This series features practitioners and other experts exploring issues at the intersection of law and business.
All seminars are from 12:45 to 1:45 pm unless otherwise noted. Lunch will be provided. MCLE credit is available.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Boalt Hall, Room 110 “China’s Long Awaited Antimonopoly Law – Convergence, Transparency & Chinese Antitrust”
Nate Bush, Partner O’Melveny & Myers, Beijing, CHINA Watch Video (Quicktime Required)
Thirteen years in the making, China's first comprehensive antitrust law, the Antimonopoly Law, will take effect on August 1, 2008. True, it is modeled on foreign practice. But ambiguities remain. Will this new law promote consumer welfare, innovation, and efficiency through the competitive process? Or will it gravitate towards populism, protectionism, and industrial policy? Nate Bush will discuss these and other questions left unresolved by the new law.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Boalt Hall, Room 105 “A Career in the Law: Perspectives on Life in Government, Private Practice and the Corporate Law Department”
Charles A. James, Vice President & General Counsel Chevron Corporation Watch Video (Quicktime Required)
During the course of his 30-year career in the law, Charles James has worked as an agency staff attorney, as an associate and senior partner in one of America's largest law firms, as the head of a federal law enforcement agency, and now as the General Counsel of one of the world's largest multinational corporations. Mr. James will offer his perspectives on legal careers in these various settings, focusing on training, development and opportunities for professional advancement.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Boalt Hall, Room 105 “Financing Energy Projects – Adapting to Regulatory Change and Volatile Markets”
Allan Marks, Partner Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Watch Video (Quicktime Required)
Mr. Marks, currently an Adjunct professor at Boalt Hall, will look at how several trends are affecting the way in which new energy facilities are being developed and financed in the United States and overseas. The talk will touch on a number of key areas, including the effect of regulatory change to favor certain energy technologies, the emergence of clean energy as a "technology" play, the potential impact of new incentives to reduce carbon emissions, and the changing sources of capital for energy investments in the midst of highly volatile credit markets and dramatically rising global commodity prices.
Monday, April 24, 2008
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room– 12:30 – 1:30 (note time) “Indian Competition Law & Economics – A Survey of the Old and the New”
Professor Rahul Singh, National Law School of India, Bangalore, India
Professor Singh will introduce the new competition law and its various elements, contrasting it with the old enactment. With the groundwork laid, he will touch upon some of the recent issues arising from the new law. Professor Singh serves on the advisory board of several Indian corporations, and advises the Competition Commission of India, Government of India, in formulation and enforcement of competition law and policy.
Monday, April 28, 2008 Co-sponsored with UCB Endowed Lecture in Law and Economics Program “Toward a Unified Theory of Torts”
Boalt Hall, Room 105 NOTE TIME: 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Reception to follow at 5:45 pm in the Hotchkiss Courtyard
Hon. Guido Calabresi, Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School
Guido Calabresi was appointed Judge of the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1994. Prior to his appointment, he was Dean and Sterling Professor at Yale Law School where he began teaching in 1959. He continues to serve as a member of the Yale faculty. Judge Calabresi is widely recognized as a founder of the field of law and economics. His pioneering contributions include the application of economic reasoning to the law of torts and property. Judge Calabresi will be discussing the connection between efficiency and fairness, specifically commutative justice or restorative justice.
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