Monday,June6,2016,2–7p.m.
HumboldtUniversityBerlin,Senatssaal
Yale–Humboldt
ConsumerLawLectures
Prof.RichardBrooks
CharlesKellerBeekmanProfessorofLaw,ColumbiaLawSchool
“Law,Exit,VoiceandLoyalty”
Prof.HenryB.Hansmann
OscarM.RuebhausenProfessorofLaw,YaleLawSchool
“ShouldtheLawRespectCorporateSubsidiaries?”
Prof.RobertaRomano
SterlingProfessorofLawandDirectoroftheYaleLawSchoolCenter
fortheStudyofCorporateLaw,YaleLawSchool
“ARetrospectiveoftheCFPB’sActivities”
Inthe“Yale–HumboldtConsumerLawLectures”,ProfessorsfromYaleLawSchool
andotherleadingUS-LawSchoolswillpresenttheirrecentresearchinthefieldof
consumerlawatHumboldtLawSchooleveryspring.
ThelectureseriesisorganizedbyProf.SusanneAugenhofer,LL.M.(Yale).
Prof.Dr.SusanneAugenhofer,LL.M.(Yale)
LehrstuhlfürBürgerlichesRechtundEuropäischesPrivatrecht,Rechtsvergleichungund
MarktregulierungdurchVerbraucher-undWettbewerbsrecht
Mail:[email protected]
Pleaseregisteratwww.eventbrite.com,eventname:“YHCLL”untilJune3,2016.
Program
2.00p.m.
Welcome by Professor SusanneAugenhoferand the President of the Humboldt
University,ProfessorSabineKunst
2.15p.m.
“Law,Exit,VoiceandLoyalty”,
ProfessorRichardBrooks,ColumbiaLawSchool
3.15p.m.
Coffeebreak
3.45p.m.
“ShouldtheLawRespectCorporateSubsidiaries?”,
ProfessorHenryB.Hansmann,YaleLawSchool
4.45p.m.
Break
5.00p.m.
“ARetrospectiveoftheCFPB’sActivities”,
ProfessorRobertaRomano,YaleLawSchool
6.00p.m.
PanelDiscussion
Theeventwillbefollowedbyareception.
Prof.Dr.SusanneAugenhofer,LL.M.(Yale)
LehrstuhlfürBürgerlichesRechtundEuropäischesPrivatrecht,Rechtsvergleichungund
MarktregulierungdurchVerbraucher-undWettbewerbsrecht
Mail:[email protected]
Pleaseregisteratwww.eventbrite.com,eventname:“YHCLL”untilJune3,2016.
Prof.RichardBrooks
ColumbiaLawSchool
Richard Brooks is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia
Law School and also teaches at Yale Law School, where he was the Leighton
HomerSurbeckProfessorofLawbeforejoiningColumbiaLawSchoolin2013.
He previously taught law at both Cornell University and Northwestern
University.
Professor Brooks has published numerous books and articles that analyze
behaviorthroughthelensofeconomics,custom,andlaw.
Professor Brooks’ work also includes articles about contract law and theory, experimental
economics,theeconomicsofenvironmentallaw,fairness,andperceptionsofthelegalsystem.
ProfessorBrookshasaB.A.fromCornell,anM.A.andaPh.D.fromtheUniversityofCalifornia
atBerkeley,andaJ.D.fromtheUniversityofChicago.Hehasservedinteraliaonanadvisory
committee to the Social, Behavioral and Economics Sciences Division of the National Science
FoundationandasaresearchspecialistintheAntitrustDivisionoftheDepartmentofJustice.
Prof.Dr.SusanneAugenhofer,LL.M.(Yale)
LehrstuhlfürBürgerlichesRechtundEuropäischesPrivatrecht,Rechtsvergleichungund
MarktregulierungdurchVerbraucher-undWettbewerbsrecht
Mail:[email protected]
Pleaseregisteratwww.eventbrite.com,eventname:“YHCLL”untilJune3,2016.
Prof.HenryB.Hansmann
YaleLawSchool
Henry Hansmann is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law at Yale Law
School.
He received both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. His
scholarship has focused principally on the law and economics of
organizational ownership and design.He has written extensively about
nonprofit organizations, the relationship between contract law and
organizational law, the historical evolution of organizational forms, and the
structureofpropertyrights.Inadditiontohismanyarticles,heistheauthorofTheOwnership
of Enterpriseand, with others,The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Functional and Comparative
Analysis. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past recipient of a John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and past president of the American Law and Economics
Association.
Prof.Dr.SusanneAugenhofer,LL.M.(Yale)
LehrstuhlfürBürgerlichesRechtundEuropäischesPrivatrecht,Rechtsvergleichungund
MarktregulierungdurchVerbraucher-undWettbewerbsrecht
Mail:[email protected]
Pleaseregisteratwww.eventbrite.com,eventname:“YHCLL”untilJune3,2016.
Prof.RobertaRomano
YaleLawSchool
RobertaRomanoisSterlingProfessorofLawatYaleLawSchoolandDirector
oftheYaleLawSchoolCenterfortheStudyofCorporateLaw.
Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters, the
political economy of takeover regulation, shareholder litigation, institutional
investor activism in corporate governance, and the regulation of securities
marketsandfinancialinstrumentsandinstitutions.
ProfessorRomanoisafellowoftheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciencesandtheEuropean
Corporate Governance Institute, a research associate of the National Bureau for Economic
Research,apastPresidentoftheAmericanLawandEconomicsAssociationandtheSocietyfor
EmpiricalLegalStudies,andapastco-editoroftheJournalofLaw,EconomicsandOrganization.
She is the author ofThe Genius of American Corporate LawandThe Advantage of Competitive
FederalismforSecuritiesRegulation,andserieseditoroftheFoundationsofLawreaderseries
andeditorofthevolumeintheseries,FoundationsofCorporateLaw(2ded.).
ShereceivedaJ.D.fromYaleLawSchool,aM.A.fromtheUniversityofChicagoandaB.A.from
theUniversityofRochester.
Prof.Dr.SusanneAugenhofer,LL.M.(Yale)
LehrstuhlfürBürgerlichesRechtundEuropäischesPrivatrecht,Rechtsvergleichungund
MarktregulierungdurchVerbraucher-undWettbewerbsrecht
Mail:[email protected]
Pleaseregisteratwww.eventbrite.com,eventname:“YHCLL”untilJune3,2016.

Yale – Humboldt Consumer Law Lectures