2009 Law & Business Conference
New Views of Corporate Separateness
The Tenth Annual Law & Business Conference at Vanderbilt University, November 6, 2009
Made possible through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
9:00 a.m. Session I- International and Comparative Approaches to Corporate Separateness
Alan Dignam, School of Law, Queen May College, University of London - "Abdicating Risk Allocation: The Changing Nature of Veil Lifting in the United Kingdom"
Martin Gelter, Fordham University Law School - "Corporate Separateness in Continental Europe"
Hideki Kanda, University of Tokyo - "Tax and Other Determinants of the Barriers of the Corporate Box"
Ciyun Zhu, School of Law, Tsinghua University - "From Regulatory to Relief: Comments on the 2005 China Corporation Law and Disregard of the Corporate Entity"
12:00 p.m. Lunch and Keynote Speaker – Professor Henry Hansmann, Yale Law School
- Panel Discussion: Margaret Blair, Vanderbilt University; Albert Choi, University of Virginia (visiting at Harvard Law); and Ed Iacobucci, University of Toronto.
- Response: Professors Hansmann and Kenneth Ayotte, Northwestern University
2:15 p.m. Session II Empirical Studies of Disregarding Corporate Separateness
Christina Boyd, University of Buffalo (political science) & David Hoffman, Temple Law School, "A Closer Look at Veil Piercing in Federal District Courts" (forthcoming in Northwestern Law Review)
Peter Oh, University of Pittsburgh Law School - "An Empirical Analysis of Piercing the Corporate Veil in the United Kingdom and the United States"
Alan Palmiter, Wake Forest Law School - "Reflections on the Wake Forest Empirical Study" (43 Wake Forest Law Review 341 (2008) and Other Empirical Studies of Piercing the Veil)
