| March 5-6, 2009: |
Third
Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute
Philadelphia, PA |
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Hosted
by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Karl
Okamoto, director of Drexel Law’s Business
and Entrepreneurship Law Program and associate professor
of law, will serve as a faculty panelist during
this
institute, where attorneys will earn continuing education
credits. |
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| June
7-10, 2009: |
Association
of American Law Schools Conference on Business
Associations: Taking
Stock of the Field and Corporate Social Responsibility
Long Beach, CA |
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Professor Karl
Okamoto will give a talk on law and finance. |
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| June
10-12, 2009: |
Association
of American Law Schools Workshop on Transactional
Law
Long Beach, CA |
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Professor Karl
Okamoto will give a talk on teaching transactional
lawyering. |
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| Feb.
6,
2009: |
Evaluating
Legal Origins Theory Symposium sponsored by
Brigham Young University Law Review
Provo, UT |
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Karl
Okamoto, director of Drexel Law’s Business
and Entrepreneurship Law Program and associate
professor of law, appeared as a discussant at
a panel that focused on legal origins theory
in the context of the current financial crisis.
Okamoto offered commentary on papers on “Law
and Finance” presented by Associate Professor
Ruth Aguilera of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and on “Legal Origins
Theory Through the Prism of the Current Economic
Crisis” presented by Lisa Fairfax, director
of the Business Law Program at the University
of Maryland School of Law. |
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| Feb.
4, 2009: |
Seeing the Future for Investors and Their Lawyers in Philadelphia
Philadelphia,
PA |
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Dozens
of Drexel students, faculty, and area lawyers
participated in a lively panel discussion held
at the Drexel University Earle Mack School of
Law. More than two dozen new lawyers students who were completing a unique program in transactional lawyering joined scores of students who are completing Drexel’s nationally ranked business programs in entrepreneurship.The
discussion featured a group of prominent members
of Philadelphia’s business community who
understand the region’s economy and the
role investors and their lawyers play. Click HERE for
more information. |
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| Nov.
21 and 22, 2008: |
Students
Attend National Gathering of Business Attorneys,
Meet with SEC Director
Washington, DC |
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Karl
Okamoto, director of Drexel Law’s Business
and Entrepreneurship Law Program and associate
professor of law, and twenty-one
Drexel Law students attended the Fall Meeting
of the American Bar Association Business Law
Section. Click HERE for
more information. |
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| Oct.
23-25, 2008 |
Law and Entrepreneurship Retreat
Focuses Scholarship
Philadelphia, PA
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Drexel
Law’s Business and Entrepreneurship Law
Program sponsored the Third Annual Law & Entrepreneurship
Retreat, a gathering of select corporate and
intellectual property scholars who share an interest
in scholarship involving business enterprise. Click HERE for
more information. |
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| June
5, 2008 |
Measuring
the Tax Subsidy in Private Equity and Hedge
Fund Compensation
Prague,
Czech Republic |
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Professor
Okamoto again presented his paper (as
below) to the Annual Meeting of the Financial
Management
Association. A preliminary draft of this
paper is available at the SSRN website (in the previous
entry, below). |
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| March
7, 2008 |
Measuring
the Tax Subsidy in Private Equity and Hedge
Fund Compensation
University
of University
of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Law
Tuscon, AZ
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Professor
Okamoto presented his paper (co-authored with
Professor Thomas Brennan) to the Law & Entrepreneurship
Workshop at University of Arizona School of Law.
A preliminary draft of this paper is available
at the SSRN website by clicking HERE. |
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| Sept.
28, 2007 |
Impossible
Frontiers: A Faculty
Colloquium
Drexel Law
Philadelphia, PA
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Business
Professor Tom Brennan of the Business
and Entrepreneurship Law Program presented
his paper “Impossible
Frontiers.” Click HERE for
more information. |
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| Oct.
30, 2007 |
Private
Equity: What are the Lessons for Public Companies?
Drexel Law in Collaboration with the
LeBow Center for Corporate Governance
Philadelphia, PA |
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This
panel discussion was part of the “Inside the
Boardroom” series
for C-level executives and board members. Click HERE for
more information. |
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| Nov.
30, 2007 |
Does
Sarbanes-Oxley Foster the Existence of Ethical
Executive Role Models in the Corporation? |
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Professor
Joan MacLeod Heminway from The University of
Tennessee School of Law presented her paper
“Does Sarbanes-Oxley Foster the Existence of
Ethical Executive Role Models in the Corporation?” at Drexel Law. Ms. Heminway is a corporate and
securities
law
scholar. Professor Heminway's biography can be found HERE. |
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| Nov.
29, 2007 |
No
Seat at the Table: A Conference on Women and
Corporate Boards
Drexel Law
Philadelphia, PA |
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Drexel
Law,
in conjunction with the LeBow Center for Corporate
Governance, hosted this conference. Click HERE for
more information. |