Release date: Feb. 10, 2003
Contact: Elaine Justice, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0643 or ejustic@emory.edu

Emory's Thrower Symposium Examines a Post-Enron World

Judges, attorneys and top business experts will examine the effects of increasing global competition on the regulation of business during Emory Law Journal's 2003 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium Thursday, Feb. 20. This year's symposium, "Business Law: The Impact of Competition on Regulation," will feature discussions on how competition affects antitrust law and insider trading, with some focus on how Enron has permanently changed all of business law.

The symposium is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Emory Law School's Tull Auditorium, 1301 Clifton Rd.

Panelists will examine a number of issues facing business law as the global market expands. Judge Frank Easterbrook of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals will be keynote speaker. He is the author of numerous books and articles on antitrust and the economics of corporate law.

Other presenters and topics will include:

• Jonathan Macey, J. DuPratt White Professor of Law at Cornell School of Law, "Regulatory Globalization as a Response to Regulatory Competition";

• Fred McChesney, James B. Haddad Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School, formerly on the Emory law faculty; "Antitrust Twenty-Five Years Later: Competition in the Field and for the Field";

• Barry Adler, New York University School of Law, and Henry Butler, James Farley Professor of Economics, The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, "On the 'Delawarization of Bankruptcy' Debate";

• Henry Manne, dean emeritus, George Mason University Law School, "Privatizing Deregulation - the Case of Insider Trading and Corporate Governance"; and

• George Benston, John H. Harland Professor of Finance at Emory's Goizueta Business School, "The Regulation of Accountants and Pubic Accounting Before and After Enron."

Admission is free and advance registration is available but not required. To pre-register, contact Pat Thomas at pthomas@law.emory.edu, or 404-727-6831. CLE credits will be offered at $3 per hour and can be obtained by pre-registering or at the door. CLE credits also will be offered for certified public accounts and registered public accountants. The symposium qualifies for approximately five credit hours. Contact the Georgia State Board of Accountancy for further details.

The Thrower Symposium is part of an endowed lecture series sponsored by the family of Emory law alumnus Randolph W. Thrower, and hosted by the law school and the Emory law Journal. Thrower, a senior partner at the Atlanta law firm Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP, was U.S. commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service from 1969 to 1971. He served on the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession from 1987 to 1993.

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