Center for Israeli Legal Studies | Columbia Law School
Program
Tuesday, May 27, 2008: “Freedom of Speech”
Greetings
Gabriela Shalev, Rector, Ono Academic College
Freedom of Speech: Theoretical and Institutional Perspectives
Chair: Ariel Bendor, Bar Ilan Univeristy
Frederick Schauer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univeristy
Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv University
Ruti Teitel, New York Law School
Alon Harel, Hebrew University
Isaac Herzog, Ono Academic College
Liability for Speech?
Chair: Joshua Segev, Netanya Academic College
Justice Eliezer Rivlin, Israel Supreme Court
Kent Greenawalt, Columbia University
Mordechai Kremnitzer, Hebrew University
George Fletcher, Columbia Univeristy, Hebrew University
Amichai Cohen, Ono Academic College
The Categorical vs. the Balancing Approach
Chair: Iddo Porat, Academic Center of Law and Business
Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley
Barak Medina, Hebrew University
Daphne Barak-Erez, Tel Aviv University
Yaacov Ben-Shemesh, Ono Academic College
Wednesday, May 28, 2008: “Corporate Governance”
Keynote Speaker
Yarom Ariav, Director General, Ministry of Finance, Israel
Governance and Enforcement
Chair: Lea Paserman-Josefov, Ono Academic College
John C. Coffee, Jr., Columbia Law School
Justice Jack Jacobs, Delaware Supreme Court
Meyer Eisenberg, Columbia Law School and Willamette University College of Law
Harvey Goldschmid, Columbia Law School
Sharon Hannes, Tel Aviv University
William T. Allen, New York University School of Law
Corporate Governance and Sovereign Wealth Funds
Chair: Alon Klement, Interdisciplinary Center
Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia Law School
Omri Yadlin, Tel Aviv University
Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School
Amir Licht, Interdisciplinary Center
Shmuel Hauser, Ono Academic College
Ehud Kamar, USC Gould School of Law
Business Groups and Corporate Governance Standards
Chair: Zohar Goshen, Chairman, Israel Securities Authority and Ono Academic College
Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School
Theodore N. Mirvis, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Robert M. Daines, Stanford Law School
Assaf Hamdani, Hebrew University
Randall K. Morck, University of Alberta School of Business
Eugene Kandel, Hebrew University
Recent Developments
Chair: Irit Haviv-Segal, Tel-Aviv University
Harvey Goldschmid, Columbia Law School
Assaf Hamdani, Hebrew University
Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School
David Hahn, Bar Ilan University
Theodore N. Mirvis, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
William T. Allen, New York University School of Law
Keynote Speaker
Yarom Ariav, Director General, Ministry of Finance, Israel
Governance and Enforcement
Chair: Lea Paserman-Josefov, Ono Academic College
John C. Coffee, Jr., Columbia Law School
Justice Jack Jacobs, Delaware Supreme Court
Meyer Eisenberg, Columbia Law School and Willamette University College of Law
Harvey Goldschmid, Columbia Law School
Sharon Hannes, Tel Aviv University
William T. Allen, New York University School of Law
Corporate Governance and Sovereign Wealth Funds
Chair: Alon Klement, Interdisciplinary Center
Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia Law School
Omri Yadlin, Tel Aviv University