If your shoes are waterproof, jump in for another cruise through the unpredictable waters of
streaming
video in the legal community.
My researches for hidden caches of video on the Internet have taught me new respect for the
treasures placed on the web by law schools. Regular readers of this column have seen webcasts
from many law schools featured in these pages.
WHAT’S ON TONIGHT?
In this edition of our continuing adventure, another law school offers up a treasure chest of video
over the Internet, this time Yale — with a focus on corporate law.
Go to http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ccl and then click ‘Activities' at left, then ‘Lectures',
or
go directly to ...
“The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law”
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http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ccl/ccl_Lectures.htm
(Media player required: RealPlayer.)
YALE CORPORATE LAW
Yale's Center for the Study of Corporate Law hosts several lecture series which have generated
video on a variety of topics. The current offering includes about a dozen webcasts, most about
an
hour and a quarter, ranging from 2002 to 2006, listed below in chronological order:
- "Partial Contracts" by Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics,
Harvard University - April 24, 2006
- "Voluntary vs. Mandatory Corporate Governance Regulation: Theory and
Evidence" by Anita Anand, Associate Professor, Queen's University Faculty of Law and
Yale
Law School Visiting Lecturer in Law - March 9, 2006 (PDF only, no video)
- "Did the SEC Improve Corporate Disclosure? Evidence from the 1930s" by Paul
Mahoney, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law and Albert C. BeVier Research Professor,
University of Virginia School of Law - February 20, 2006 (I could not play this Quicktime
video.)
- "The Race for the Bottom in Corporate Governance" by Judge Frank H.
Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and formerly Lee and Brena Freeman
Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School - December 5, 2005
- "The Economic History of the Corporate Form in Ancient India" by Vic Khanna,
Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law, Michigan Law School -
November 17, 2005 (PDF and PowerPoint slides only, no video)
- "The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise" by Lucian Bebchuk, the William J.
Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance at Harvard
Law School - November 15, 2005
- "Who Appoints Them, What Do they Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from
Japan" by J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard
Law
School - March 30, 2004
- "Directors' Duties and Behavioral Economics" by Prof. Dr. Erich Schanze, LL.M.
of
the Institut für Rechtsvergleichung, Phillips-Universität Marburg, Germany - March 23, 2004
(PDF only, no video)
- "Searching for Market Manipulation in the Pre-SEC Era" by Paul G. Mahoney, '84,
the Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law and Albert C. BeVier Research Professor at the
University of Virginia School of Law - May 7, 2003
- "Engineering Venture Capital Markets" by Ronald J. Gilson, '71, the Charles J.
Meyers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and the Marc and Eva Stern
Professor of Law and Business at Columbia University School of Law - February 28, 2002.
Too many webcasts, not enough time.
If you see streaming audio or video you
think would be of interest to our readers, please
URL and description.
Has your firm produced a webcast? We want the details!
If you'd like a clickable list of the web addresses from this and past columns,
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