A rich program of symposia, forums, conferences and seminars on emerging and topical issues are sponsored by our Centers of Excellence, our law journals, and our fellowship programs.
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Symposium - The CFPB After a Year Co-Sponsored by the Center for Business Law and Regulation and the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law March 2, 2012
This conference will look at the CFPB in its first year and evaluate what it has accomplished so far, and future initiatives it may undertake. It will bring together CFPB officials, practitioners, and academics who are uniquely qualified to examine these issues. The participants will also discuss how best to protect consumer borrowers from lender overreaching in a manner that is sensitive to the functioning of credit markets and the banking system.
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Symposium: Private Data/Public Good: Emerging Issues in Trade Secrets Law
Cosponsored by the Trade Secrets Institute and the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law
April 4, 2012
This inaugural symposium, to be held by the Trade Secrets Institute, will focus on emerging issues in trade secrets law and the tension between the rights of information owners and the public. The first panel will address data mining, at issue in the recent Sorrell v. IMS Health decision. The second panel will discuss the public health implications of trade secret protection. A welcome and introductory remarks will be given by the New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.
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Symposium - Comparative Approaches to Systemic Risk and Resolution
Sponsored by the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law and the The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law
February 25, 2011
This symposium took a comparative look at the different strategies that have been used to deal with systemic risk, both domestically and abroad. The Resolution Authority was considered in light of alternative domestic regimes, such as state insurance resolution, SIPC and the PBGC. The symposium also considered the approaches followed in Germany, the UK, the EU generally, and Canada. Finally, the symposium considered the sales of Chrysler and GM in bankruptcy.
Throughout, the symposium the complex interaction between market discipline and the role of governments in maintaining financial market stability was discussed. Dodd-Frank is neither the starting point nor the end point of the theoretical and policy discussions, and this program informed both.
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Symposium: The Evolving Legal Status of Adolescents, One Foot in Childhood and One in Adulthood
Sponsored by The Journal of Law and Policy and the The Center for Health, Science and Public Policy
March 18, 2011
At an interdisciplinary symposium held on March 18, entitled “Adolescents in Society: Their Evolving Legal Status,” panelists addressed the many complex issues that lie ahead for lawyers, educators, and others working with adolescents in the field.
Over 150 practitioners and scholars participated in the full-day symposium, co-sponsored by Brooklyn Law School’s Center for Health Science and Public Policy and the Journal of Law and Policy and organized by Professors Cynthia Godsoe and Karen Porter, the Executive Director of the Center.
At the heart of the discussions was the transformation of the rights and protections accorded adolescents over the past decade, whether through court decisions, legislation, or social change.
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David G. Trager Public Policy Symposium: Sharing the Blame: the Law and Morality of Punishing Collective Entities
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition and the Journal of Law and Policy
February 5, 2010
Does it make sense to impose blame on a group as a group, as opposed to its individual members? Even if blame is appropriate, how do we decide the proper form and amount of punishment? How do we even conceive of a group as having its own independent existence or identity? The answers to these questions have significant implications for the scope and enforcement of criminal law. The symposium sought to derive broad general insights from various academic disciplines and considered the practical legal applications of those findings. It also addressed the psychological processes that lead people to treat groups as having independent existence, and the moral and philosophical consequences of doing so.
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Theory-Practice Seminar: eHealth? New Challenges for Information Privacy and Security
Sponsored by the Center for Health, Science and Public Policy
October 8, 2009
The economic stimulus package signed by President Obama on February 17, 2009 included a $19 billion investment in health information technology. What changes will this unprecedented investment bring to the health care landscape? What rules should apply? What should be done to ensure compliance with and appropriate enforcement of privacy protections? These questions and many others were addressed by a panel of leading experts to discuss the issues as the nation prepares for a major transformation of American health care.
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Symposium: Getting it Right: Government's Role in Housing and Economic Development
Co-sponsored by the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship and the Journal of Law and Policy
March 27, 2009
Historically, all levels of government have taken an active role in housing and economic development. As the federal government undergoes a change in administrations during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, this conference took a fresh look at two of the key roles that government plays in this area.
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