Dates

Oct. 16 to 17, 2009

Description

The current financial crisis and resultant economic recession raise issues of immediate importance and profound long-range significance with respect to the regulation of financial markets and institutions and with respect to fiscal and monetary policies. The goal of this conference was to focus less on the question of what substantive regulations or other economic policies are needed, and instead looked at the question of who will do the regulating or carry out the economic policies in a world in which there are multiple layers of governments. The conference was co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Sacramento Chapter.

Some of the questions that the conference explored include:

  • Should there be a supranational regulator of financial markets and institutions?
  • Are sub-national units of government (example, the state courts of Delaware) the appropriate regulators for institutions with significant worldwide economic impact?
  • Does the lack of a strong central government in the European Union prevent the European Union from taking a sufficiently robust response to the crisis, as, for example, in the event of sovereign defaults in Eastern Europe?
  • Who regulates units of government when they act as participants in financial markets?

Materials

Agenda (pdf)

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Schedule
2009
Friday, October 16th
9:10 AM

Welcome Remarks

Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, University of the Pacific

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento

9:10 AM - 9:00 AM

11:00 AM

Panel 1: Lessons from Europe

Paul Nihoul, Catholic University Louvain
Harald Hau, INSEAD

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento

11:00 AM - 9:10 AM

12:30 PM

Panel 2: The Big Picture

John Head, University of Kansas
Douglas Arner, University of Hong Kong
Anupam Chander, University of California, Davis

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento

12:30 PM - 11:00 AM

3:30 PM

Panel 3: Citigroup: A case Study in Multilayered Regulation

Kate Baragona, Formerly with Citigroup
Franklin Gevurtz, University of the Pacific

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento

3:30 PM - 2:00 PM

5:00 PM

Panel 4: The View from the Trenches: Economists, Policy Makers, Market Players

Fred Buenrostro, CalPERA
Wayne Strumpfer, US Securities and Exchange Commission
Sharmila King, University of the Pacific

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento

5:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Saturday, October 17th
9:30 AM

Panel 5: Beyond the U.S. and Europe

Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte, University of the Pacific

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento

9:30 AM - 9:00 AM

11:30 AM

Panel 6: Part 1 - The Architecture of Regulation

James Cox, Duke University School of Law
Charles Whitehead, Cornell University
Christopher J. Brummer, Georgetown University

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento

11:30 AM - 9:30 AM

12:30 PM

Panel 6: Part 2 - The Architecture of Regulation

Robert Ahdieh, Emory University School of Law
Jarrod Wong, University of the Pacific
Miriam Cherry, University of the Pacific

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento

12:30 PM - 11:30 AM