Corporate Citizens in Corporate Cultures (2002)

Corporate Citizens in Corporate Cultures: Restructuring and Reform

Sept. 13-14, 2002 at Osgoode Hall Law School Toronto, Canada

Sponsored by the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Cornell Law School,

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University,

and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 -4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Panel #1: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO CORPORATE LAW & CORPORATE CULTURE

Katherine Stone, Cornell Law School,

"Risk: Rhetoric and Reality in Corporate Life."

Sally Wheeler, School of Law, Birkbeck College,

"Corporate Social Intervention."

Daniel Greenwood, Utah College of Law,

"Enronitis."

Kellye Testy, Seattle University School of Law,

"Capitalism and Freedom - For Whom?: Feminist Legal Theory and Corporate Law."

6:30 pm- Reception hosted by Mary Jane Mossman, Director of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies

7:00 pm - Dinner, Osgoode Hall Law School

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 - 9:00am- 11:15am

Panel #2: CORPORATE AND GOVERNANCE

Lawrence Mitchell. George Washington University Law School,

"All the Corporate World's A Stage: The Constraints of Role Integrity."

Cheryl Wade, St. John's University School of Law,

"Corporate Governance Failures and the Managerial Duty of Care."

Cynthia Williams, University of Illinois College of Law,

"Corporate Social Accountability as a Partial Solution to the Corporate Social Responsibility Dilemma."

Janis Sarra, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law,

"Rose-Coloured Glasses, Opaque Financial Reporting and Investor Blues; Enron as Con and the Vulnerability of Canadian Corporate Law."

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Panel #3: INTERNATIONAL ISSUES OF CORPORATIONS AND CAPITALISM.

Claire Dickerson, Rutgers Law School-Newark,

"Ozymandius Was A Community Project: Now Who Redefines Managerial/Corporate Social Responsibility?"

Laura Spitz, University of New Mexico School of Law,

"The Gift of Enron: An Optimistic Look at Harmonization, Substantive Equality and the Promise of A North American Charter of Rights and Freedoms."

Stephen Diamond, School of Law, Santa Clara University,

"The 'PetroChina Syndrome': Regulating Capital Markets in the Anti-Globalization Era."

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm - Lunch and Discussion of Papers, Osgoode Hall Law School

2:45 pm -4:45 pm

Panel #4: LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT IN; CORPORATIONS

Mary Condon, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University,

"Risky Business: Employee Pensions and Management Stock Options in an Era of Corporate Scandal."

Ron Davis, University of Toronto,

"Enron and Two Aspects of the Pension Puzzle."

Susan Stabile. St. John's University School of Law,

"Enron, Global Crossing and Beyond: Implications for Workers."

5:45 pm: Dinner on Toronto Island at the home of Janis Sarra (transportation will be provided)