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The fifth annual Fred Dunbar Memorial Lecture in Law and Economics will be given this year by preeminent legal scholar Professor Donald C. Langevoort. His lecture is titled “Cultures of Compliance.”

The lecture will run from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, and will be followed by a reception. 

Donald C. Langevoort is the Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a leading scholar of corporate and securities law. Before joining the faculty of Georgetown University, Professor Langevoort held the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University School of Law; served as Special Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at the US Securities & Exchange Commission; and was a practitioner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC.

Professor Langevoort received his JD from Harvard Law School and his BA from the University of Virginia. His recent research focuses on behavioral compliance: the use of psychological savvy to design compliance programs that stop “good people” from doing bad things. Behavioral considerations also feature prominently in his 2016 book, Selling Hope, Selling Risk: Corporations, Wall Street, and the Dilemmas of Investor Protection.

The annual lecture was established to honor Dr. Fred Dunbar's pioneering role in securities litigation, which raised the standard for economists' expert testimony from one comfortable with subjective opinion to one emphasizing objective, scientifically-based analysis. Fordham Law is hosting the series in conjunction with NERA Economic Consulting.

Past programs:

2013 Sheila C. Bair, Former Chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and Head of The Systemic Risk Council

2014 The Honorable Ralph K. Winter, Jr., Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, “The Limits on the Use of Economics in Law”

2015 The Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, “The Supreme Court and Business Litigation”

2016 Professor Christine Jolls, Yale Law School, “The New Behavioral Law and Economics: Respecting Citizens’ Knowledge in Nutrition Labeling, Securities, and Tobacco Regulation”