence
Moderator: J. J. Prescott, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
- Criminally Bad Management
Samuel Buell, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Discussant: Daniel Richman, Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law, Columbia Law School - Do Influential General Counsels Influence the Incidence of Fraud?
Vikramaditya Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Discussant: Alexander Dyck, Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Keynote Speaker:
Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Pollack Center Project on Securities Fraud Litigation
Panel 3: Public and Private Liability for Securities Fraud
Moderator: Emiliano Catan LLM ’10, Assistant Professor, NYU School of Law
- Modes of SEC Enforcement: Corporate, Individual and Gatekeeper Liability
Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Visiting Professor, NYU School of Law
Discussant: Marcel Kahan, George T. Lowy Professor of Law, NYU School of Law - Securities Law and Its Enforcers
Stephen Choi, Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law, Director, Pollack Center for Law & Business, NYU School of Law
Adam Pritchard, Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Discussant: David Webber, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law
Panel 4: Regulation of Foreign Public Corruption
Moderator: Andy Spalding, Associate Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
- Political Economy for Foreign Corruption
Matthew Stephenson, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Discussant: Rachel Brewster, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law - Multijurisdictional Enforcement Games
Kevin Davis, Vice Dean and Beller Family Professor of Business Law, NYU School of Law
Discussant: Paul Lagunes, Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Columbia University - Corruption in State Administration
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science), Yale Law School
Tina Søreide, Researcher in Law and Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway
Discussant: Jean Ensminger, Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Science, California Institute of Technology
Keynote Speaker:
Honorable Jed S. Rakoff, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Panel 1: Corporate Crime: Compliance and Reputation
Moderator: Antony Niblett, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
- Does Conviction Matter? The Reputational and Collateral Effects of Corporate Crime
Cindy Alexander, Research Fellow, Law and Economics Center, George Mason University
Jennifer Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, Faculty Co-Director Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, NYU School of Law
Discussant: Jonathan Karpoff, Professor of Finance, Foster School of Business, University of Washington - Corporate Compliance
Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, Faculty Co-Director, Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, NYU School of Law
Discussant: Jeffrey Gordon, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Panel 2: Private Investigation of Public Wrongs
Moderator: Kathleen Clark, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
- Civil Bounty Regimes
David Freeman Engstrom, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Discussant: Marcia Miceli, Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University - When the Corporation Investigates Itself
Miriam Baer, Professor of Law, Brooklyn School of Law
Discussant: Darryl Brown, O. M. Vicars Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law