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Session Title: Competition Policy
Presiding: Edward Iacobucci, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
William E. Kovacic , The George Washington University Law School and David A. Hyman , University of Illinois - College of Law
How Institutional Design Affects Statutory Implementation: Lessons from Competition Law
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Daniel Ershov , Government of Canada - Micro-Economic Analysis Directorate and Marc Duhamel , Industry Canada
Benchmarking Competition Intensity in Canada and the Us: Estimating Boone's Profit Elasticities, 1985-2005
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Mitsuru Sunada , Japan Fair Trade Commission
Vertical Integration in the Japanese Movie Industry
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Discussants:

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 2:45 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Edward Iacobucci
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law 
416-978-2694  edward.iacobucci@utoronto.ca 


 

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Session Title: International Corporate Governance
Presiding: Frederick Tung, Emory University - School of Law
Martin Gelter , Fordham University School of Law
The Dark Side of Shareholder Influence: Toward a Holdup Theory of Stakeholders in Comparative Corporate Governance
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Anita I. Anand , University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Frank Milne , Queen's University - Department of Economics and Lynnette D. Purda , Queen's School of Business
Do Independent Boards Behave Differently? Examining the Voluntary Adoption of Corporate Governance Guidelines
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Ole-Kristian Hope , University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, Wayne B. Thomas , University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business and Dushyantkumar Vyas , University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
The Cost of Pride: Why Do Firms from Developing Countries Bid Higher?
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Discussants:

Martin Gelter , Fordham University School of Law
Dushyantkumar Vyas , University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 2:45 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Frederick Tung
Emory University - School of Law 
(404) 712-4707  fred.tung@law.emory.edu 


 

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Session Title: Criminal Law I
Presiding: David Bjerk, Claremont McKenna College – Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
Louis Hotte , University of Ottawa, Fabrice Valognes , Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) - Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences and Tanguy Van Ypersele , National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) - Research Group in Quantitative Saving (GREQAM)
Property Crime with Private Protection: A Market-for-Offenses Approach
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Philip A. Curry , Simon Fraser University
Malice Aforethought
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David Scoones , University of Victoria
Optimal Unconditional Parole
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Discussants:

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 2:45 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
David Bjerk
Claremont McKenna College – Robert Day School of Economics and Finance 
  david.bjerk@claremontmckenna.edu 


 

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Session Title: Securities Law
Presiding: Janis Sarra, University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law
Cally E. Jordan , University of Melbourne - Law School and Pamela S. Hughes , Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Which Way for Market Institutions? The Fundamental Question of Self-Regulation
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Michael P. Ilg , University of Calgary - Faculty of Law
The 'Fraud-on-the-Market' Theory for Securities Litigation Arrives in Canada: Two Steps Forward and One Back?
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William Forbes , Loughborough University - Business School
No Conflict, No Interest: On the Economics of Conflicts of Interests Faced by Analysts
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Discussants:

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 2:45 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Janis Sarra
University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law 
604-822-9255  sarra@law.ubc.ca 


 

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Session Title: Lawyers, Lawyering and Dispute Resolution
Presiding: Margaret Friedlander Brinig, Notre Dame Law School
Rosa Ferrer , Vanderbilt University - Department of Economics
The Effect of Lawyers' Career Concerns on Litigation
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Matthew Jennejohn , Columbia University School of Law
Contract Adjudication in a Collaborative Economy
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Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 2:45 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Margaret Friedlander Brinig
Notre Dame Law School 
  Margaret.Brinig.1@nd.edu 


 

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Session Title: Corporate Governance
Presiding: Anita Anand, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Giulio Ecchia , University of Bologna - Department of Economics, Martin Gelter , Fordham University School of Law and Piero Pasotti , University of Bologna, Dept. of Economics
Corporate Governance, Corporate and Employment Law, and the Costs of Expropriation
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James C. Spindler , University of Southern California Law School
Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5?
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Charles K. Whitehead , Cornell Law School
The Evolution of Debt: Covenants, the Credit Market, and Corporate Governance
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Discussants:

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 4:30 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Anita Anand
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law 
  anita.anand@utoronto.ca 


 

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Session Title: Environmental Law and Economics
Presiding: David Duff, University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law
Vinoli Thampapillai , Australian National University
Limits to Government Water Buy-Backs in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
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Andrew James Green , University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Was that Really Necessary? Some Implications of Trade Law for Alternative Energy
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Andrew Eckert , University of Alberta - Department of Economics and Heather Eckert , University of Alberta - Department of Economics
Environmental Regulation and Rationalization in the Retail Gasoline Industry
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Discussants:

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 4:30 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
David Duff
University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law 
604-827-3586  duff@law.ubc.ca 


 

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Session Title: Intellectual Property
Presiding: Michael Ilg, University of Calgary - Faculty of Law
Jing-Yuan Chiou , IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies
The Patent Quality Control Process: Can We Afford an (Rationally) Ignorant Patent Offices?
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Mohammed Rafiquzzaman , Industry Canada
Intellectual Property Protection and Innovation
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Ariel Katz , University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Depreciation of Goodwill: Law and Economics Perspective
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Discussants:

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 4:30 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Michael Ilg
University of Calgary - Faculty of Law 
  mpilg@ucalgary.ca 


 

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Session Title: Theory
Presiding: Shubha Ghosh, University of Wisconsin Law School
Jonathan Remy Nash , Emory University School of Law
Null Preemption
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Dan Markel , Florida State University College of Law
How Should Punitive Damages Work?
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Jacob Nussim , Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
Distributive Aspects of Legal Standards
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Discussants:

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 4:30 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Shubha Ghosh
University of Wisconsin Law School 
  ghosh7@wisc.edu 


 

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Session Title: Financial Regulation
Presiding: Edward Iacobucci, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Cecile Carpentier , Laval University and Jean-Marc Suret , Laval University
The Economic Effects of Low Listing Requirements: An Analysis of Reverse Merger Listings
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Anna Gelpern , American University Washington College of Law
Choices at the Precipice: Containment and Distribution in Financial Crisis
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Discussants:

Anna Gelpern , American University Washington College of Law

Date: September 26, 2008    Time: 4:30 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Edward Iacobucci
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law 
416-978-2694  edward.iacobucci@utoronto.ca 


 

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Session Title: Corporate Law
Presiding: Martin Gelter, Fordham University School of Law
Bruce H. Kobayashi , George Mason University - School of Law and Larry E. Ribstein , University of Illinois College of Law
The Non-Uniformity of Uniform Laws
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Christina L. Boyd , State University of New York - Department of Political Science and David A. Hoffman , Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
A Closer Look at Veil Piercing in Federal District Courts
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Claire A. Hill , University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - School of Law and Brett H. McDonnell , University of Minnesota Law School
Netsmart, Topps and Lear: Delaware Corporate Law's Optimal Penumbra
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 9:00 AM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Martin Gelter
Fordham University School of Law 
646-312-8752  mgelter@law.fordham.edu 


 

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Session Title: Criminal Law II
Presiding: Philip Curry, Simon Fraser University
Pedro H. Albuquerque , University of Minnesota Duluth and Prasad R. Vemala , Texas A&M International University
A Statistical Evaluation of Femicide Rates in Mexican Cities Along the US-Mexico Border
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Nicolas Sahuguet , HEC Montreal - Institute of Applied Economics and Stéphane Mechoulan , University of Toronto - Department of Economics
Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release in the U.S.: An Approach Based on Outcome Tests
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David Bjerk , Claremont McKenna College – Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 9:00 AM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Philip Curry
Simon Fraser University 
  pcurry@sfu.ca 


 

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Session Title: Judges, Judging and the LItigation Process
Presiding: Jonathan Nash, Emory University School of Law
Royce de Rohan Barondes , University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
Want Your Opinions Reversed? Hire a Yale Clerk (and Don't Require the Bar)
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Benjamin Alarie , University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Andrew James Green , University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and Edward M. Iacobucci , University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Is Bigger Always Better? On Optimal Panel Size, with Evidence from the Supreme Court of Canada
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Paul J. Stancil , University of Illinois College of Law
Balancing the Pleading Equation
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 9:00 AM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Jonathan Nash
Emory University School of Law 
  jonathan.nash@emory.edu 


 

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Session Title: Bankruptcy Law
Presiding: Charles Whitehead, Cornell Law School
Benoit Mario Papillon , University of Quebec at Trois Rivieres
Selection of Candidates for Business Reorganization and Informational Efficiency of Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law Procedure
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Jassmine Girgis , University of Calgary, Faculty of Law
Deepening Insolvency in Canada?
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 10:45 AM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Charles Whitehead
Cornell Law School 
  ckw26@cornell.edu 


 

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Session Title: Behavioural Law and Economics
Presiding: Claire Hill, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - School of Law
Augusto C. Lima , The University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
When Harry Met Kreutziger: A Look into Unconscionability Through the Lenses of Culture
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Margaret F. Brinig , Notre Dame Law School
Do Fathers Prefer Sons?
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 10:45 AM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Claire Hill
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - School of Law 
612-624-6521  hillx445@umn.edu 


 

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Session Title: Contracts
Presiding: Jacob Nussim, Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
Qi Zhou , University of Sheffield, Faculty of Law
An Economic Perspective on the Doctrine of Unilateral Mistake in English Contract Law: A Remedy-Based Approach
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Peter Mazzacano , York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
The Lex Mercatoria as Autonomous Law
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Benjamin Alarie , University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Mutual Misunderstanding in Contract
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Discussants:

Peter Mazzacano , York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 10:45 AM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Jacob Nussim
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law 
972-3-531-7088  jnussim@mail.biu.ac.il 


 

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Session Title: Creditors and Debt
Presiding: Shubha Ghosh, University of Wisconsin Law School
Sergio A. Muro , Cornell University - School of Law
Lender Control Liability Functional Examination: The Firm and Heuristics
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Frederick Tung , Emory University - School of Law
Creditors and the New Corporate Governance
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 10:45 AM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Shubha Ghosh
University of Wisconsin Law School 
  ghosh7@wisc.edu 


 

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Session Title: Property
Presiding: Kevin Davis, New York University - School of Law
Jonathan Remy Nash , Emory University School of Law and Stephanie Stern , Chicago-Kent College of Law
Property Frames
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Cherie Metcalf , Queen's University - Faculty of Law
The (Ir)Relevance of Constitutional Protection for Property Rights: Compensation for Takings in Canada and the U.S.
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Norman Siebrasse , University of New Brunswick - Fredericton - Faculty of Law
An Agent-Based Computational Model of the Predatory State
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 10:45 AM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Kevin Davis
New York University - School of Law 
212-992-8843  ked2@nyu.edu 


 

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Session Title: Taxation
Presiding: Benjamin Alarie, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
David I. Walker , Boston University School of Law
The Non-Option: Understanding the Dearth of Discounted Employee Stock Options
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David G. Duff , University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law
Towards an Exemption Regime for the Taxation of Outbound Direct Investment
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 1:15 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Benjamin Alarie
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law 
416-946-8205  ben.alarie@utoronto.ca 


 

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Session Title: International Corporate Governance and Development
Presiding: Vinoli Thampapillai, Australian National University
Dhammika Dharmapala , University of Illinois College of Law and Vikramaditya S. Khanna , University of Michigan Law School
Corporate Governance, Enforcement, and Firm Value: Evidence from India
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Alena Kimakova , York University
Trade, Income Inequality and Investment in Education
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Kevin E. Davis , New York University - School of Law
Remedies for Corruption in Government Contracting
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 1:15 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Vinoli Thampapillai
Australian National University 
  vinoli.thampapillai@anu.edu.au 


 

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Session Title: Law & Economics of Disease, Rescue and Precaution
Presiding: Stephane Mechoulan, University of Toronto - Department of Economics
Sophie Harnay , Université Paris X Nanterre and Alain Marciano , University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne - Faculté des Sciences Economiques
Altruism and Self-Interest from an Economic Analysis of Law Perspective: The Economic Analysis of Rescue Laws
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Danieli Arbex , College of Law - UIUC
Fighting Neglected Diseases: A Double Push-and-Pull Program
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Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 1:15 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
Stephane Mechoulan
University of Toronto - Department of Economics 
  s.mechoulan@utoronto.ca 


 

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Session Title: Criminal Law III
Presiding: David Scoones, University of Victoria
Benjamin A Neil , Towson University
The Regulation of Right to Carry Laws by States and Their Impact on Violent Crime
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Andrew Leigh , Australian National University - Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences and Christine Neill , Wilfrid Laurier University
Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
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Lydie Ancelot , BETA, UMR-CNRS 7522 and Nancy University
Reflections on Plea Bargaining Effectiveness and Equity: An Econometrical Application to the French Process
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Elizabeth Rapaport , University of New Mexico School of Law
Staying Alive: Executive Clemency, Equal Protection, and the Politics of Gender in Women's Capital Cases
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Paul Finkelman , Albany Law School - Government Law Center
Picture Perfect: The First Amendment Trumps Congress in Ashcroft V. Free Speech Coalition
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Discussants:

Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 3:00 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding:
David Scoones
University of Victoria 
250-721-6214  scoones@uvic.ca 


 

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Session Title: Securities Law and Finance
Presiding:
M. Todd Henderson , University of Chicago - Law School, Alan D. Jagolinzer , Stanford Graduate School of Business and Karl A. Muller , Pennsylvania State University - Department of Accounting
Strategic Disclosure of 10b5-1 Trading Plans
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Onnig H. Dombalagian , Tulane Law School
Rules, Principles, and Levers in Investment Bank Regulation
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Alicia J Davis , University of Michigan Law School
Are Investors' Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence
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Date: September 27, 2008    Time: 3:00 PM   Expected Attendance: ______________

Presiding: