Justin O'Brien

WP 52. November 24, 2014

Justin O'Brien, Fixing the Fix: Governance, Culture, Ethics, and the Extending Perimeter of Financial Regulation

2014 Nov 24

Too Big to Fail or Too Hard to Remember: Lessons from the New Deal and the Triumph, Tragedy, and Lost Legacy of James M. Landis

11:00am to 12:50pm

Location: 

Milstein East B, Harvard Law School

11-11:45am: Keynote and response
12-12:50pm: Roundtable discussion

James M. Landis – scholar, administrator, advocate, and political adviser – is known for his seminal contribution to the creation of the modern system of market regulation in the USA. As a highly influential participant in the policies of the New Deal, he drafted the statute that was to become the foundation for securities regulation in the US, and, by extension, the founding principle of financial market regulation across the world. A former Dean of Harvard Law School (1937-1946), he was also a complex and...

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2014 May 23

Institutional Corruption and the Capital Markets: Financial Benchmark and Currency Manipulation, Enforcement Strategies, and Regulatory Redesign

8:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Milstein West, Harvard Law School

In the second of an international series of four major workshops, scholars, practitioners, and regulators explore the divergent enforcement agendas followed in the aftermath of the financial benchmark and broader currency manipulation scandals. The workshop builds on the pioneering work of lab on institutional corruption and the Centre for Law, Markets, and Regulation at UNSW on the dynamics of regulatory policy. It assesses the trajectories of the investigative and enforcement process across multiple markets and fuses detailed empirical analysis with recommendations for policy reform...

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