discrimination against gay, lesbian, or transgender individuals on religious grounds. She also gave a presentation on current theories of property at the Association for Law, Property, and Society annual meeting in April, and moderated a panel on the future of the new national health care law at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in January.
During his sabbatical, Charles K. Whitehead joined the faculty of the Peking University Law School as their first fulltime “foreign expert” and visiting professor of law, where he taught a course on mergers and acquisitions. He was also invited to law schools and conferences across China, including the Annual Conference of the China Securities Research Institute, to present topics in mergers and acquisitions and financial regulation. In addition, Whitehead was selected from an at-large pool of Cornell University faculty to join a multidisciplinary team that will focus on the social scientific study of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Cornell during 2013– 2016.
His paper, “Lawyers and Fools: Lawyer-Directors in Public Corporations” (with coauthors Lubomir Litov and Simone Sepe), was accepted for publication by the Georgetown Law Journal. The paper, which was profiled in financial and legal publications, including the Financial Times and Corporate Counsel, is the first to analyze the rise of lawyer-directors in public, nonfinancial firms. It explains why the number of lawyer-directors has increased, as well as the impact of lawyerdirectors on corporate monitoring and the reduction in risk-taking and increase in firm value that result from having a lawyer on the board. Whitehead was invited to participate in a panel on the Volcker Rule at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In addition, he was invited to present a working paper at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France, on the effect of the competition for talent among bank nonexecutives on compensation and risktaking. Whitehead presented on global financial regulation at a conference sponsored by the Fordham University School of Law and the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European, and Regulatory Procedural Law. He also lectured on mergers and acquisitions in Lusaka, Zambia, in presentations sponsored by the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR) and the Law Association of Zambia, and on capital structure and corporate
During his sabbatical, Whitehead joined the faculty of the Peking University Law School as their first full-time “foreign expert” and visiting professor of law, where he taught a course on mergers and acquisitions.
governance in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in a presentation sponsored by the American University of Mongolia. Before departing for Beijing, Whitehead oversaw the Cornell Law School Conference on Law, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Sponsored by the Clarke Business Law Institute and the Cornell Law Review, the conference drew over one hundred lawyers, regulators, academics, and entrepreneurs
from around the country. He also oversaw “Raising the Bar: Careers and Experiences of CLS Alumnae,” a daylong conference for students sponsored by the Women’s Law Coalition. The conference’s four panels focused on careers as in-house counsel and in business, law firms, and government and public interest. Whitehead’s media interviews included the Financial Times, Reuters, Fox Business News, and China Central Television (CCTV). n
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