Vanderbilt Law School welcomes Paul Atkins, JD’83, Chairman of the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., BA’81, JD’84, for the 2026 Sims Lecture, which takes place on Monday, April 6, from 12:10 – 1:10 p.m. CT.
Atkins and Hagerty (R-TN) will sit down with Amanda Rose, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Law & Business Program, to discuss cutting-edge topics in regulation, from digital assets to capital formulation and the role of Congress and the SEC in securities markets oversight.