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.

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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

Chris Hansen, Senior National Staff Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union

Panelists: Peter Brooks, a lecturer of Comparative Literature at Princeton University's Center for Human Values and a Mellon Visiting Professor; James Jacobs, the Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University School of Law; and Nicholas Johnson, a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.  Moderator:  Stanley Katz, a Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School.