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Private and Public Executive Power

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Add to Calendar 2018-10-12 08:15:00 2018-10-13 11:45:00 Private and Public Executive Power Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/private-and-public-executive-power-and-organization - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public —
Faculty Workshop (Room 203)
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
By invitation only

Business and government executives share many of the same challenges, as both are increasingly called upon to solve new social problems. Questions inevitably arise about allocations of power, the legitimate scope of authority, organizational form choice, and mechanisms of accountability. At the same time, these private and public domains are often siloed and studied as separate phenomena. This two-day conference will gather scholars and practitioners from law schools, business schools and social science departments to cross those boundaries.  

In the public arena, connecting the inquiries becomes ever more urgent in light of the recent establishment of a White House Office of American Innovation, which promises to gather business leaders to reform government from within. In the private arena, businesses must respond to new pressures from changing ownership structures, activist funds, venture capitalists, and sophisticated banks. In doing so, they have increasingly looked to strategies such as entity partitioning and committed minority stakes that implement public organizational ideas like checks-and-balances. This event will address how far these analogies can and should go.

Private and Public Executive Power

  • Friday, October 12, 2018
    • Breakfast and Registration
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      • 2nd Floor Lobby
    • Welcome Comments
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      • Faculty Workshop - Room 203
    • Session 1: Between Public and Private Enterprise: The Law and Economics of Special-Purpose Governments
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      • Faculty Workshop - Room 203

      • Presenter:                   Henry B. Hansmann, Yale Law School

        Discussants:              

        Eric Talley, Columbia Law School

        Christopher Carrigan, George Washington University, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration     

    • Session 2: Interim Leaders in Business and Government
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      • Faculty Workshop - Room 203

      • Presenter:                   Anne Joseph O’Connell, Stanford Law School
        Discussants:               

        Tom C. W. Lin, Temple University, Beasley School of Law

        David A. Hyman, Georgetown Law School

    • Session 3: Attention-Induced Information Dry-Ups
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      • Faculty Workshop - Room 203

      • Presenter:                   Elisabeth Kempf, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
         

        Discussants:               

        Colleen Honigsberg, Stanford Law School

        James Pfiffner, George Mason University, Schar School of Policy and Government

         

    • Session 4: Neoliberal Socialism
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      • Faculty Workshop - Room 203

      • Presenter:                Jon D. Michaels, UCLA School of Law

        Discussants:            

        Usha Rodrigues, University of Georgia School of Law

        Karen Hult, Virginia Tech, Department of Political Science & Center for Public Administration and Policy

  • Saturday, October 13, 2018
    • Breakfast
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      • Faculty Workshop - Room 203
    • Session 5: Indirect Investor Protection
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      • Faculty Workshop - Room 203

      • Presenter:                   Holger Spamann, Harvard Law School

        Discussants:               

        Emiliano M. Catan, NYU School of Law

        Evan J. Criddle, William and Mary Law School     

    • Session 6: Norms that Promote Long-term Institutional Improvement in the Face of Leadership and Regime Changes
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      • Faculty Workshop - Room 206

      • Presenter:            William E. Kovacic, George Washington University Law School

        Discussants:             

        Margaret Blair, Vanderbilt University Law School

        William G. Resh, USC, Sol Price School of Public Policy

    • Closing Comments
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