John Coffee
JOHN COFFEE LECTURE
Davidson College invites the public to a lecture on Monday evening, April 19, about the nation’s financial crisis.
John C. Coffee, Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, will speak on “The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Regulatory Reaction: What Went Wrong, and Why Is So Little Being Done in Response?” beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Smith 900 Room of the Alvarez College Union. There is no admission charge, and light refreshments will be served.
Coffee will discuss laws and ethical principles bearing on the finance industry, reasons for the 2008 collapse, and whether subsequent regulatory reforms have been adequate.
The author of several books on finance ethics, law and economics, Coffee has also served as an adviser to the National Association of Securities Dealers, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, and various congressional committees. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The talk is sponsored by Davidson’s Vann Center for Ethics. For more information, call 704-894-2095.
ETHICS AND LAWYERS
Davidson College and the Mecklenburg County Bar invite interested professionals and members of the general public to a program on “Ethics in the Legal Profession” on Tuesday evening, April 27.
Check-in will begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Smith 900 Room of the Alvarez College Union on the Davidson campus, and the program will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Attorneys and paralegals may earn Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit of 1.5 hours in ethics. A registration fee applies for those seeking credit: $110 for attorneys and $55 for paralegals. There is no charge to members of the general public.
Speakers will be N.C. Superior Court Judge Calvin E. Murphy, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney, and E. Fitzgerald Parnell, a partner in the firm Poyner Spruill LLP. The three panelists will address ethical issues: challenges to professional integrity where the right thing to do might be clear, but there are significant incentives or pressures not to do it; genuine ethical dilemmas, such as occasions when a defense attorney believes a client is guilty of a crime, but the client insists on pleading innocent; and questions about the ethical justification or net effects of particular laws such as capital punishment, mandatory prison terms for drug possession, and assisted suicide.
The program is sponsored by Davidson’s Vann Center for Ethics and the Mecklenburg County Bar, 26th Judicial District.
Registration is available online. For more information call 704-375-8624.
