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The Business Law Conferences at the University of Maryland School of Law regularly address cutting-edge issues on a variety of business-related topics. Speakers and panelists include nationally recognized lawyers, judges, and scholars active in public and private practice, where legal issues are pervasive and increasingly complex. Past conferences topics have included the establishment of separate business courts, the role of mutual funds in the financial system and their relationships to investors and issuers, and the trend among numerous courts toward the imposition of a common law duty running from a corporation’s board of directors to the corporation’s creditors. Recent forums have also focused on the Enron scandal and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, with Senator Paul Sarbanes of Maryland speaking at the latter.
Papers by conference speakers also appear in the Business Law Program’s journal, The Journal of Business and Technology Law.
Past Conferences
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Five Years Later: Assessing Its Impact, Charting Its Future
Sixth Annual Business Law Conference, October 18-19, 2007
The Fall and Rise of Federal Corporation Law
Fifth Annual Business Law Conference, October 13, 2006
"Criminalization of Corporate Law" Roundtable
April 21, 2006
Twilight in the Zone of Insolvency:
Fiduciary Duty and Creditors of Troubled Companies
Fourth Annual Business Law Conference, November 4, 2005
Women and the "New" Corporate Governance
April 7-8, 2005
The $7 Trillion Question: Mutual Funds & Investor Welfare
Third Annual Business Law Conference, November 5, 2004
