Michael Benza, J.D., Visiting Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Jonathan L. Entin, J.D., Associate Dean, Professor of Law and Political Science, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Shannon French, Ph.D., Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, Case Western Reserve University

A Case Western Reserve University health care policy discussion with Bob Binstock Ph.D., Professor of Aging, Health, and Society; J.B. Silvers Ph.D., Treuhaft Professor of Health Systems Management; Joe White Ph.D., Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy

The Symposium addresses a wide range of issues in the corporate and securities field, including: Shareholder voting, SEC proxy rules on shareholder voting and shareholder proposals; the role of proxy advisory services; the validity of shareholder initiatives in corporate governance; the role of hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds in corporate governance; the role of tender offers and defenses against tender offers (including staggered boards and poison pills); the propriety of current levels of executive compensation, the effectiveness of various elements of executive compensation as appropriate incentives, the role of shareholders in approving executive compensation; and the effects of devices that separate voting rights from the economic interests of common stock ownership.

Pt 1
Pt 2
Pt 3

This symposium integrates theory and legal practice in the area of forgiveness and reconciliation.

• The first panel discusses forgiveness and apology from the philosophical and social science perspectives.
• Keynoter Jens Meierhenrich (Harvard) shares insights from his recent book, The Legacies of Law (Cambridge 2008) on the function of legal norms and institutions in the transition to and from apartheid in South Africa.
• In the second panel, legal scholars discuss forgiveness in the context of family law, with an emphasis on healing divorce; and therapeutic jurisprudence, moving from adversarialism to greater mutuality in the practice of law. In addition, an activist who promotes full disclosure in medical malpractice cases speaks about the actual and potential impact of his organization's approach on health care costs.

Pt 1: Perspectives
Pt 2: Meierhenrich keynote
Pt 3: Legal Practice

Paul Clement, Partner, King & Spalding; former Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice; Senior Fellow, Supreme Court Institute and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center