Miami has assembled a strong lineup of papers and presenters for its Law & Finance workshop. If there is a paper you’re interested in, you can register to attend remotely.
We are excited to announce the 2025-26 schedule for the Miami Law & Finance Workshop, set out below. All workshops will be held on zoom on Fridays, from 1pm to 2pm ET. Please use this form to register for the Fall workshops. We will send the draft paper and zoom link to registered participants one week before each workshop. The registration form for the Spring 2026 workshops will be circulated later in the year.
Please feel free to share this with others who might be interested. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Warm regards
Nikita Aggarwal, Caroline Bradley, & George Georgiev (workshop co-organizers)
Miami Law & Finance Workshop, 2025-26
Fall 2025
1. Friday, August 22: William Magnuson (Texas A&M) presenting “The Deep Learning of Hedge Funds.”
– Howell Jackson (Harvard) discussing.
2. Friday, September 5: Luca Enriques (Bocconi), Matteo Gatti (Rutgers), & Roy Shapira (Reichman) presenting “How the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Could Reshape Corporate America.”
– Sarah Haan (Brooklyn) discussing.
3. Friday, September 26: James Tierney (Chicago Kent) & Geeyoung Min (Michigan State) presenting “Stock Exchanges as For-Profit Rulemakers.”
– Verity Winship (Illinois) discussing.
4. Friday, October 17: Jared Mayer (Cardozo) presenting “Reorganization by Force.”
– Michelle Harner (Bankr. D. Md.) discussing.
5. Friday, November 14: Ben Bates (Harvard) presenting “Retail Access to Private Markets.”
– Colleen Honigsberg (Stanford) discussing.
Spring 2026
1. Friday, January 23: Mitu Gulati (UVA), Ugo Panizza (Graduate Institute), Diego Rivetti (World Bank), & Mark Weidemaier (UNC), presenting “Cambodia’s Unpaid War Debts to the United States and Implications.”
– Discussant TBC.
2. Friday, February 13: Natalya Shnitser (Boston College) presenting “Shadow Shareholders.”
– Discussant TBC.
3. Friday, March 13: Dolan Bortner (Stanford) presenting “Private Inequity: Business Law Solutions for Better PE Healthcare.”
– Discussant TBC.
4. Friday, April 10: Itai Fiegenbaum (St. Thomas) presenting “Hiding in Plain Sight: A Counter-Narrative of Controlling Shareholders in American Political Finance.”
– Jonathan Macey (Yale) discussing.
5. Friday, May 1: Lev Breydo (William & Mary) presenting “Crypto & the Horse: A Multidimensional Taxonomy & Empirical Framework.”
– Carla Reyes (SMU) discussing.