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The University of Texas School of Law will host an event that will bring nationally renowned experts on capital markets, securities markets, and economics to Austin.

On Friday, November 11, 2011, UT Law will host the Massey Prize Symposium, an event that will honor Robert E. Litan, the inaugural recipient of the $50,000 Massey Prize for Research in Law, Innovation, and Capital Markets. The Symposium is free and open to the public.

The event runs from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and features:

New York Times senior financial writer Diana Henriques, author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, who will give the keynote on “Mixed Signals: Madoff, the Meltdown, and the Media”

Charles R. Plott, professor of economics and political science at the California Institute of Technology, who will discuss how to understand the way capital markets actually function in a talk entitled “Economics Experiments and Securities Markets”

Massey Prize recipient Robert Litan, who will discuss the impact of the 2010 Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was designed to more closely regulate the banking industry, in a talk entitled “The Political Economy of Dodd-Frank: A Look Ahead”

A roundtable discussion on the “Regulation of Financial Markets” moderated by Thomas W. Gilligan, the dean of the McCombs School of Business. Henriques, Litan, and Plott, will be joined by Paul Atkins, a former Securities and Exchange commissioner; and Edward S. Knight, executive vice president, general counsel, and chief regulatory officer of NASDAQ.

Dr. Litan is the vice president for research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, where he oversees the Foundation’s extensive program for funding data collection and research relating to entrepreneurship and economic growth. He is also a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he was previously vice president. His book, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (coauthored with Kauffman Foundation President Carl Schramm and New York University Professor William Baumol) has been translated into ten languages and is used as a college text around the world.

The event will be held at the University of Texas School of Law, 727 East Dean Keeton Street, Austin, Texas. Morning events will be held in the Francis Auditorium (Townes Hall, 2.114); afternoon events will be held in the Eidman Courtroom (Connally Center, 2.306).

For more information, please visit the Massey Prize Symposium webpage at: http://www.utexas.edu/law/massey/index.html

A practice question will be administered under testing conditions to all 1L sections.

1Ls/2Ls: To apply, please submit a copy of your resume, law school transcript (2Ls only), and a one-page essay that describes why you want to attend the conference and why you think it would be beneficial to you, by 5 p.m. on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, to Rémi Ratliff, Director of Judicial Programs, at rratliff@law.utexas.edu.