2022-2023 Roundtable
December 2, 2022
Morning Paper Presentations
Paper Presentation I: “Why SPACs: An Apologia”
Paper Presenter:
Usha Rodrigues, Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and University Professor, University of Georgia and M.E. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law, University of Georgia School of Law
Discussants:
Charles W. Allen, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Michael Klausner '81, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Moderator:
Sven Riethmueller, YLS Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Clinic, and Robert Todd Lang '47 Entrepreneurship Fellow
Paper Presentation II: “Protecting the Sovereign’s Money Monopoly”
Paper Presenter:
Gary B. Gorton, Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management & Finance, Yale School of Management
Discussants:
Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel K. Tarullo, Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice, Harvard Law School
Moderator:
Jonathan R. Macey '82, YLS Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law
Afternoon Discussion: Sustainable Investing
Keynote remarks on The Economics of Climate Change by William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor in the School of the Environment, Yale University.
Panel Discussion: “Is Sustainable Investing Sustainable?”
Panelists:
Ulrich Atz, Research Fellow, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
Jill E. Fisch '85, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law and Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Robert H. Sitkoff, Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law and John L. Gray Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderator:
Nancy Liao '05, John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director, YLS Center for the Study of Corporate Law and YLS Senior Research Scholar in Law