William E. Kovacic

William E. Kovacic
George Washington University Law School
former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
March 18, 2010

Paul Clement
Partner, King & Spalding
former Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice
Senior Fellow, Supreme Court Institute and Visiting Professor
Georgetown University Law Center
April 8, 2009

"Is Corporate Law Still a Race to the Top?"
Judge Frank Easterbrook
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
April 8, 2008

"Appellate Courts & Independent Experts"
Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg, Chief Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
April 4-5, 2007

“Justified Monopoly? Common Strands in the Regulation of the Pharmaceutical & Telecommunications Industry”
Richard A. Epstein
James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School
March 30, 2005

"Economics, Market Behavior & the Law"
Vernon Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate
Professor of Economics and Law
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science
George Mason University
April 13, 2004

Sumner Canary Lecture

Jack Landman Goldsmith
Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
March 23, 2010

"Tax Avoidance; the Never Ending Search for Resolving Clashing Principles"

200 * 4:30-5:30 pm * Moot Courtroom
"Tax Avoidance; the Never Ending Search for Resolving Clashing Principles"
John Tiley
Cambridge

October 9, 2007
“Temporary-Effect Legislation and Fiscal Responsibility”
George K. Yin
Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law & Taxation
Class of 1966 Research Professor
Universtiy of Virginia

November 27, 2006
"Domestic and International Fringe Benefits: How and When to Tax a Free Lunch"
Richard Vann, Challis Professor of Law, University of Sydney
William K. Jacobs, Jr. Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

February 14, 2006
"Gifts, Gafts, Gefts - What Constitutes a 'Gift' and a Principled Tax Policy Justification Excluding It from a Donee's Income"
Professor Douglas Kahn
University of Michigan Law School

"Ensuring Accountable Government Regulation: Lessons Learned, Challenges Ahead"

"Regulation by Litigation: Boon or Bane?"
cosponsor - The Federalist Society
March 17, 2009

"Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance: Heroes Or Villains?"

2008 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance: Heroes Or Villains?"
Friday, April 17, 2009

2006 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"In the Crosshairs: The New Legal & Ethical Duties of Corporate Attorneys"
Friday, October 13, 2006

Speakers
*Harvey Goldschmid, Professor, Columbia University and former SEC Commissioner
*Richard Humes, Associate General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission
*Geoffrey Miller, Professor, New York University

Commentators
-Joseph Bauer, General Counsel, Lubrizol
-John Dunn, Jones Day
-Tom Morgan, Professor, George Washington University
-Geralyn Presti, General Counsel, Forest City
-Bob Rapp, Calfee Halter and Griswold


2004 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"Corporate Governance: Directors vs. Shareholders?"

Speakers:
*Commissioner Roel C. Campos, Securities and Exchange Commission
*Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Professor, Harvard Law School
*Jonathan R. Macey, Professor, Yale Law School


2002 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"The Role of Lawyers in Strategic Alliances"

Speakers Included:
Stephen Fraidin, Partner, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY
Rachelle C. Sampson, Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University


2000 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"Public Capital v. Private Capital"

Joseph A. Grundfest, Stanford University Law School

"Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research"

Professor Wendy Wagner
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Thomas O. McGarity
R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Administrative Law
University of Texas School of Law

E. Donald Elliott, Partner
Chair, Worldwide Environmental, Health and Safety Department
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington D.C.

Christopher Schroeder
Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies
Duke University School of Law

Moderator:
Professor Jonathan Adler
Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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"An Environmental Break Through? -- The Challenge of Climate Change, the Death of Environmentalism, & the Politics of Possibility"
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
The Breakthrough Institute
February 13, 2008

"Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal & the Constitution–Legal & Policy Perspectives"

Friday, February 4, 2005
8:30 AM-2:30 PM * Moot Courtroom

"Scheme Liability, Section 10(b), and Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific Atlanta”

Friday, October 5, 2007
8:45 AM - 12:45 PM * Moot Courtroom

"Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle"

September 12, 2007 * 4:30-5:30 pm
Henry N. Butler, Senior Lecturer and Executive Director, The Searle Center
Northwestern University School of Law

"Markets & the Environment: Friends or Foes?"
Terry Anderson, Executive Director
PERC-The Center for Free Market Environmentalism
April 7, 2004

"Federalism & Environmental Policy"
Jonathan Adler, Assistant Professor
Case School of Law
February 11, 2004

"Environmental Religion in Theological Perspective"
Robert Nelson, Professor
School of Public Affairs
University of Maryland
September 25, 2003

"Reflections on Start-up.Com & govWorks"
Tom Herman, co-founder & former CTO, govWorks.com
March 26, 2004

"Start-Up.Com"
Tom Herman & govWorks.com
March 25, 2004