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“Fundamentals of Anti-Money Laundering & Combating the Financing of Terrorism:
“Fundamentals of Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism: International Standards and U.S. Law and Practice”
Cosponsored by the Assocaition for Anti-Money Laundering Speiclaists (ACAMS)

August 11-15, 2008
5-day intensive course


George A. Leet Business Law Symposium

"Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance: Heroes Or Villains?"
2008 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance: Heroes Or Villains?"
Friday, October 31, 2008

2006 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"In the Crosshairs: The New Legal & Ethical Duties of Corporate Attorneys"
Friday, October 13, 2006

Speakers
*Harvey Goldschmid, Professor, Columbia University and former SEC Commissioner
*Richard Humes, Associate General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission
*Geoffrey Miller, Professor, New York University

Commentators
-Joseph Bauer, General Counsel, Lubrizol
-John Dunn, Jones Day
-Tom Morgan, Professor, George Washington University
-Geralyn Presti, General Counsel, Forest City
-Bob Rapp, Calfee Halter and Griswold


2004 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"Corporate Governance: Directors vs. Shareholders?"

Speakers:
*Commissioner Roel C. Campos, Securities and Exchange Commission
*Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Professor, Harvard Law School
*Jonathan R. Macey, Professor, Yale Law School


2002 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"The Role of Lawyers in Strategic Alliances"

Speakers Included:
Stephen Fraidin, Partner, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY
Rachelle C. Sampson, Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University


2000 George A. Leet Business Law Symposium
"Public Capital v. Private Capital"

Joseph A. Grundfest, Stanford University Law School

Dean Lindsey Cowen Lecture

"Is Corporate Law Still a Race to the Top?"
Judge Frank Easterbrook
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
April 8, 2008

"Appellate Courts & Independent Experts"
Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg, Chief Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
April 4-5, 2007

“Justified Monopoly? Common Strands in the Regulation of the Pharmaceutical & Telecommunications Industry”
Richard A. Epstein
James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School
March 30, 2005

"Economics, Market Behavior & the Law"
Vernon Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate
Professor of Economics and Law
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science
George Mason University
April 13, 2004

Environmental Law Lecture

"An Environmental Break Through?"
The Challenge of Climate Change, the Death of Environmentalism, & the Politics of Possibility
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
The Breakthrough Institute
February 13, 2008

Sugarman Tax Scholar-in-Residence Lecture

"Temporary-Effect Legislation & Fiscal Responsibility"
October 9, 2007 * 4:30-5:30 pm * Moot Courtroom
George K. Yin, Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law & Taxation & Class of 1966 Research Professor
Universtiy of Virginia

November 27, 2006
"Domestic and International Fringe Benefits: How and When to Tax a Free Lunch"
Richard Vann, Challis Professor of Law, University of Sydney
William K. Jacobs, Jr. Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

February 14, 2006
"Gifts, Gafts, Gefts - What Constitutes a 'Gift' and a Principled Tax Policy Justification Excluding It from a Donee's Income"
Professor Douglas Kahn
University of Michigan Law School

Supreme Court Preview Symposium

"Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal & the Constitution–Legal & Policy Perspectives"
Friday, February 4, 2005
8:30 AM-2:30 PM * Moot Courtroom

"Scheme Liability, Section 10(b), and Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific Atlanta”
Friday, October 5, 2007
8:45 AM - 12:45 PM * Moot Courtroom

"Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle"
September 12, 2007 * 4:30-5:30 pm
Henry N. Butler, Senior Lecturer and Executive Director, The Searle Center
Northwestern University School of Law

PERC-Nord Family Foundation Talk

"Markets & the Environment: Friends or Foes?"
Terry Anderson, Executive Director
PERC-The Center for Free Market Environmentalism
April 7, 2004

"Federalism & Environmental Policy"
Jonathan Adler, Assistant Professor
Case School of Law
February 11, 2004

"Environmental Religion in Theological Perspective"
Robert Nelson, Professor
School of Public Affairs
University of Maryland
September 25, 2003

Noontime Talk

"Reflections on Start-up.Com & govWorks"
Tom Herman, co-founder & former CTO, govWorks.com
March 26, 2004

Dinner & A Movie

"Start-Up.Com"
Tom Herman & govWorks.com
March 25, 2004