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Corporate governance panel discussions set 11:40 a.m., Oct. 9, 2006--Business leaders, lawyers, academics and journalists will gather on the University of Delaware campus this fall to discuss key issues in the increasingly important field of corporate governance. Two panel discussions are planned as part of an undergraduate governance course taught by Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance. The sessions are lively, entertaining and informative. The panel discussions are free and open to the public, although preregistration is requested. For information, call the center at (302) 831-6157. The first panel discussion will be held at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 12, in 104 Lerner Hall. It will consider shareholder fiduciary duties and whether those should be expanded, limited or even exist. Panelists will be Hank Barnett, former chief executive officer of Bethlehem Steel now of counsel with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Carol Hayes, associate general counsel and secretary of the Coca-Cola Co.; Henry Hu, Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance at the University of Texas School of Law; Simon Lorne, vice chairman and chief legal officer of Millennium Partners; Don Parsons, vice chancellor of the Delaware Chancery Court; John Rogers, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Ariel Capital Management; Eric Roiter, senior vice president and general counsel of Fidelity Management and Research Company; and Philip Timon, chief executive officer of Endowment Capital Group. The second discussion will be held at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 9, also in Room 104 of Lerner Hall. Panelists will discuss the future of dual class stock under Delaware law. Guests will be Richard Breeden, chairman of Richard C. Breeden & Co.; Ron Gilson, Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business at the Stanford Law School; Cornish Hitchcock, counsel to Amalgamated Bank; David Leitch, senior vice president and general counsel of Ford Motor Co.; Jay Lorsch, Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School; Leo Strine, vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery; and Richard Waters, journalist with the Financial Times. |
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