Business Law Workshop
This workshop seminar will focus on cutting-edge research in business law and economics. Most weeks will feature a leading outside scholar presenting a work-in-progress relating to current issues in business law.
The range of subject matter includes economically-oriented work on business law, securities regulation, tax, or commercial law. Many of the papers presented will likely deal with normative questions of private ordering versus public regulation, and will examine problems that arise in both the private and public law spheres. Similarly, it is expected that many of the papers will consider social welfare effects, such as the effect of law and regulation on entrepreneurship, innovation, capital formation, and financial markets.
Students will be responsible for written assessments of the paper being presented, and will be evaluated based on their writings and their participation in the workshop. Students' critiques may be made available to the speaker.
Upcoming Events
Business Law Workshop - Jonathon Zytnick, Georgetown University
Speaker
- Jonathon Zytnick Professor, Georgetown
Jonathon Zytnick presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.
Abstract Although mutual funds have distinctive voting patterns, little is known about whether their votes reflect their underlying investors’ preferences. I use novel proprietary data on individual shareholder voting and fund ownership to compare the voting preferences of individual investors to those of their funds. Fund votes have no relation to the votes of their underlying customers, with the sole exception of sorting by ideological individuals into small, like-minded ESG funds. Limited attention provides some explanation for the minimal ideological sorting: investors choose investments, both equities and funds, based on the investments’ blunt ideological features but not on subtle features.
Business Law Workshop - Sergio Gramitto Ricci, Hofstra University
Speaker
- Sergio Gramitto Ricci Professor, Hofstra
Sergio Gramitto Ricci presents an original paper in the Business Law Workshop