FREE In-Person CLE Course – The New Separation Between Ownership & Control: Institutional Investors & ESG

Event Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Time: 12:00 – 1 pm ET

Location: NCLA Headquarters, 1225 19th St NW, Suite 450 Washington, DC, 22036

Admission: Free

Credits: 1 hour of general CLE credit

Event Description:

The New Separation Between Ownership & Control: Institutional Investors & ESG will feature a conversation between Professors Julia D. Mahoney and Paul G. Mahoney, both of the University of Virginia School of Law.

Our experts will discuss what scholars and policymakers have long debated: namely, whether corporations should serve social purposes at the expense of shareholder wealth. The SEC has recently faced calls to mandate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures. Should the SEC (and, thus, practitioners advising their investor clients) proceed with caution? Is the adoption of ESG disclosure mandates properly aligned with protecting investors and maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets. Accordingly, what policies should we hope to see at the SEC and what advice might we give our clients?

Your Expert Speakers:

Julia D. Mahoney (John S. Battle Professor of Law and Joseph C. Carter, Jr., Research Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law)
Julia D. Mahoney teaches courses in property, government finance, constitutional law and nonprofit organizations. A graduate of Yale Law School, she joined the University of Virginia faculty as an associate professor in 1999 and is now John S. Battle Professor of Law. She has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School and the University of Chicago Law School, and before entering the legal academy, practiced law at the New York firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Her scholarly articles include works on land preservation, eminent domain, health care reform and property rights in human biological materials.

Paul G. Mahoney (David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law)
Paul G. Mahoney is a David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor and served as dean of the Law School from 2008-16. Mahoney’s teaching and research areas are securities regulation, law and economic development, corporate finance, financial derivatives and contracts. He has published widely in law reviews and peer-reviewed finance and law and economics journals. His book, “Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails,” was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015.

Mahoney joined the Law School faculty in 1990 after practicing law with the New York firm of Sullivan & Cromwell and clerking for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as academic associate dean at the Law School from 1999 to 2004 and has held the Albert C. BeVier Research Chair and the Brokaw Chair in Corporate Law. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Southern California Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He has also worked on legal reform projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Nepal.

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