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Monday, November 9, 2009
 
 
EVENTS
Is Excessive Regulation and Litigation Eroding U.S. Financial Competitiveness?
With an Address by SEC Commissioner Paul S. Atkins
The Brookings Institution
Date: Friday, April 20, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

Last November, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation--a group of academic experts and market specialists--issued the first comprehensive report on whether excessive regulation and litigation were causing a migration of financial transactions away from the United States. The report concluded there was strong evidence of this possibility and recommended various steps to restore a better balance in regulating financial services in the United States. Since the committee’s report was presented, two other studies on U.S. financial competitiveness have been completed--one by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and one other by the United States Chamber of Commerce. Key elements of the committee’s report will be presented by the authors, and panelists will discuss its findings and the prospects for legislative or regulatory action based on its recommendations. 

This conference is cosponsored by AEI and the Brookings Institution.

 
Agenda
8:45 a.m.  
Registration
 
 
 
 
9:00   
Introduction:  
Peter J. Wallison, AEI
 
 
 
9:15  
 
Panel I: State-Federal Relations
 
 
 
 
Presenter:  
Hal S. Scott, Harvard Law School
 
 
 
 
Panelists:  
Michael S. Greve, AEI
 
 
Kenneth E. Scott, Stanford Law School
 
 
 
10:30  
 
Panel II: Litigation Reform
 
 
 
 
Presenter:  
Robert E. Litan, Brookings Institution
 
 
 
 
Panelists:  
Merritt B. Fox, Columbia Law School
 
 
Kenneth E. Scott, Stanford Law School
 
 
 
Noon  
Luncheon
 
 
 
 
 
Keynote Speaker
Paul S. Atkins, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
 
 
 
2:00 p.m. 
 
Panel III: Reform of the Securities and Exchange Commission
 
 
 
 
Presenter:  
Robert R. Glauber, Harvard Law School
 
 
 
 
Panelists:  
Edward F. Greene, Citigroup
 
 
Kenneth M. Lehn, University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 
3:30  
 
Panel IV: Shareholder Rights
 
 
 
 
Presenter:  
Allen Ferrell, Harvard Law School
 
 
 
 
Panelists:  
Douglas H. Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
 
 
Heidi M. Schooner, Catholic University of America
 
 
 
5:00  
Adjournment
 
 
 
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