Shu Yi Oei
I’m happy to announce that we have a couple of workshop series happening at BC Law School this academic year. I’m really quite excited about these. Because what’s life without a workshop?
Tax Policy Workshops & Roundtable…
Boston College Law School has run a Tax Policy Workshop Series since 2007. This fall, we continue in that tradition, with speakers Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Ruth Mason (UVA), Zachary Liscow (Yale), and Lily Batchelder (NYU) presenting papers.
BC Law and Tulane Law are also hosting a joint BC-Tulane Tax Roundtable on March 23, 2018. More info about that coming soon.
…and a New Regulation and Markets Workshop Series!
In addition, here’s something a bit fun: Some BC Law colleagues and I have started a new workshop series, focusing on Regulation, Markets, and Business. This multidisciplinary workshop series focuses on the study of regulatory approaches to markets and business. It investigates how such economic regulation should be designed in order to balance the interests of various constituencies. It also explores how traditional approaches to regulation compare, contrast, and intersect with emerging methodologies.
We’ll feature presentations by invited legal scholars of their works-in-progress. The hope is to create opportunities for scholars working on issues of economic regulation to discuss and present their research in a forum of academics working in related intellectual spaces. The workshop is offered to Boston College JD and LLM students as a 1-credit seminar.
Here’s the 2017-18 slate:
FALL 2017
September 12, 2017 – Saule Omarova (Cornell): “Private Wealth and Public Goods: A Case for a National Investment Authority”
September 26, 2017 – Rory Van Loo (Boston University): “Consumer Law as Tax Alternative”
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 – William Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent): “Free Funds: Retirement Saving as Public Infrastructure”
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 – Cary Martin Shelby (DePaul): “The Role of Competition in the Regulation of Investment Funds”
Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 12:15 pm – Lily Batchelder (NYU), co-sponsored with Tax Policy Workshop: “The Shaky Case for a Business Cash-Flow Tax”
SPRING 2018
January 30, 2018 – Ann Lipton (Tulane): “”Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Appraisal and the Problem of Shareholder Heterogeneity”
February 27, 2018 – Jeff Schwartz (Utah): “De Facto Shareholder Primacy”
March 20, 2018 – Candice Player (Northwestern): “Death with Dignity”
April 10, 2018 – Jill Fisch (Penn): TBD
April 24, 2018 – Elizabeth Pollman (Loyola-LA): “The Private First Amendment: Corporate-Made Public Law”
If you’re a Boston area academic and would like to join us for any of these events, please let me know!
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