From Wall Street to Main Street Symposium

On Thursday and Friday, January 27th and 28th, 2011, the Chapman Law Review will host its annual symposium "From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of Financial Regulation." The symposium will analyze the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act as speakers and panelists will describe various provisions of Dodd-Frank and opine on the potential that this new financial industry regulation will be successful. A cutting edge group of legal scholars, regulators, practitioners, and bankers will tackle the financial market crisis of 2008 from a variety of perspectives through the lens of the new Dodd-Frank regulation.

The event will be podcast live. Go here, and scroll down to "webcasts." Further, each panel has its own weblink as indicated below:

Panel I: Into the Bog: An Introduction to Dodd-Frank

Panel II: Congress Punts; Administrative Agencies Receive; Welcome to a Decade of Rulemaking

Keynote: Steven Schwarcz: Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Approaches to Financial Regulation

Panel III: The Return of the Rating Agencies: Rerun or Redemption?

Panel IV: Who's the Boss: Re-writing the Rules of Corporate Governance

From Wall Street to Main Street Symposium

The Chapman University School of Law and the Chapman Law Review will host a Symposium on Thursday and Friday, January 27th and 28th, 2011 entitled "From Wall Street to Main Street: The Future of Financial Regulation." The Symposium aims to examine the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act featuring keynote speaker Professor Steven Schwarcz and panels focused on deciphering the content and implications of new Wall Street regulations.

Corporate Justice Blog contributors Steven Ramirez, Jill Barclift and andré douglas pond cummings are among the participants that will appear on panels scheduled for 1.28.11 including (a) Into the Bog: An Introduction to Dodd-Frank; (b) Congress Punts; Administrative Agencies Receive; Welcome to a Decade of Rulemaking; (c) The Return of the Rating Agencies: Rerun or Redemption?; and (d) Who's the Boss: Re-writing the Rules of Corporate Governance.

The Symposium promises to be a cutting edge event. For more information and registration instructions, click here. Wall Street reform is something that this blog has and will examine surgically in coming weeks and months.