This symposium will examine some new forms of corruption in public affairs. Panelists will address topics including the weaknesses in U.S. federal, state, and local laws that fail to reign in corruption domestically and the institutional weaknesses that fail to curb it. We will pose a wide-ranging set of questions to our participants, who will come from across the country and from both academic and law enforcement backgrounds. Are forms of corruption surfacing that our laws and institutions have not been designed to address? Have institutions been weakened that we have traditionally relied upon? What lessons can we learn from the successes and failures of other countries? Register here.
AGENDA: (times are subject to change)
8:30 AM – Registration
9:00 AM – Opening Remarks & Dean’s Welcome
9:10 AM – Morning Keynote
- Susan Rose-Ackerman – Henry R. Luce Professor Emerita of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science, and Professorial Lecturer in Law (fall term), Yale Law School
9:50 AM – Break
10:05 AM – Panel 1: Federal Public Corruption
- Speakers:
- Sonia Mittal – Clinical Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School and former federal prosecutor
- Brian Richardson – Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
- Reilly Steel – Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- Aaron Zelinsky – Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
- Moderator: Anne Dailey – Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Intellectual Life and Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
11:25 AM – Break
11:40 AM – Panel 2: State & Local Issues
- Speakers:
- Len Boyle – Former Interim United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; former state and federal prosecutor
- Michael Kang – Class of 1940 Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Leo Wise – Visiting Senior Fellow, American Economic Liberties Project; Former Chief, Fraud and Public Corruption Section, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland; former Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Office of Congressional Ethics
- Moderator: Sachin Pandya – Roger Sherman Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
12:45 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM – Lunch Keynote
- Sen. Chris MurphyLAW ’02 – United States Senator (D), Connecticut – “The View from Washington”
1:50 PM – Break
2:00 PM – Panel 3: Global & Comparative Perspectives
- Speakers:
- Kevin Davis – Beller Family Professor of Business Law, New York University School of Law
- Miguel de Figueiredo – Professor of Law and Terry J. Tondro Research Scholar, University of Connecticut School of Law
- Moderator: Peter Lindseth – Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
2:50 PM – Closing Remarks
If you require a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the Law School at (860) 570-5079 or via email at law.studentservices@uconn.edu, at least two weeks in advance.
This event is free for students, faculty, staff and the general public.
There is an $85 registration fee for attorneys seeking CT CLE credit. This symposium is eligible for 4.5 CT CLE credits.