September 26, 2008
"Executive Compensation Workshop: Rethinking Pay for Performance"
Executive compensation continues to attract considerable attention, much of it critical, from shareholder activists, the press, and Congress. Join us for a half day conference that will bring together leading academics and compensation practitioners to help directors explore “out-of-the-box” ways to better tie CEO pay to performance. For more info or to register go here.

Speaker Series. The BCLBE Fall ’08 Speaker Series begins with two presentations relating to East Asian law and business:

Tuesday, August 26
Zenichi Shishido, Seikei University School of Law, Japan
“Why Japanese Entrepreneurs Don't Give Up Control to VCs”
Boalt Hall, Room 170 (new Koret Room)
American entrepreneurs are willing to abandon control to VCs while Japanese entrepreneurs are not. Professor Shishido will explain how legal rules play an important role in these different entrepreneurial approaches. more

Monday, September 8, 2008
You-tien Hsing, University of California, Berkeley
“The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land Development in Post Mao China”
Boalt Hall, Room 105
As Chinese cities have expanded dramatically, radical changes have taken place in the socialist regime of land rights. Professor Hsing will talk about the players -- socialist land masters, municipal governments and mobilized citizens -- and the connection between urban expansion and local state building. more

Summer 2008

John Patrick Hunt comments on the recently released “best practices” reports in “Hedge Fund Regulation:  The President’s Working Group Committees’ Best Practices Reports – Raising the Bar but Missing Risks” which can be downloaded here. 

Eric Talley contributed several chapters and appendices to a recently published RAND Monograph: In the Name of Entrepreneurship? The Logic and Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Business. more

John Patrick Hunt comments on the SEC's proposal for increasing transparency and reducing conflicts of interest at credit rating agencies: The SEC's Proposed Rating Agency Rules: Unresolved Conflicts