CANCELED - Nathan Lunch Series on Intellectual Property. 

P. Anthony Sammi, Global Vice Chair of Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and Vice Chair of the Technology Industry Group, Latham & Watkins LLP.

* Those who would like to hear from Tony Sammi are invited to join Intellectual Property: Working with Patents and Trade Secrets, which will meet from 2:10 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Please email Victoria Cundiff (victoria.cundiff@yale.edu), YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law and Center Fellow, before the class takes place to express your interest.  

CANCELED - Nathan Lunch Series on Intellectual Property. 

Katherine A. High, M.D.; Co-Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer Emerita, Spark Therapeutics; Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Emerita, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; and Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University.

* Those who would like to hear from Dr. High are invited to join Intellectual Property: Working with Patents and Trade Secrets, which will meet from 2:10 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Please email Victoria Cundiff (victoria.cundiff@yale.edu), YLS Visiting Lecturer in Law and Center Fellow, before the class takes place to express your interest.  

Nancy Liao ’05, Executive Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers.” Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society, the Career Development Office, and the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership.  

Nathan Lunch Series on Intellectual Property. 

Robert Greene Sterne, Founder and Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC and Warren Tuttle, Founder, Tuttle Innovation.

Nathan Lunch Series on Intellectual Property.

John F. Duffy, Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and Paul G. Mahoney Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School.

Jonathan Knee ‘88, YLS Visiting Professor of Law, Michael T. Fries Professor of Professional Practice of Media and Technology, Columbia Business School, and Senior Advisor, Evercore Inc., “Navigating a Career in Investment Banking.”  Co-sponsored with the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership and Yale Law & Business Society.  

Nancy Liao ’05, Executive Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers.” Co-sponsored by the Yale Law & Business Society, the Career Development Office, and the Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership.

Nancy Liao ‘05, Executive Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers.” Co-sponsored with Yale Law & Business Society and Career Development Office.

Nancy Liao ‘05, Executive Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers.” Co-sponsored with Yale Law & Business Society and Career Development Office.

Say H. Goo, Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, “Do stakeholder boards improve corporations’ societal efficiency?” Co-sponsored with the Paul Tsai China Center.

Ben Breier, Chief Executive Officer, Kindred Healthcare and Jeff Cohn, Managing Partner, Elevate Partners, “Inside the Mind of a Fortune 500 CEO Facing ‘Bet the Company’ Legal Challenges.” Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, the Office of Student Affairs, and Yale Law & Business Society.

Yun-chien Chang, Research Professor and Director of Center for Empirical Legal Studies, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica and Yu-Hsin Lin, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong School of Law, “Do State-Owned Enterprises Have Worse Corporate Governance? An Empirical Study of Corporate Practices in China.”  Co-sponsored with The Paul Tsai China Center.

Matt Levine ‘04, Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion, “Covering the Market: A Conversation with Finance Columnist Matt Levine ‘04.” Moderator: Emily Bazelon ‘00, YLS Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law.  Co-sponsored with the Knight Law and Media Program of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Coffee Chat with Vivek Ramaswamy ’13, CEO, Roivant Sciences, Inc. Part of the Many Paths Initiative by Dean Heather Gerken, and co-sponsored with the Career Development Office, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, and Yale Law & Business Society.

Roberta Romano ‘80, Sterling Professor of Law and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers.” Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society and the Career Development Office. 

Zenichi Shishido, Professor, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy and YLS Senior Research Scholar in Law, “Japanese Family Firms.”

Susanne Augenhofer LLM ‘03, Professor of Law, Humboldt University Berlin and YLS Associate Research Scholar, “Self-Regulation and the Interface of Consumer Protection and Corporate Governance.”

Gabriel D. Rosenberg ‘09, Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Lecturer in Finance, Yale School of Management, “Dodd-Frank’s Changes to the Financial Regulatory Landscape and Opportunities for Young Lawyers.” Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Gerard Hertig, Professor of Law, Swiss Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich and Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, “Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors in a Stakeholder World.”

Boris Feldman ‘80, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, “Settling Shareholder Suits.”  Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

John A. Levin ‘63, Chief Executive Officer, Levin Capital Strategies, LP, “Eight Proposed Rule Changes to Make National Securities Markets Less Unfair to the Public and Three Suggestions to Limit Activism to Help the Country.”  Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Shen Wei, Professor of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School and YLS Senior Research Scholar, “Is China Creating a New Business Order? - Rationalizing China’s Extraterritorial Efforts to Expand the Veil Piercing Doctrine.”        

Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers.” Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office.  

Michael J. Chepiga ‘79 and John P. (“Sean”) Coffey, Managing Directors, BlackRobe Capital Partners, LLC, “Third Party Financing of Corporate Litigation.”  Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Kesav Mohan, EVP and Legal Advisor of Bizlab, Inc., “How to Use a JD Outside of the Legal Profession.”  Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society and the Career Development Office.

Marc Flandreau, Professor, International History and Professor, International Economics, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, “Libel, Liability and Lawyers: the Opaque Origins of the Business of Transparency.”

Leila Janah, Samasource Founder and CEO, “Samasource: Beyond the Headlines.”  Co-sponsored with the Information Society Project and the Yale Law & Business Society.

Ivan Png, Lim Kim San Professor, School of Business, and Professor of Economics and Information Systems, National University of Singapore, “Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Investor Mobility: Empirical Evidence.”

Emil Kleinhaus ‘02, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, “Current Issues in Bankruptcy Law: Bernard Madoff v. The New York Mets.” Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society and the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Yakov Amihud, Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, New York University Stern School of Business, “Liquidity, the Value of the Firm and Corporate Finance.”

Nicholas C. Howson, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, “Enforcement without Foundation? China’s Insider Trading Regime and the Abuse of Administrative Law.” Co-sponsored with the China Law Center.

Eric Braverman ‘02, Partner, McKinsey & Company, “Counseling Government Leaders on Innovation.”  Co-sponsored with the Career Development Office and the Yale Law & Business Society.

Robert C. Weber, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel, IBM, “Insights from a Century of Leadership.” Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society and the Career Development Office.

Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best-selling author with Gregory J. Fleming ‘88, President, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, “Washington, Wall Street and the Struggle to Restore Confidence in America’s Future.”  Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Jonathon Soler, Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, “Organization of Hedge Funds and Private Equity Firms.”

Thomas H. Milch ‘76, Chair, Arnold & Porter LLP, “The Changing Nature of Legal Practice.” Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society, the Yale Environmental Law Association, and the Career Development Office.

John Turitzin, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Marvel Entertainment and David Galluzi, Deputy General Counsel, Marvel Entertainment and General Counsel, Marvel Studios, “Spider-Man, X-Men, and Iron Man: The Role of Lawyers in the Marvel Universe.” Co-sponsored with the Yale Entertainment and Sports Law Association.

Stephen Roach, Senior Lecturer, Yale School of Management, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, and Non-executive Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia, “US-China Economic Tensions: Currency War or Cease Fire?” Co-sponsored with the China Law Center.

Edward Lampert, ESL Investments, “Governance: Who benefits, who pays, who decides?”  Co-sponsored with the Yale Law & Business Society.

Jonathan Macey ‘82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law and Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, ”SEC v. Goldman Sachs: What Are the Merits and What Are the Stakes?”

Andrew Kassoy, B Lab, “The B Corporation and Other Approaches to Socially Conscious Business Enterprise.”

Jonathon Soler, Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, “Organization of Hedge Funds and Private Equity Firms.”

Connor Raso ‘10, Yale Law School, “Do TARP Bank Bailouts Favor Politically Connected Firms?”

Robert Pozen YLS ‘72, JSD ‘73, Chairman, MFS Investment Management, “How to Fix the US Financial System.”

Michael Solender ‘89, YLS Senior Research Scholar and former General Counsel, The Bear Stearns Companies, “How Should President-Elect Obama Regulate The Financial Sector?”

Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers.”

Guido Ferrarini LLM ‘78, Professor of Law and Director, Centre for Law and Finance, University of Genoa, “Qualitative Indicators of Financial Collapse.”

Siona Robin Listokin, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, “Public Pension Fund Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility.”

Cindy Alexander, Assistant Chief Economist, Office of Economic Analysis, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Visiting Research Scholar, the YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “Corporate Finance Rulemaking at the SEC: An Economics Perspective.”

Clifford Holderness, Professor of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, “Ownership Concentration around the World: Legal, Institutional, and Cultural Explanations.”

Gerard Hertig, Professor of Law and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, “Corporate governance laws in Europe, Japan and the U.S.: Ownership regimes explain them all.”

Roberta Romano ‘80, YLS Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor and Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law, “How to Craft a Career in Corporate Law: Foundations for Transaction Lawyering, Litigation, Business and Academic Careers.”

Alex Sussman ‘72, Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, “The Use of Expert Witnesses in Securities Cases.”

Vic Khanna, Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law, University of Michigan Law School, “The Economic History of the Corporate Form in Ancient India.”

Dr. Erich Schanze, Professor, the Institut für Rechtsvergleichung, Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany, “Directors’ Duties and Behavioral Economics.”