Financial services regulatory reform will continue to be active these next three plus years, with the Biden administration focused on activity at the intersection of financial regulation and social policy. However, the pace and tenor of change under the administration will be heavily influenced by the leadership of and senior personnel at the federal prudential and market regulators.

Katharina Pistor discusses her new book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. The book is a major intervention about the nature of modern capitalism. Pistor argues for the central role of the law in shaping the distribution of wealth and makes a compelling case that it is law that creates capital itself. Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School's Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her work spans comparative law and corporate governance, law and finance, and law and development.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner, Rostin Behnam, and former Deputy Treasury Secretary, Sarah Bloom Raskin, discuss the risks that climate change poses to the stability of our financial system. Since joining the CFTC, Commissioner Behnam has advocated that the CFTC utilize its authority and expertise to ensure the derivatives markets innovate responsibly within an appropriate oversight framework. He recently led the CFTC's effort to establish the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee.

During the 2008 financial crisis, Citigroup was presented as the victim of events beyond its control - larger financial panic, unforeseen economic disruptions, and a perfect storm of credit expansion, private greed, and public incompetence. To save the economy and keep the bank afloat, the government provided huge infusions of cash through multiple bailouts that angered the American public. But, as financial experts James Freeman and Vern McKinley reveal, the 2008 crisis was just one of many disasters Citi has experienced since its founding more than 200 years ago.

The era of "too big to fail" banks is far from over. Eight years after the financial crisis, banks are bigger and more complex. One critical post-crisis effort to reduce banks' risks was the adoption of the Volcker Rule, which prohibits banks from proprietary trading and owning significant interests in funds. But many policymakers and members of the public want more to be done, with some even calling for banks to be broken up.

José Ugaz, chair of Transparency International's Board of Directors, addresses the role that international financial organizations play in the international corruption landscape and agenda.

Sponsored jointly by the Duke International Anti-Corruption Law Society and by the "Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa" ("National Business Attorneys Association") of Mexico.

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy's 2015 symposium, “Fraud on the Market after Halliburton II." Leading academics and practitioners in the field of securities law discuss the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision to maintain the fraud on the market presumption.

Opening Remarks and Introduction
Opening Remarks: Joseph Blocher, Duke University School of Law
Introduction: Ann Lipton, Duke University School of Law

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy's 2015 symposium, “Fraud on the Market after Halliburton II.” Leading academics and practitioners in the field of securities law discuss the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision to maintain the fraud on the market presumption.

Alternatives to Class Action Litigation
Authors - Adam C. Pritchard, University of Michigan Law School
Amanda M. Rose, Vanderbilt University Law School
Moderator - Alan R. Palmiter, Wake Forest University School of Law

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy's 2015 symposium, “Fraud on the Market after Halliburton II.” Leading academics and practitioners in the field of securities law discuss the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision to maintain the fraud on the market presumption.

Deficiencies of the Fraud on the Market Analysis
Authors - Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania Law School
James Park, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
Moderator - James Cox, Duke University School of Law