Outreach Workshop on Global Financial
Crisis: Implications for Wisconsin
March 25, 2009
2:45-6:00pm
Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
University of Wisconsin Law School
Agenda
2:45-3:00
Registration
3:00-3:05
Welcome
Professor Heinz Klug
Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law &
Director, Global Legal Studies Center
UW Law School
3:05-3:25
Financial Crisis and Wisconsin
Professor Mark Copelovitch
Assistant Professor, Depart of Political Science
UW-Madison
3:25-3:50
Global Financial Crisis – Practical
Implications for Addressing Legal Issues
Attorney Sara Jensen
Deputy General Counsel, Promega Corporation
Madison
3:50-4:15
Q&A
4:15-4:35
The Securities and Exchange Commission
and the Financial Crisis
Professor Darian Ibrahim
Assistant Professor, UW Law School
4:35-4:45
Break
4:45-5:10
Implications for Developing Countries
Professor Menzie D. Chinn
Professor of Public Affairs & Economics Robert
M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
UW-Madison
5:10-5:30
Discussion
5:30-6:00
Reception
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Biographies of Speakers
Menzie D. Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
at the University of Wisconsin’s Robert M. La Follette School of
Public Affairs. His research examines macroeconomic
interactions between countries, including the behavior of
exchange rates, the measurement of currency misalignment, and
the origin of current account imbalances. He has published in the
Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and
Finance, Oxford, Economic Papers, and Journal of Money, Credit and
Banking. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Money,
Credit and Banking, and formerly an associate editor of the Journal
of International Economics.
In 2000-2001, Professor Chinn served as Senior Staff Economist
for International Finance on the President’s Council of
Economic Advisers. He is currently a Research Associate in the
International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the
National Bureau of Economic Research, and has been a visiting
scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional
Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Board, and the European
Central Bank.
Prior to his appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 2003, Professor Chinn taught at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. He received his doctorate in Economics from the
University of California, Berkeley, and his AB from Harvard
University.
Mark Copelovitch is an Assistant Professor of Political Science
and Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professor Copelovitch studies and teaches international political
economy, with a focus on global financial governance, exchange
rates and monetary institutions, the effects of global capital flows
on national economic policies, and theories of international
cooperation. Professor Copelovitch is a graduate of Yale
University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D.
in 2005. Prior to his appointment at Wisconsin, he was a
postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Globalization and
Governance at Princeton University.
Professor Copelovitch has published several articles including
“Financial Regulation, Monetary Policy, and Inflation in the
Industrialized World” (with David Andrew Singer). 2008, Journal
of Politics 70(3): 663-680, for which he received the Kellogg/Notre
Dame Award for the Best Paper in Comparative Politics from
the Midwest Political Science Association in 2007. His book
Banks, Bonds, and Bailouts: The International Monetary Fund in the
Global Economy is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Sara Jensen serves as Deputy General Counsel for Promega
Corporation, an international biotechnology company with over
900 employees worldwide. Ms. Jensen, who has been with
Promega for ten years, previously worked for Michael, Best and
Friedrich where she specialized in tax and corporate matters. In
her current practice, Ms. Jensen manages all contractual matters
for Promega Corporation, including acquisitions, financing
transactions, supply and distribution contracts, technology
licensing and real property transactions. She serves as Assistant
Secretary of the Corporation, supporting the Board of Directors,
the Audit Committee and Promega’s sixteen national and
international affiliates. Ms. Jensen received her undergraduate
degree with honors from the University of Utah and her law
degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin. Sara
firmly believes, however, that her greatest education comes from
raising her two sons, ages four and ten.
Darian Ibrahim joined the University of Wisconsin Law School
faculty in fall 2008 from the University of Arizona James E.
Rogers College of Law. While at Arizona, Professor Ibrahim was
voted the Teacher of Year (2006-2007) by the student body and
co-created and co-directed the University’s Business/Law
Exchange. Professor Ibrahim’s scholarly interests include
corporate and securities law and the intersection of law and
entrepreneurship. His current research analyzes and compares
the various financing options that are available to high-tech startups, including angel finance and venture capital. He has current
articles on angel investing, Delaware corporate law, and a macro
look at the field of law and entrepreneurship (with Gordon
Smith) in the Vanderbilt, Iowa, and Arizona law reviews. At UW
Professor Ibrahim teaches classes in business organizations
(public corporations), securities regulation, and a seminar in law
and entrepreneurship.
Professor Ibrahim is a 1999 graduate of Cornell Law School
(magna cum laude), where he was Articles Editor of the Cornell Law
Review, Order of the Coif, and a recipient of the Fredric H.
Weisberg Prize for Constitutional Law. He earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Clemson
University in 1996 (magna cum laude) and was the recipient of a
number of honors, including an internship with Dow Chemical
Company.
During law school, Professor Ibrahim was a summer associate in
the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Cravath, Swaine &
Moore in New York. After graduation, he was an associate in the
Corporate and Securities Group at Troutman Sanders in Atlanta,
where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and private
placements of securities for high-tech start-ups. Following his law
firm experience, Professor Ibrahim clerked for Chief Justice
Norman S. Fletcher of the Georgia Supreme Court.
His recent articles include: The (Not So) Puzzling Behavior of Angel
Investors, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1405 (2008), Individual or Collective
Liability for Corporate Directors?, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 929 (2008), and
Entrepreneurs on Horseback: Reflections on the Organization of Law (with
D. Gordon Smith), 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 71 (2008).