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Columbia Law Professor John C. Coffee Jr. to Deliver Rosenthal Lectures on February 21-23:
"The Public Corporation in The Global Era"

John C. Coffee Jr., Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law, one of America's foremost scholars in the fields of corporate law and securities regulation, class actions, criminal law, and white collar crime, will deliver the annual Julius Rosenthal Lectures at Northwestern University School of Law at noon each day on February 21, 22 and 23.

The topic of the lectures is "The Public Corporation in the Global Era". Individual lectures are as follows:

Monday, February 21: "Global Corporate Convergence: Politics vs. Economics - Which Forces Will Prevail?"

Tuesday, February 22: "Starting from Scratch: The Experience of the Transitional Economies at Designing Corporate Governance Structures"

Wednesday, February 23: "Who Wins? Who Loses? - The Normative Scorecard and the Political and Social Consequences of Global Convergence Time and Location"

The Rosenthal Lectures begin at noon and will be held at the Law School, 357 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL. A reception will follow each lecture.

John C. Coffee, Jr. has been an active participant in many of the leading corporate law issues of the day, serving as a reporter for the American Law Institute's Principles of Corporate Governance. He currently serves as a member of the SEC's Advisory Committee on the Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes, the Subcouncil on Capital Markets of the United States Competitiveness Policy Council, and the Legal Advisory Board to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and has recently served as a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange.

Recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States," Professor Coffee is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia, he was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, which he joined after practicing corporate law with the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and the University of Michigan Law School. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School and received an LLM in taxation from New York University.

Professor Coffee is the co-author of some of the most widely used publications in the corporate and securities field, including Cases and Materials on Securities Regulation (8th ed., 1998) (with Jennings, Marsh, and Seligman); Knights, Raiders and Targets: The Impact of the Hostile Takeover (with Lowenstein and Rose-Ackerman, 1988); Cases and Materials on Corporations (with Choper and Gilson, 4th ed., 1995); and Business Organization and Finance (with Klein, 6th ed., 1995).

The Julius Rosenthal Foundation was established in 1919 in memory of Julius Rosenthal, an eminent and beloved member of the bar. The Rosenthal Lecture Series, which began in 1927, is one of the preeminent lecture programs in the legal world. Its speakers have included Amartya Kumar Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, Richard A. Posner, Guido Calabresi, Archibald Cox, Arthur J. Goldberg, Adolf A. Berle Jr., and Adlai E. Stevenson. Publication of the lectures has made a notable contribution to legal literature and scholarship for more than 70 years.