McGill University Faculty of Law
November 6-7, 2015
On 6-7 November 2015, the Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law and the Faculty of Law will host an international conference entitled Contract, Status, and Fiduciary Law. The conference is co-organized by Prof. Paul B. Miller (McGill University) and Prof. Andrew S. Gold (DePaul University). Conference papers will be published in a volume edited by Professors Miller and Gold that is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2016.
PROGRAM
Friday, November 6, 2015
8:30 Coffee & Pastries
9:00 Welcome
Session 1
9:05 Paul B. Miller (McGill University), The Idea of Status in Fiduciary Law
9:50 Matthew Harding (University of Melbourne), Fiduciary Undertakings
10:35 Break
Session 2
11:00 Hanoch Dagan & Elizabeth S. Scott (Tel Aviv University and Columbia University), Reinterpreting the Status-Contract Divide: The Case of Fiduciaries
11:45 Margaret Jane Radin (University of Michigan), When Contract Reduces to Status: Fiduciary Obligation and the Rule of Law
12:30 Lunch
Session 3
1:30 Stephen A. Smith (McGill University), Promising Loyalty
2:15 Andrew S. Gold (DePaul University), Accommodating Loyalty
3:00 Break
Session 4
3:15 Gregory Klass (Georgetown University), What if Fiduciary Obligations Are Like Contractual Ones?
4:00 Lionel D. Smith (McGill University), Contract, Consent and Fiduciary Relationships
4:45 Arthur Laby (Rutgers University), Reasonable Expectations and Good Faith in Fiduciary Relationships
Saturday, November 7, 2015
8:00 Coffee & Pastries
Session 1
8:30 Irit Samet (King’s College London), Fiduciary Law as Equity’s Child
9:15 John Goldberg & Benjamin Zipursky (Harvard University & Fordham University), Fiduciary Duty and the Workaday World
10:00 Emily Sherwin (Cornell University), Formal Elements of Contract and Fiduciary Law
10:45 Break
Session 2
11:00 Gordon Smith (Brigham Young University), Contracts and Firms
11:45 Aditi Bagchi (Fordham University), Exit, Choice and Employee Loyalty
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Workshop Concludes
Please note that this event is by invitation only. Inquiries may be directed to paul.miller [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contract%2C%20Status%2C%20and%20Fiduciary%20Law%20Workshop) (Prof. Paul B. Miller. )
