Monday, August 28, 2017
"Business Law: Connecting the Threads" - The First (Annual?) BLPB Conference
I am excited and proud to make the following announcement about a cool (!) upcoming program being held on Saturday, September 16 at UT Law in Knoxville:
The University of Tennessee College of Law will host a conference and CLE program that will focus on trends in business law. Discussions will take place throughout the day featuring panel discussions that center upon business law scholarship, teaching and law practice.
Topics will include business transaction diagramming; risks posed by social enterprise enabling statutes; fiduciary obligations and mutual fund voting; judicial dissolution in LLCs; Tennessee for-profit benefit corporation law and reporting; corporate personality theory in determining the shareholder wealth maximization norm; and professional responsibility issues for business lawyers in the current, evolving business environment.
The presenters for the program panels are . . . well . . . us! All of the BLPB editors and contributing editors, except Anne Tucker (we'll miss you, Anne!), are coming to Knoxville to share current work with each other and conference attendees. Each editor will anchor a panel that also will include a faculty and student discussant. The BLPB blogger papers and the discussants' written commentaries will all be published in a future issue of our business law journal, Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law. We also have secured one of our former visiting professors as a lunch-time speaker.
UT Law looks forward to hosting this event. For more information, you can look here. I expect some of us will post on the conference and the conference papers at a later date.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/business_law/2017/08/business-law-connecting-the-threads-the-first-annual-blpb-conference.html