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

A regional conference hosted by Princeton University`s Policy Research Institute for the Region (PRIOR)

Pt 1 - National Perspective - Thomas Kean
Pt 2 - Vulnerability
Pt 3 - Cooperation Issues
Pt 4 - Societal Resilience - Stephen E. Flynn
Pt 5 - Public Health Preparedness

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

Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellín, Colombia from 2004 to 2007.

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