Professor Ray Warner will deliver the keynote address at this week’s “Re-Imagining Rescue” Insolvency Conference in
Nottingham, United Kingdom. The conference is being held by the INSOL Europe Academic Forum.
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On Thursday, June 4, Professor Michael Perino presented his paper Is the Price Right? An Empirical Study of Fee-Setting in Securities Class Actions (co-authored with Lynn A. Baker and Charles Silver) at the National Business Law Scholars Conference held at Seton Hall Law School. The paper will be published this fall in the Columbia Law Review.
Professor Ann Goldweber presented on a panel at the NYC Elder Abuse Conference, co-sponsored by St. John’s University School of Law, NYC Department for the Aging, and NYC Human Resources Administration, among others, on June 3, 2015. The panel was entitled “Prosecuting Fraud and Neglect” and Professor Goldweber presented on financial abuse of the elderly and civil legal remedies available to victims. Also presenting on the panel were Kristen Kane, Chief of the Elder Fraud Unit at the Queens County District Attorney’s Office and Arlene Markarian, Bureau Chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau/Elder Abuse Unit at the King’s County District Attorney’s Office.
On May 22, Professor Jeff Sovern presented a paper he co-authored with Professors Elayne Greenberg, Paul Kirgis, and Yuxiang Liu at the American Council on Consumer Interests, “‘Whimsy Little Contracts’ with Unexpected Consequences: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Understanding of Arbitration Agreements.”