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 Fordham Corporate Law Center

The Fordham Center for Corporate, Securities and Financial Law was formed in 2001 to serve as a focal point for the school's business law programs.  Capitalizing on the Law School's strong academic reputation, its alumni network of prominent corporate and business leaders, and its location in the financial capital of the world, the Center provides a forum in which attorneys and policy makers can address issues of importance to the business community.

The Center's programs include roundtable discussions, at which leaders in the business community are invited to debate financial issues and business challenges and to formulate policy in an academic environment that is independent of partisanship or client influence. The Center also hosts a number of public programs and lectures. Recent speakers have included Congressman Michael Oxley, FSA Director of Enforcement Margaret Cole, Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, NYSE Director of Enforcement Richard Ketchum, Former PCAOB Chair William McDonough, and Federal Reserve Board Governor Susan Schmidt Bies.

The Center enjoys the support of a specialized scholarly journal, the Journal of Corporate & Financial Law, which has published the products of many Center programs.  The Center runs an Advanced Business Law Seminar in which students are introduced to leading business law academics and cutting edge legal scholarship. Additional Center programs include the Business Law Practitioners Series as well as more informal brown bag lunches and paper presentations.  The Center operates under the leadership of a distinguished Board of Advisors chaired by Paul Soden, Esq., FLS '65.

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