Workshop Year 2023-2024

October 19, 2023

Christian Leuz, Charles F. Pohl Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Internalizing Externalities through Public Pressure: Transparency Regulation for Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling Activity and Water Quality” (with Pietro Bonetti and Giovanna Michelon). Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

November 2, 2023

Eric Talley, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, “Sex and Startups” (with Jens Frankenreiter and Talia Gillis). Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.

November 29, 2023

Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, Visiting Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong School of Law, “The Spectrum of Control: Unveiling Layers of State Influence in Chinese Firms.” Co-sponsored with The Paul Tsai China Center.

This Wasserman Workshop will cover four recent papers by Professor Lin, with a focus on China’s Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism?“ (with Curtis Milhaupt) and published in The China Quarterly and “Party Building or Noisy Signaling? The Contours of Political Conformity in Chinese Corporate Governance” (with Curtis Milhaupt) and published in the Journal of Legal Studies (available upon request).

February 1, 2024

Manisha Padi ‘17, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley School of Law, The Rise of Non-Banks in Servicing Household Debt“ (with Naser Hamdi, Erica Jiang, Brittany Almquist Lewis, and Avantika Pal). Co-sponsored with the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop.