2010 Minnesota Law Review Symposium

Government Ethics and Bailouts: The Past, Present, and Future

Friday, October 15, 2010
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
University of Minnesota Law School
Room 25  
 

Our first panel, The Past: Did Capitalism Fail?, will focus on the debate over whether capitalist market economies or unwise governmental legal and economic policies were the ultimate source of the current financial crisis.  This panel will feature Robert Hoyt (General Counsel for the Treasury Department under Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson).

Our second panel, The Present: The Ethics of Government Bailouts of Private Industry in a Free Market System, will assess the ethics underlying the government bailout response to the financial crisis and appraise the transparency of the government’s actions. This panel will feature Richard Painter (University of Minnesota Law School), Paul Atkins (Former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), and Kathleen Clark (Washington University in St. Louis School of Law).

Finally, our third panel, The Future: The Long Term Ramifications of Government Bailouts, will address the legal and policy implications of the response to the financial crisis on issues such as executive compensation, risk-taking, and disclosure. This panel will feature Steven Davidoff (University of Connecticut School of Law).