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Symposium: Business Law In Transition

University of Florida Levin College of Law presents
Business Law in Transition 

 

About the Business Law in Transition Symposium

This conference highlights timely issues in business law scholarship with thought leaders from across US law schools. It is free via Zoom. Please email sokold@law.ufl.edu to receive the Zoom link.

Conference Schedule (All times are Eastern Standard Time)

Friday, November 20

  • 10:15am-10:20am | Introductory Remarks
  • 10:20am to 11:50am | Panel I
    • Sarah Haan – Professor of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law, Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital
    • Peter Molk – Associate Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Delaware’s Dominance and the Future of Organizational Law
    • Gabriel Rauterberg –  Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School,  Intellectual Property and the Evolving Structure of Trading Markets
  • 11:50am – 12:00pm | Break
  • 12:00pm-1:30pm| Panel II
    • Sung Eun (Sumner) Kim – Assistant Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, A Multi-Criteria Assessment of Corporate Residual Claimants
    • Dorothy S. Lund – Assistant Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law, Public Primacy in Corporate Law
    • D. Daniel Sokol Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Collusion, Debt, and Control
  • 1:30pm – 1:40pm | Break
  • 1:40pm – 3:10pm | Panel III
    • Yaron Nili – Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School, The Giant Shadow of Corporate Gadflies
    • Mark Roe – David Berg Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Corporate Purpose and Competition 
    • Andrew Winden – Assistant Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Delaware’s Climate Failure
  • 3:10 – 3:15pm | Break
  • 3:15 – 4:45pm | Panel IV
    • Margaret Mendenhall Blair – Professor of Law, Emerita and Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Emerita, Vanderbilt Law School, How Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward Clarified Corporate Law
    • Geeyoung Min – Assistant Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law, Governance by Dividends
    • Robert J. Rhee – John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Is Delaware Law Relevant?

Saturday, November 21

  • 10:00am – 12:00pm | Panel V
    • Elisabeth de Fontenay – Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law, The Dry Powder Problem
    • Cathy Hwang – Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Collaborative Intent
    • Joshua Mitts – Associate Professor of Law and Milton Handler Fellow, Columbia Law School, Passive Exit
    • Elizabeth Pollman – Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Startup Failure

Published: November 6th, 2020

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The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

HISTORY

Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

 

Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.