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originally published on: http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2016/02/01/implications-of-mutual-and-private-fund-convergence/ By Wulf Kaal February 1, 2016 Mutual funds are becoming more like hedge funds as a matter of investment strategy while hedge funds are becoming more like mutual funds as a matter of the regulatory framework. The growth of the private fund industry and the proliferation of retail alternative funds in combination with the […]

Boston University School of Law Friday, December 4, 2015 Revised Program Arrive at Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Welcome Luncheon, Opening Remarks & Keynote Address Welcome: Tamar Frankel, Professor of Law & Michaels Faculty Research Scholar Boston University School of Law Introduction: William Birdthistle, Professor of Law Chicago-Kent College […]

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Hosted By Prof. Erik P.M. Vermeulen – Professor of Business and Financial Law at Tilburg University and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) in the Netherlands. Below are abstracts and SSRN links of my prior 4 articles on “Dynamic Regulation”: Evolution of Law: Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework Festschrift in Honor of Christian […]

The AALS Section on Securities Regulation invites papers for its program on “The Future of Securities Regulation: Innovation, Regulation and Enforcement.” January 6-10, 2016 New York, NY TOPIC DESCRIPTION: This panel discussion will explore the current trends and future implications in the securities regulation field including transactional and financial innovation, the regulation of investment funds, […]

ISNIE 2015 Conference Schedule Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH, 2015 4:15pm: Registration (Wasserstein, Milstein West) 5:00-6pm: Keynote Address (Wasserstein, Milstein West) Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining Michael Whinston, MIT 1 FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH, 2015 7:30-8:30am: Registration & Continental Breakfast (Wasserstein, Milstein West) 8:30-10am: Session 1 PANEL 1: EXPERIMENTS ABOUT INSTITUTIONS […]

June 4-5, 2015 Seton Hall University School of Law THURSDAY, JUNE 4th Registration & Breakfast (Room 273) Opening Remarks (Room 273) Concurrent Panels Panel A (Room 271) Regulating Financial Markets Moderator and Discussant: Alexander Dill (Chicago-Kent College of Law)   Gina-Gail S. Fletcher (Indiana University Maurer School of Law), Conflict-Based Market Manipulation   Joan MacLeod […]

May 15-16, 2015  All sessions to be held at Columbia Law School Friday, May 15 (Author’s name in bold indicates person presenting paper) 8:00 – 8:45:       Registration and Continental Breakfast Panel IA:          Consumer Bankruptcy Panel Chair: Kathryn Fritzdixon Will Dobbie, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, and Crystal Yang, “Consumer Bankruptcy and Financial Health” Discussant: Frank McIntyre Rajashri Chakrabarti […]