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Conference Announcement: Fiduciary Law at Boston University

By Lawrence Solum

The Role of Fiduciary Law and Trust in the 21st Century:
A Conference Inspired by the Work of Tamar Frankel
October 29, 2010
Boston University School of Law

Boston University School of Law is proud to honor Professor Tamar Frankel with a conference featuring outstanding scholars and legal practitioners giving papers and commentaries on the role of fiduciary law and trust in the 21st century. Boston University Law Review will publish the papers and proceedings.

About the conference
Fiduciary law is designed to encourage people to rely on experts and other fiduciaries, to facilitate fair and efficient terms of those relationships, and to prevent (and provide remedies for) abuse of power entrusted to the fiduciary. This Conference highlights the nature and scope of fiduciary law, and its relationship to other legal doctrines and categories. It considers how fiduciary law can be illuminated by viewing it through the lens of such disciplines as economics, psychology, history, political science, and philosophy. It also investigates current debates about recognizing fiduciary duties in the determination of executive compensation, in the prohibition of insider trading under the federal securities laws, in the largely unregulated world of securities and mortgage broker-dealers, and in modern capital structure and governance. It further explores the relevance of fiduciary law principles to the abuse of power by public officials and to other issues of democratic legitimacy, as well as the relevance of constraints on political power to the duties of private actors.

Participants in the conference

I. The nature of fiduciary law and its relationship to other legal doctrines and categories

Rafael Chodos, Author/lecturer/attorney
Deborah DeMott, Duke University School of Law
Alan Feld, BU School of Law
Kevin Outterson, BU School of Law
Larry Ribstein, University of Illinois College of Law

II. An interdisciplinary view of fiduciary law

Joshua Getzler, The Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford
Richard Holton, MIT, Department of Philosophy
Donald Langevoort, Georgetown University Law Center
David Seipp, BU School of Law
Robert Sitkoff, Harvard Law School

Lunch
Remarks by Tamar Frankel, BU School of Law

III. Current issues in fiduciary law

Arthur Laby, Rutgers School of Law, Camden
Donna Nagy, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
Frederick Tung, BU School of Law
Cheryl Wade, St. John?s University School of Law
David Walker, BU School of Law

IV. Public servants and private fiduciaries

Margaret Brinig, Notre Dame Law School
Gary Lawson, BU School of Law
Ethan Leib, UC Hastings College of the Law; and David Ponet, UNICEF
Charles Whitehead, Cornell Law School

V. Roundtable

Wendy Gordon, BU School of Law
Laurence Kotlikoff, BU Economics
Andrew Pitts, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Peter Rosenblum, Foley, Hoag
James Post, BU School of Management
Kenneth W. Simons, BU School of Law
Eric Sirri, Babson College, Finance
All are welcome to attend. There is no registration fee, but if you plan to attend, please RSVP to Andrea Larsen, alarsen@bu.edu. If you have academic questions about the program, please contact Professor Kenneth W. Simons,ksimons@bu.edu.

For more information about the conference, please see the BU School of Law website:
http://www.bu.edu/law/events/upcoming/

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on October 06, 2010 (boomark / email).