Upcoming Events - 2012
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FEATURED UPCOMING BU LAW EVENTS
The Market Abuse Unit as a Response to the Call for Specialized Federal Securities Law Enforcement
A Lecture by Daniel M. Hawke (LAW '89)
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The BU Center for Finance, Law & Policy, the Graduate Program in Banking & Financial Law and the Review of Banking and Financial Law present a lecture by Daniel M. Hawke (LAW 1989), National Unit Chief, Market Abuse Unit, Division of Enforcement and Director, Philadelphia Regional Office, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In his capacity as Unit Chief, Mr. Hawke oversees nationwide investigations into large-scale insider trading networks and rings -- so-called "organized" insider-trading, large cap market manipulations, system-based and platform-driven trading violations such as front running, collusive trading, best execution and abusive short selling violations as well as other systemic, institutional regulatory violations, internal control violations and other abusive market practices. In his capacity as Regional Director, Mr. Hawke oversees the Commission's regulation and enforcement programs in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Hawke joined the SEC's Philadelphia Office in March 2005 as head of its enforcement program. Between 1999 and 2005, he served as a Branch Chief and Senior Counsel in the SEC's Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C. where he was involved in bringing significant enforcement actions involving public company accounting and financial disclosure, broker dealer regulation, insider trading and Regulation FD.
Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Hawke was a litigation partner at the law firm of Tucker, Flyer & Lewis in Washington, D.C. Mr. Hawke, 48, is a 1989 graduate of Boston University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Boston University International Law Journal, and a 1985 graduate of Tulane University where he received his bachelor's degree in political science.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. at the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, Ground Floor, Boston, MA. For additional event information, please contact the Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law.
Bringing Torture Home: American Soldiers and the Legacy and Legality of Torture
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Joshua E.S. Phillips, a reporter and author of None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture, will speak about what many soldiers cannot: the devastating legacy of torture on the United States’ veterans who witnessed or participated in it, with commentary from George Annas, J.D, M.P.H.
This lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. at the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, Ground Floor, Boston, MA. For additional event information, please contact gduong@bu.edu. For additional information about the author, please visit www.noneofuswerelikethisbefore.com.
Beyond Identities: The Limits of an Anti-discrimination Approach to Equality
Annual Distinguished Lecture Featuring Martha Albertson Fineman, Emory University School of Law
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Martha Albertson Fineman is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. An internationally recognized scholar in family law, feminist jurisprudence, and law and society, she directs the pioneering Feminism and Legal Theory Project and the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative. She is the author of pathbreaking books, such as The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies (Routledge, 1995) and The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency (The New Press, 2004), and is at work on The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition (Princeton, forthcoming). She has edited or co-edited many volumes of scholarship growing out of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, including, most recently, Transcending the Boundaries of Law: Generations of Feminism and Legal Theory (Routledge, 2010) and What Is Right for Children? The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights (Ashgate, 2009). She has received many awards for her teaching and writing, including the prestigious Harry Kalven Prize for her work in law and society. This lecture will be published in the Boston University Law Review.
This event is open to the public. There is no registration fee, but if you plan to attend, please RSVP to Elizabeth Aggott. This event will take place from 12:45 - 2:00 p.m. at the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, Ground Floor, Boston, MA.
Shadow Banking: Past, Present, Future
A Symposium Presented by the Review of Banking & Financial Law
Friday, February 24, 2012
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Many observers of the U.S. financial system blame the shadow banking system for the Great Recession of 2008. The shadow banking system is commonly defined as the chain of financial intermediaries engaged in providing credit by relying largely on short-term liabilities to support long-term assets with limited regulatory supervision. This symposium, co-sponsored by Boston University School of Law and the Boston Bar Association, brings together financial practitioners and leading scholars to examine the history, function and regulation of the shadow banking system. Panelists will focus on four topics: (1) what the shadow banking system is, (2) the investment techniques and technologies employed by the financial sector, (3) how the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 attempts to regulate shadow banking, and (4) where shadow banking will go from here.
Keynote Speaker:
Jonathan R. Macey, Yale Law School
Inaugural Address:
Steven L. Schwarcz, Duke University School of Law
Panelists:
Ronald S. Borod, DLA Piper
Claire A. Hill, University of Minnesota Law School
Cornelius K. Hurley, Boston University School of Law
H. Norman Knickle, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Scott Le Bouef, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Cynthia C. Lichtenstein, Boston College Law School
Saule T. Omarova, UNC School of Law
David Reiss, Brooklyn Law School
P. Morgan Ricks, Harvard Law School
Eric D. Roiter, Boston University School of Law
Moderators:
Tamar Frankel, Boston University School of Law
Mark Fagan, Harvard Kennedy School and Boston University School of Law
This event will take place on Friday, February 24, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.
This event is open to the public. There is no registration fee, but if you plan to attend, please RSVP to Elizabeth Aggott. For academic questions, please contact Janet Lee. For information about Continuing Legal Education credits, please contact the Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law.
The Law Is Not a Game: A Judge’s Reflections on Ethics
Shapiro Lecture featuring Mark L. Wolf, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Monday, February 27, 2012
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Join us for the Max M. Shapiro lecture featuring the Honorable Mark L. Wolf, who will speak about ethical issues that have arisen during his career as a private lawyer, prosecutor and judge. Appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 1985 by President Reagan, Judge Wolf became chief judge in 2006. Previously, he served in the Department of Justice as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, and as Deputy U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. He also worked in private practice with Surrey, Karasik & Morse in Washington, D.C., and with Sullivan & Worcester in Boston.
The Max M. Shapiro lecture is BU Law’s principle endowed lectureship. It serves as a tribute to the memory of Max Shapiro (’33), a lawyer who devoted his career to examining the place of legal ethics in trial advocacy.
This event will take place on Monday, February 27, 2012 from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, Boston, MA.
This event is open to the public. There is no registration fee, but if you plan to attend, please RSVP to Elizabeth Aggott.
A celebration of the publication of The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions by Jay Wexler, Professor of Law
Monday, March 5, 2012
Professor Jay Wexler has recently published The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions (Beacon Press). If the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of shrews, wombats, and bat-eared foxes. Past the ever-popular monkey house and lion cages, Professor Wexler leads us on a tour of the lesser-known clauses of the Constitution, the clauses that, like the yeti crab or platypus, rarely draw the big audiences but are worth a closer look. Just as ecologists remind us that even a weird little creature like a shrew can make all the difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy one, understanding the odd clauses offers readers a healthier appreciation for our constitutional system. With Wexler as your expert guide through this jurisprudence jungle, you’ll see the Constitution like you’ve never seen it before. The Odd Clauses puts these intriguing beasts on display and allows them to exhibit their relevance to our lives, our government’s structure, and the integrity of our democracy.
To celebrate the publication of this learned and clever book, we have invited three distinguished scholars to comment on it. Professor Wexler will respond.
Book Symposium
Welcome:
Dean Maureen O’Rourke, BU School of Law
Moderator:
Professor and Associate Dean James E. Fleming, BU School of Law
Commentators:
David Barron, Professor of Law, Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law, Harvard Law School
Trevor Morrison, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Adam Samaha, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School (visiting at Harvard Law School)
Response:
Jay Wexler, BU School of Law
Copies of the book will be available for purchase and Professor Wexler will be signing them.
This event will take place on Monday, March 5, 2012 from 12:45 - 2:00 p.m. at the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, Boston, MA.
All – including not only professors, law students, graduate students, and undergraduates, but also alumni and the general public – are welcome to attend the symposium. There is no registration fee, but if you plan to attend, please RSVP to Elizabeth Aggott. If you have academic questions about the program, please contact Professor James E. Fleming.
21st Annual Public Interest Project Auction Gala
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Public Interest Project is a student-run organization founded in 1984. Our mission is to provide grants to students who accept unpaid summer positions with non-profit, public interest or government organizations. Our goal is to foster a commitment to pro bono work and community service in all our grant recipients, whether they choose to pursue a public interest career or to work in the private sector.
The Auction Gala is PIP's largest fundraiser, bringing together faculty, students, alumni, and friends for an evening of food and drink in an exciting auction atmosphere. The Auction will take place in the Metcalf Grand Ballroom of the George Sherman Union (775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd Floor) from 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. Last year's prizes ranged from vacation getaways and Red Sox tickets to gift baskets and balloon prizes. Please feel free to contact PIP at buslpip@gmail.com with any questions or comments about the Auction, or inquiries about donating. More information is available at bupip.org.
Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises
Monday, April 2, 2012
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An international conference, co-sponsored by BU Law and the ASIL International Refugee Law Interest Group, on protracted refugee situations. While the first part of the conference will focus on the scope and ramifications of such refugee crises on a global basis, the second part aims at identifying state responses and policies addressing potential solutions to those problems. The event will include panels on Protracted Refugee Situations Relating to Historical Unresolved Conflicts, Current Major Global Refugee Crises, Existing Refugee Law Frameworks and Protection Gaps, and State Responses to Refugee Flows.
This event will take place on Monday, April 2, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. at the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.
This event is open to the public. There is no registration fee, but if you plan to attend, please RSVP to Elizabeth Aggott. For academic questions, please contact Susan Akram, Clinical Professor of Law.
A Lecture by Miguel Maduro - "The Promises of Constitutional Pluralism"
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro is a Visiting Professor of Law and Gruber Global Constitutionalism Fellow at Yale Law School. He is also Professor and Director of the Global Governance Programme at European University Institute. He served as Advocate General for the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg from 2003 to 2009. He specializes in European Union law, international economic law, constitutional law, and comparative institutional analysis. He has been a visiting professor at several academic institutions, including the College of Europe (Bruges), Instituto de Estudos Europeus da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, University of Chicago Law School, and the London School of Economics. He is a graduate of the European University Institute and the University of Lisbon.
This event will take place on Thursday, April 12, 2012 from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. at the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall, Ground Floor, Boston, MA.
For more information, please contact Professor Daniela Caruso.
A Lecture by Donald Light - "The Role of Law in the Epidemic of Harmful Side Effects from Prescription Drugs: The Risk Proliferation Syndrome"
Monday, April 23, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Donald Light titled "The Role of Law in the Epidemic of Harmful Side Effects from Prescription Drugs: The Risk Proliferation Syndrome". This event is open to the public and will take place from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. in Barristers Hall.
Prescription drugs are one of the most beneficial parts of modern medicine. Yet they have become the major iatrogenic source of illness and death. This presentation will explain the Risk Proliferation Syndrome that centers around legal and regulatory practices harmful to society, science, medicine, and patients.
Donald Light has been the Lokey Visiting Professor at Stanford University and is a professor of comparative health care at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A founding fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, he has received the William Foote Whyte distinguished career award for applied sociology and is the editor of The Risks of Prescription Drugs (Columbia 2010).
BU Law Commencement
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The commencement ceremony for BU Law is scheduled for Sunday, May 20th at 9:00 a.m. in Agganis Arena (925 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston). We are pleased to announce that this year's commencement speaker is Roderick L. Ireland, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
For a list of Boston area hotels, please visit: http://www.bu.edu/alumni/need/alumni-benefits/boston-area-hotels/
Additional commencement details will be posted as soon as they are available.
BU Law's Reunion Gala Dinner and Silver Shingle Awards Presentation
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Save the date for BU Law's 2012 Reunion Gala Dinner and Silver Shingle Awards! Additional event details will be posted as soon as they are available.