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Oct. 31, 2006

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

U-M Law, Business put on SOX: Conference on Sarbanes-Oxley Act

DATE: Nov. 9-10, 2006

EVENT: Academics, legal practitioners and business professionals will discuss the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, which was signed into law in 2002 in response to accounting and ethic scandals at corporations such as Enron, WorldCom and Adelphia.

“The Louis & Myrtle Moskowitz Conference on the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Doing Business” is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Contact: Krista Caner at canerk@umich.edu or (734) 764-0511.

Panel discussions include:

Thursday, Nov. 9
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Panel 1: Whistleblowers & Gatekeepers
Moderator: Marina Whitman, professor of business administration and public policy
Panelists: Jon Macey deputy dean and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law at the Yale Law School; Terry Dworkin, dean of the Office for Women’s Affairs, Indiana University-Bloomington; U-M law professor Vikramaditya S. Khanna and Timothy L. Dickinson, a U-M business law faculty fellow

6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Reception and dinner

Friday, Nov. 10
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Panel 2: SOX and the Markets
Moderator: E. Han Kim, U-M business professor
Panelists: Dana Muir, U-M professor of business law; Cindy Schipani, the Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration and professor of business law at U-M; Katherine Litvak, assistant professor at University of Texas School of Law; and Donald  Langevoort, the Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Panel 3: Internal Controls, Accounting Changes and Stock Options
Moderator: John Pottow, U-M professor of law
Panelists: Joseph Grundfest, co-director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford University; M.P. Narayanan, professor and chair of the finance department at U-M; Nejat Seyhun, the Jerome B. & Eilene M. York Professor of Business Administration and professor of finance at U-M; Reinier H. Kraakman, the Ezra Ripley Thayer Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. and Assaf Hamdani, assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Lunch.
Keynote speaker is Simon Lorne, vice chairman and chief legal officer of Millennium Partners, L.P., a multi-strategy New York-based hedge fund.

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Panel 4: Non-Profits and Ethics
Moderator: David Hasen, U-M assistant law professor
Panelists: Lumen Mulligan, U-M assistant professor of business law; and David Hess, Bank One Corp. assistant professor of business administration at U-M

3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Panel 5: View from Practice
Moderator:
Judy Marshall, managing director in the Assurance Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Detroit.

Khanna and Schipani, who both coordinated the SOX conference, will also teach a course regarding the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley. The class begins today (Oct. 31).

PLACE: U-M Law School, 625 South State St.

SPONSORS: Michigan Law Review, U-M Law School and U-M Ross School of Business

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