The Martin Act: A Tool for Reform or an Abuse of Power?

NYU Law School Center on the Administration of Criminal Law will be hosting a symposium titled, The Martin Act: A Tool for Reform or an Abuse of Power? On Monday, February 26, 2018 from 9:30 -2:00 p.m.  More information and to register, see here. The program is as follows:

Panel One: The Martin Act and the Need for State Action

• Harlan Levy, partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and former Chief Deputy Attorney General, New York Attorney General’s Office
• Katherine Milgram, Chief, Investor Protection Bureau, New York Attorney General’s Office
• Chad Johnson, partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and former Chief of the Investor Protection Bureau, New York Attorney General’s Office
• Eric DiNallo, Executive Vice President/General Counsel at The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, former Chief of the Investor Protection Bureau, New York Attorney General’s Office

Panel Two: Practitioners Speak: How to Handle a Martin Act Investigation

• Charles Stillman, partner at Ballard Spahr LLP
• David Zornow, partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
• Jeffrey Scott, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• David Anders, partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz LLP
• Cynthia Hanawalt, Enforcement Section Chief, Investor Protection Bureau, New York Attorney General’s Office 

Panel Three: The Martin Act: An Abuse of Power?

• James Park, Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law
• Rachel Barkow, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, Faculty Director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU Law School
• Ellen Podgor, Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Profesor, Stetson University College of Law
• James Copland,Senior Fellow, Director of Legal Policy at The Manhattan Institute
• John Gardiner, partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP

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