851-0735-04L Workshop and Lecture Series in Law and Finance
Semester | Autumn Semester 2017 |
Lecturers | G. Hertig |
Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
Language of instruction | English |
Courses
Number | Title | Hours | Lecturers | |||||||
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851-0735-04 S | Workshop and Lecture Series in Law and Finance **together with University of Zurich** More information at: Link | 2 hrs |
| G. Hertig |
Catalogue data
Abstract | The Workshop and Lectures Series in Law & Finance is a joint seminar of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and the University of St. Gallen. Each semester, several guest scholars from law, finance and related fields give a lecture and/or discuss their ongoing research. All speakers are internationally well-known experts from Europe, the U.S. and beyond. |
Objective | The Lecture and Workshop Series in Law & Finance aims at allowing participants to discuss current financial regulation and corporate governance issues with leading academics. |
Content | Participants discuss current Law & Finance issues with guest scholars from Europe and the U.S. In addition, participants write a comment on one of the discussed papers. |
Lecture notes | To be discussed papers are posted in advance on the course's web page |
Literature | - Benefit-Cost Analysis of Financial Regulation, Conference Issue, 43(2) Journal of Legal Studies 2014 - Andrei Shleifer, The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators (MIT Press 2012) - Viral Acharya et al., Regulating Wall Street (Wiley 2011) - Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines (Princeton University Press 2010) - Reinier Kraakman et al., The Anatomy of Corporate Law. A Comparative and Functional Approach (2d ed., Oxford University Press 2009) - Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor, Law and Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2008) - Jean Tirole, The Theory of Corporate Finance (Princeton University Press, 2006) |
Performance assessment
Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again) | |
Performance assessment as a semester course | |
ECTS credits | 2 credits |
Examiners | G. Hertig |
Type | graded semester performance |
Language of examination | English |
Repetition | Repetition only possible after re-enrolling for the course unit. |
Additional information on mode of examination | To get credits participants must cumulatively: 1) Attend 11 of the 14 lectures/workshops on the program, 2) Write a graded comment (2 pages minimum) on one of the papers discussed at the lecture/Workshop and 3) Participate actively during the course (e.g. via questions) |
Learning materials
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Only public learning materials are listed. |
Groups
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Restrictions
There are no additional restrictions for the registration. |
Offered in
Programme | Section | Type | |
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GESS Science in Perspective | Law | W |