Business Law
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Navigating the Maelstrom
Conversations on financial meltdown and regulatory reform.
News Highlights
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Sara Sternberg Greene joins faculty – an interdisciplinary scholar of bankruptcy, commercial, and tax lawSara Sternberg Greene, an interdisciplinary scholar whose interests span bankruptcy, commercial law, contracts, tax, poverty, and health law, will join the governing faculty on July 1. Broadly concerned in her scholarship with the relationship between law and inequality, Sternberg Green uses qualitative empirical research to examine and, ultimately, optimize, the impact of financial laws on low- and moderate-income families.
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Elisabeth de Fontenay, emerging scholar of corporate law, finance, and financial institutions, joins governing facultyElisabeth de Fontenay will join the Duke Law governing faculty on July 1 as an associate professor of law. She comes to Duke from Harvard Law School where she has served as a Climenko Fellow and lecturer in law since 2011.
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Kaufman discusses the lack of criminal cases against Wall Street leaders involved in bad mortgage salesVisiting Professor of the Practice Ted Kaufman represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate in 2009 and 2010, then chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program until its completion in April 2011. In this Frontline documentary he addresses the lack of criminal prosecutions of executives who ran Wall Street firms while the subprime mortgage scandal morphed into a global financial crisis.
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Brown comments on Bank of America's $10.3 billion settlement with Fannie MaeProf. Bill Brown says "we're 90% of the way to finishing the line" drawn under the whole subprime mortgage-backed securities saga with Fannie Mae.
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Gulati comments on Greek debt buyback“I just don’t understand why they did this” says Prof. Mitu Gulati, in response to the European Commission's decision to buy back bonds at a discount.
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Duke Law approves new JD/LLMLE program Duke Law will launch a new dual-degree program in law and entrepreneurship beginning in the 2013-14 academic year, Dean David F. Levi has announced.
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Baxter discusses financial regulation in Europe, AsiaProfessor Lawrence Baxter recently spoke at three-high level conferences on international financial regulation and reform in London and Seoul, respectively.
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Featured FacultyVisiting Professor of the Practice, Director of the Law and Entrepreneurship ProgramKip Frey is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, educator, and community leader. He is currently president and CEO of EvoApp, Inc., a business intelligence start-up based in Durham, NC.
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