AU Business Law Review to Host Women in Business Law Leadership Conference
Former SEC Commissioner Kara Stein to Give Keynote Address
April 30, 2019
On Tuesday, May 7, the American University Business Law Review will present its inaugural Women in Business Law Leadership Conference.
The conference will take place from 3-5 p.m. in Constitutional Hall on American University’s East Campus, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. A reception will follow from 5-6 p.m.
In celebration of the publication’s back-to-back all-women editorial boards, AUBLR’s Volumes 8 and 9 are hosting this unique, all-women conference in conjunction with a call for papers, which will be published in an all-women authored issue.
Keynote speaker Kara Stein, former SEC Commissioner, will also lead the event’s first discussion with American University Washington College of Law Associate Professor Hilary Allen and The George Washington University School of Law Professor Lisa Fairfax.
Senior Vice President of Policy and Research at the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, Oriana Senatore, will moderate “Invisible Silicon Valley: Setting the Pace in a Time of Legal Disruption – Lawyers as Engineers.” The panel will feature Tonya Esposito, partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and Maryanne Lavan, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Lockheed Martin.
The conference’s third panel, “Business Law Scholarship: The Year Ahead – What Practitioners Need, How Scholars Can Help,” will be moderated by Caroline Bruckner, executive in residence of the Department of Accounting and Taxation at American University’s Kogod School of Business, and feature Mary Blatch, associate general counsel & senior director of advocacy at the Association of Corporate Counsel, and Jacqueline Lainez-Flanagan, visiting professor at AUWCL’s Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic.
Registration is free, but required. Click here to register. Authors may send questions and submissions for AUBLR’s all-women authored issue to Amy D’Avella at blr-sae@wcl.american.edu.