Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable Archives
Roundtable entries prior to 2018-2019 to come.
2023-2024 Roundtable
Paper Presentation I: “Follow the Pipeline: Anticipatory Effects of Proposed Regulations” by Joseph Kalmenovitz, University of Rochester, Simon Business School
Paper Presentation II: “Destabilizing Digital ‘Bank Walks’” by Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Panel Discussion: “Lessons Learned from a Post-Mortem of the Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse Failures” with:
Viral V. Acharya, NYU Stern School of Business and Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (2017-2019)
Randall D. Guynn, Chair, Financial Institutions Practice, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Andrew Metrick, Yale School of Management
Sir Paul Tucker, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, author, Unelected Power and Global Discord, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (2009-2013), and Chair of the Systemic Risk Council (2016-2021)
2022-2023 Roundtable
Paper Presentation I: “Why SPACs: An Apologia” by Usha Rodrigues, University of Georgia and University of Georgia School of Law
Paper Presentation II: “Protecting the Sovereign’s Money Monopoly” by Gary B. Gorton, Yale School of Management
Afternoon Discussion: Sustainable Investing
Keynote remarks on The Economics of Climate Change by William Nordhaus, Yale University, Department of Economics and School of Forestry
Panel Discussion: “Is Sustainable Investing Sustainable?” with:
Ulrich Atz, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
Jill E. Fisch '85, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Robert H. Sitkoff, Harvard Law School
2021-2022 Roundtable
Paper Presentation I: “Liquidity Restrictions, Runs, and Central Bank Interventions: Evidence from Money Market Funds” by Marco Macchiavelli, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Paper Presentation II: “Banks, Corporatism, and Collaboration in the Administrative State” by David Zaring, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
Afternoon Discussion: Mutual Fund Regulation: A Reevaluation
Panel Discussion with:
Campbell Harvey, Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
John D. Morley ’06, Yale Law School
Adriana Z. Robertson (J.D. ’15/Ph.D. ’17), University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Remarks by William Birdthistle, Director, Division of Investment Management, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2020-2021 Roundtable
Paper Presentation I: “Augmented Lawyering” by John Armour ‘96 (LLM), University of Oxford Faculty of Law
Paper Presentation II: “Socially Responsible Investments: Costs and Benefits for University Endowment Funds” by George Aragon, Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business
Panel Discussion: “Central Bank and Corporate Board Responses to COVID-19” with:
William English, Yale School of Management
Bengt Holmstrom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics
Andrew Metrick, Yale School of Management
Jack “Rusty” O’Kelley III ‘92, Russell Reynolds Associates
2019-2020 Roundtable
In Commemoration of John Bogle, Founder, The Vanguard Group
Co-sponsored by the Society of Investment Law and also the Twelfth Annual Investment Fund Roundtable.
Panel Discussion I: “Index Investing” with:
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Harvard Law School
John Coates, Harvard Law School
Dorothy S. Lund, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Edward Rock, New York University School of Law
Panel Discussion II: “Exchange-Traded Funds” with:
Henry T. C. Hu ‘79, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
John D. Morley ‘06, Yale Law School
George B. Raine ‘99, Ropes & Gray LLP.
Lunch Keynote Conversation with Dalia Blass, Director, Division of Investment Management, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Panel Discussion III: “The Future of Asset Management” with:
Gregory J. Fleming ‘88, Rockefeller Capital Management
Jasmin Sethi, Sethi Clarity Advisers
Aron Szapiro, Morningstar, Inc.
Dirk A. Zetzsche, University of Luxembourg
2018-2019 Roundtable
Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis: An Assessment
Paper Presentation I: “Leverage Caused the 2007-09 Crisis” by John Geanakoplos, Yale University, Department of Economics
Paper Presentation II: “The Regulatory Effect” by Paul G. Mahoney ‘84, University of Virginia School of Law
Panel Discussion: "Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis: An Assessment" with:
Randall D. Guynn, Chair, Financial Institutions Practice, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Andrew Metrick, Yale School of Management
Daniel K. Tarullo, Harvard Law School and Governor of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Member of the Federal Open Market Committee (2009-2017)
Sir Paul Tucker, Chair of the Systemic Risk Council, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (2009-2013)