My pal Ann Lipton–corporate governance and securities law expert and blogger extraordinaire over at BLPB–is organizing a conference at Tulane Law School today on the topic of “Navigating Federalism in Corporate and Securities Law.” It looked so interesting that I had to leave Henry Ordower and Kerry Ryan’s fabulous Critical Issues in Comparative and International Taxation: Taxation and Migration Conference a day early to crash her party! I’ve been auditing Securities Regulation and very much feeling like a little duckling in the securities/corporate world all semester, so I’m really looking forward to sitting in on an unfamiliar conversation. I always find that “cross-training” in other fields gives me fresh perspectives on my own work.

Here is the schedule. Some of these papers are really interesting!

The Problem of Large Shareholders
(Discussant: Urska Velikonja)

• Robert Jackson (Columbia), Activist Directors and Information Leakage
• Edward Rock (NYU), Defusing the Antitrust Threat to Institutional Investor Involvement in Corporate Governance
  

The Problem of Small Shareholders
(Discussant: Ann Lipton)

• Jill Fisch (Penn), Advance Voting Instructions: Tapping the Voice of the Excluded Retail Investor
• J.W. Verret (George Mason), Uber-ized Corporate Law

What Can States Regulate?
(Discussant: Jill Fisch)

• Kent Greenfield (Boston College), Corporate Power and Campaign Finance
• Summer Kim (Irvine), Corporate Long Arms

The Line Between Corporate Law and Securities Law
(Discussant: James Cox)

• Ann Lipton (Tulane), Reviving Reliance
• James Park (UCLA), Delaware and Santa Fe
• Robert Thompson (Georgetown), Delaware’s Dominance: A Peculiar Illustration of American Federalism

The Operation of the SEC
(Discussant: James Park)

• James Cox (Duke), Revolving Elites: Assessing Capture in the SEC
• Urska Velikonja (Emory), Admissions in Public Enforcement