Academic

If you are planning to attend the Law & Society Association's Annual Meeting at the end of this month, you may be interested in our conference-within-a-conference on Law & Entrepreneurship. Here are the paper sessions:

Scheduled Time: Thu, May 27 - 10:15am - 12:00pm

Title: Law and Entrepreneurship: Corporate Finance 1211

Session Participants:

Chair: Gordon Smith (Brigham Young University) 

Law Firms and IPO Pricing

*Rob Beard (University of Illinois)

Choice of Organizational Form: Preliminary Data

*Brian Broughman (Indiana University)

Open Source and Financial Regulation: Technology to Improve Securities Disclosure and Financial Regulators

*Erik Gerding (University of New Mexico)

Law Entrepreneurs

*Larry E Ribstein (University of Illinois)

Scheduled Time: Thu, May 27 - 2:30pm - 4:15pm

Title: Law and Entrepreneurship: Intellectual Property 1411

Chair/Discussant: Darian M Ibrahim (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Commercializing Data

*Shubha Ghosh (University of Wisconsin)

Governing Networked Production: Private Ordering in the Biopharmaceutical and Semiconductor Industries

*Matthew C Jennejohn (Delaware Court of Chancery)

Relationships, Technology Transfer, and the Limits of (Intellectual) Property

*Peter Lee (University of California, Davis)

An Empirical Study of Litigious Non-Practicing Entities

*Michael Risch (West Virginia University)

Scheduled Time: Fri, May 28 - 12:30pm - 2:15pm

Title: Law and Entrepreneurship: Venture Capital and Private Equity 2311

Session Participants:

Chair: Brian Broughman (Indiana University) 

What Killed the Venture Backed IPO?

*Robert Bartlett (University of California, Berkeley)

The Evolution and Renegotiation of Venture Capital Contracts

*Ola Bengtsson (University of Illinois)

Institutional Investment in Listed Private Equity

*Douglas Cumming (York University), Grant Fleming (Wilshire Associates), Sofia Johan (Tilburg University)

The New Exit in Venture Capital

*Darian M Ibrahim (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Discussant: Gordon Smith (Brigham Young University) dgsmith@gmail.com

Scheduled Time: Fri, May 28 - 8:15am - 10:00am

Title: Law and Entrepreneurship: Social Values 2111

Chair: Karl S Okamoto (Drexel Univesity)

Entrepreneurship and Employee Ownership

*Matthew T. Bodie (Saint Louis University)

The Potential of Laws and Procedures Governing Business Entities in Facilitating Women's Entrepreneurial Development in the Horticulture Sector of Zimbabwe

*Rosalie K Katsande (University of Zimbabwe)

The Venn Diagram of Business Lawyering Judgments: Toward a Theory of Practical Metadisciplinarity (download)

*Jeffrey M. Lipshaw (Suffolk University)

Making Money While Making a Difference: Can Law Help Social Entrepreneurship Transform the World?

*Antony Page (Indiana University, Indianapolis), Robert Katz (Indiana University, Indianapolis)

The Release of Energy

*Gordon Smith (Brigham Young University)