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About the event:

The conference remembered the late Professor Brigitte Haar who passed away much too early this spring. Brigitte was Professor of Private German, European, and International Business Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). The event brought together scholars who were close personal and professional companions of Brigitte and shared her passion for comparative and interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, finance and economics. Speakers presented research that related to Brigitte’s oeuvre and indicated how her way of thinking about corporate governance and finance provided a trajectory for innovative scholarship in the field that pushes the knowledge frontier.

The conference was organised by The Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance at Goethe University, The Research Center “Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe“ (SAFE), and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Organisers:

Rainer Haselmann, Program Director, Research Center SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt; Klaus J. Hopt, Director and Emeritus Professor, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and ECGI; Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation, and ECGI; Tobias H. Tröger, Professor of Private Law, Trade and Business Law, Jurisprudence | Research Center SAFE | Center for Financial Studies and ECGI.

Programme

Tuesday 24 September 2019
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Registration & Coffee

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Disrupting Conventions: Brigitte Haar's contributions to New Legal Thought about Money and Finance

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Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions

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The Overstated Stewardship Potential of Index Funds

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Lunch

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N.N

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ESG Disclosure and Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis

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Coffee break

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ESMA: Reflections at an Inflection Point

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Coffee break

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Venture Capital-backed firms and Trade Sales: Does Corporate Law Get It Right?

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Stewardship and Shareholder Engagement in German Corporate Governance

Speakers‘ Dinner

Speakers

Katharina Pistor

Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Fellow, Research Member

Klaus Hopt

Emeritus Professor
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Fellow, Research Member

Jill Fisch

Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Research Member

Joseph McCahery

Professor of International Economic Law and Professor of Financial Market Regulation
Tilburg University Faculty of Law and Tilburg Law and Economics Center
Research Member

Niamh Moloney

Professor of Law
Law Department, London School of Economics
Research Member

Peter Muelbert

Professor of Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law and Banking Law
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Research Member

Contact

Elaine McPartlan
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
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