SPEAKERS
Hester Peirce
Hester Peirce is the Director of Financial Markets Working Group and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She serves on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee. Peirce has previously worked on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and served as a staff attorney for the SEC. She received a BA in economics from Case Western Reserve University and her JD from Yale Law School.
​Merritt Fox
Merritt Fox is the Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law and the NASDAQ Professor for the Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia Law School. He is also the co-director of the Center for Law and Economic Studies and the Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets. His academic research has focused on corporate and securities law, capital markets regulation, and international securities regulation. Fox earned his BA from Yale University, his JD from Yale Law School, and then returned to Yale University to earn a Ph.D in economics.
Jonathan Macey​
Professor Jonathan Macey is the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law at Yale University. He is also a professor in the Yale School of Management. Macey has authored several books relating to corporate law, as well as more than 100 scholarly articles. He has been made an honorary Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange, and is also a member of the Economic Advisory Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Macey earned a BA from Harvard and his JD from Yale Law School.
Kristin Johnson​
Kristin Johnson is a professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. She teaches several courses, including Business Associations, Securities Regulation, the Law of Governance, and Compliance and Risk Management. She is a board member of the Journal of International Economic Law and the National Business Law Scholars Conference. Johnson earned her B.A. from Georgetown University, and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Kevin Haeberle​
Professor Kevin Haeberle is an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law (associate professor, William & Mary Law School–July 2017). His research focuses on securities law, and he teaches Business Organizations, Capital Markets Regulation, Securities Litigation, and Corporate Finance. He was a fellow with the Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School Program on the Law and Economics of Capital Markets. He also practiced in the securities area law for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman in New York. He earned a B.A. from Georgetown University, and earned his J.D. from Columbia University.
Gabriel Rauterberg​
Gabriel Rauterberg is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, where his research has focused on financial trading markets and securities regulation. Rauterberg has previously work as an associate at Cooley and then Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He received his BS from the University of Toronto and a JD from Yale Law School.