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The elder statesman of corporate governance, who practiced law for more than 70 years at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, dies at age 97.

The event, sponsored by the Center on Corporate Governance and the Millstein Center, featured panels on new securities regulation, antitrust enforcement and litigation, cryptocurrency assets, and potential conflicts in controlling shareholder transactions. 

The annual event, sponsored by the Center on Corporate Governance and the Millstein Center, returned following a two-year hiatus and featured a talk with Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery. 

The high-risk, high-reward venture capital industry is also highly white and highly male. But could V.C. deals be structured differently to mitigate implicit bias and give an equal shot to women and people of color?

Climate change and racial justice are issues on the boardroom table as shareholder activists try to force corporations to act on environmental and diversity matters. Anne E. Robinson ’94, Vanguard general counsel, talks about the priorities of institutional investors when ESG questions are put to a vote. 

With a stock trading app on their phones and a lot of time on their hands, individual investors flooded into the market during the pandemic—with wild results. Co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Millstein Center Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 talk to Professor Joshua Mitts about pandemic meme trading and what it means for market regulation.

Do Americans want to go back to work? And on what terms? Co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Millstein Center Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 are joined by Professor Kate Andrias to talk about labor shortages, strikes, and the future of work.

Co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Millstein Center Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 are joined by NPR’s Stacey Vanek Smith JRN ’03 to introduce the second season of Columbia Law School’s podcast Beyond Unprecedented: The Post-Pandemic Economy.

In episode five of Columbia Law’s new limited podcast series, hosted by Professor Eric Talley, corporate governance experts Ira M. Millstein and Leo E. Strine Jr. discuss how companies must begin valuing their workers and their environmental impact as highly as their shareholders in order to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Continued shareholder activism will keep proxy advisers under scrutiny, Columbia Law scholars say.