This will be a full-day conference on the prospects and directions of reform in insurance regulation. Cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, Georgia State University, and the Risk Foundation, the conference will include papers by well-known insurance and financial services scholars. Subjects will include the optional federal charter and its implications; the various directions that insurance regulatory reform might take; antitrust and insurance regulation; convergence of the insurance, banking, and securities industries; and insurance and international trade. Panelists include Robert Detlefsen of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies; Martin Grace, Robert Klein, and Harold Skipper of the department of risk management and insurance at Georgia State; Robert E. Litan of the Brookings Institution; Hal Scott of Harvard Law School; and AEI’s Peter J. Wallison.