Business Law Breakfast – Archive

2019–2020 

Thursday, January 23, 2020 
Antitrust and Big Tech: What the Future Holds 
Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice 
Benjamin Klein, UCLA School of Law Visiting Professor and Professor Emeritus of Economics at UCLA 

2018–2019 

Thursday, April 25, 2019 
Current Issues in Securities Law and Enforcement 
Michael S. Piwowar, Executive Director of the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets and former Commissioner of the Securities & Exchange Commission 

Thursday, March 21, 2019 
Litigation Funding Comes of Age: Trends and Ethics 
Marla Decker, Lake Whillans 
John Harabedian, Legal Counsel of Bentham IMF 
David Marcus, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law 

Tuesday, October 30, 2018 
A New Chapter in Professional Responsibility 
Neil Wertlieb, Retired Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP 

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 
SALT Restriction: California’s Response to the New Federal Tax Law 
Kirk Stark, Barrall Family Professor of Tax Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law 

2017–2018 

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights 
Adam Winkler, UCLA School of Law 

Friday, January 26, 2018 
Wells Fargo: Observations on a Calamity 
Howell Jackson, James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School 
Michael Halloran, Partner, Halloran, Farkas & Kittila LLP and former EVP and General Counsel of Bank of America 
Kenneth Merchant, Deloitte & Touche Chair of Accountancy and Professor of Accounting, USC Marshall School of Business 
Sung Hui Kim, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law and Faculty Director, Program of In-House Counsel, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy 

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 
Why The Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives 
Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist 
Richard Marmaro, Head of Skadden’s West Coast SEC Enforcement and White Collar Practice 

Friday, October 6, 2017 
“Baby, You Can Drive My Car”: Autonomous Cars and the Law
J
ennifer Cohen, Government Affairs, LADOT 
Bryant Walker Smith, Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and University of South Carolina Schools of Law and Engineering 
John Villasenor, UCLA Schools of Public Affairs, Management, Engineering and Law 
Elizabeth Pollman, Loyola Law School 

2016–2017 

Monday, April 10, 2017 
Tax Reform: The State of Play 
Victor Fleischer, Co-Chief Tax Counsel on Senate Finance Committee 

Friday, March 24, 2017 
Too Big to Jail 
Brandon Garrett, University of Virginia School of Law 

Thursday, February 2, 2017 
New Issues for Corporate Governance Under Delaware Law: A Conversation with Former Chief Justice Myron T. Steele 
Myron T. Steele, Partner, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP and former Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court 
Stephen M. Bainbridge, William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law 
Arnie Pinkston, Director, Janus Capital Group; Director, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board; and former EVP and General Counsel of Allergan 

Thursday, October 27, 2016 
Brexit: What’s Next 
Charles Ries, Vice President, International at RAND 
Bernadette Greene, Deputy Consul General from the British Consulate-General in Los Angeles 
Moderator: Kal Raustiala, Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations; Faculty Director, UCLA International Education Office 

2015–2016 

April 18, 2016 
Apple and the FBI: Can We Achieve a Balance Between Individual Privacy and Public Security? 
Eugene Volokh 
Richard M. Re 
Kristen Eichensehr 

April 6, 2016 
2016 IPO Study 
Frank Lopez and Philippa Bond, Proskauer Rose, LLP 

February 29, 2016 
Tax Policy 2017: Proposals and Prospects for Significant Tax Reform under the 45th President 
Kirk Stark, Barrall Family Professor of Tax Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law and Faculty Director, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy 

January 27, 2016 
Reforming FIFA: The Lessons of U.S. Corporate Governance Policies for International Sports Governing Authorities 
Steven A. Bank, Paul Hastings Professor of Business Law, UCLA School of Law 

November 10, 2015 
Recent Developments in Whistleblower Law 
Michael M. Farhang, former federal prosecutor and partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 
Aaron M. May, founding partner of Huang Ybarra Singer & May LLP 
Jordan A. Thomas, partner at Labaton Sucharow 

October 26, 2015 
Do Takeover Laws Matter? 
Steven Davidoff Solomon, Professor of Law; Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy 

2014–2015 

April 23, 2015 
The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption 
Stuart Banner, UCLA School of Law 

December 10, 2014 
Indispensable and Other Myths: Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It 
Michael B. Dorff, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School 
Moderated by Stephen M. Bainbridge, William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law 

November 7, 2014 
Justice Deferred Is Justice Denied: We Must End Our Failed Experiment in Deferring Corporate Criminal Prosecutions 
Peter R. Reilly, Texas A&M University School of Law 

October 16, 2014 
Corporate Cybersecurity Challenges 
Kristen Eichensehr, UCLA Law 
James Aquilina, Stroz Friedberg 
Grant Davis-Denny, Munger Tolles 
Jeffrey Rabkin, California Attorney General’s Office 

2013–2014 

April 30, 2014 
Shareholder-Director Engagement in a World of Shareholder Activism 
James Woolery, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 

March 20, 2014 
The Saga of Jefferson County’s Successful Journey Through Chapter 9 
Kenneth Klee, UCLA School of Law 

February 19, 2014 
Bitcoin: A Currency for the Digital Age? 
Patrick Murck, General Counsel, The Bitcoin Foundation 

December 19, 2013 
Startup America 
Doug Rand, Assistant Director for Entrepreneurship, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President 

October 22, 2013 
One Step Ahead: Private Equity and Hedge Funds After the Global Financial Crisis 
Timothy Spangler, Director of Research, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, and Partner and Chair of Investment Funds Group, Kaye Scholer LLP 

January 15, 2013 
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street 
Neil Barofsky, Adjunct Professor of Law and Senior Research Fellow, NYU School of Law 

2012–2013 

September 27, 2012 
Executive Superstars, Peer Groups and Over-Compensation – Cause, Effect and Solution 
Charles M. Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance, Professor of Finance, Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance 

March 2, 2012 
Dodd-Frank in Theory and Practice 
Troy Paredes, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner 

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