Events
The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy sponsors many events throughout the year. These activities are built around our outstanding core, affiliated and adjunct faculty, as well as visiting scholars and seasoned professionals. BCLBE often collaborates with other Berkeley Law centers, the Haas School of Business, the Economics Department and other campus wide organizations in presenting its seminars, workshops and policy roundtables. Most events are open to students, faculty, the greater UC community as well as the public.
Upcoming and completed events, including video links, for Fall 2009 are listed below. For events prior to this time, go to our Archive.
Fall 2009 Events:
To register for upcoming events please visit the Event Registration Page.Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Business & Ethics: Lessons from the Global Economic Crisis
12:30 to 1:45 pm
Boalt Hall, Room 105
This event is being co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center on Institutions and Governance (IGOV).
A clear lesson from the global economic meltdown is that corporate governance and ethics matter. Less clear are the steps to improving how financial firms operate. Join a panel of UC Berkeley professors to explore and respond to questions such as: How should executives incorporate potential global and long term impacts into their business decisions? Can corporate governance structures and rules be improved to provide meaningful oversight and socially favorable incentives to financial firm leaders? Are the recent announcements of bonuses to financial executives a sign of economic recovery or continued ethical lapses? Click here to read more.
October 28, 2009
Global Financial & Economic Crisis: Global Unemployment
This event was co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center on Institutions and Governance (IGS).
Despite recent upticks in the economy, the U.S. and worldwide employment picture continues to be bleak. Are we facing a “jobless recovery?” Did the international economic collapse in 2008-09 alter the labor market permanently? UC Berkeley scholars answered these questions, explored the role of international organizations such as the G20 in addressing them, and offered proposals to prevent protectionism and promote a global solution. Panelist included: John Quigley (Dept. of Economics), Brad DeLong (Dept. of Economics), David Card (Dept. of Economics) and Andrew Rose (HAAS School of Business).
To view the webcast video recording please click here.
October 10, 2009
"Rebuilding the U.S. Financial System: The Causes, Consequences and the Regulatory Responses to the Credit Crisis"
BCBLE sponsored a panel at the Alumni Reunion Weekend event on October 10th. Panelists explored the prospects for preserving stability while promoting healthy innovation in the financial sector.
Panelists included: Eric Talley, Professor, Faculty Director of BCLBE; Michael Halloran '63, Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP; Nancy Wallace, Professor, California Chair of Real Estate and Urban Economics, Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, HAAS School of Business.
To view a video of the panel, follow this link.
To view Professor Wallace's powerpoint click here.
Read Halloran's piece on, "Systemic Risks and the Bear Stears Crisis."
September 9, 2009
"Legal Reform in China: The Domestic Debate" presented by Thomas Kellogg, Open Society Institute & Soros Foundation
This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Chinese Studies.
Many assumed that China would, as it grows more prosperous, embrace the rule of law, even as it maintains a go-slow approach on political reform. But in March 2008, the Communist Party renewed its support for “socialist legality,” highlighting the role of the Party in the judicial process and explicitly rejecting Western-style legal reforms. Some Chinese critics of the new policy have called for an embrace of global values and renewed efforts to construct independent legal institutions free from Party influence. Others advocate wide-ranging, wholesale structural reforms based on the Western constitutional model. Still others eschew specific policy proposals and instead offer a nationalist critique of Western governments’ interactions with China.
To watch the video click here.