Registration is now open for the fall 2026 Law and Finance Workshop series. Please use this form to register. All workshops take place on Fridays from 1pm to 2pm ET via Zoom. Registered participants will receive the draft paper and zoom link one week before each workshop. 

Law & Finance Workshop Schedule 2026-27 

Fall 2026 

Friday, August 28: Jeffrey Zhang (Michigan) & Dan Awrey (Cornell) presenting Money Cop.

– Kate Judge (Columbia) discussing.

Friday, September 18: David Zaring (Wharton) presenting Financial Regulation’s New Paradigm. 

– Howell Jackson (Harvard) discussing.

Friday, October 9: Yuliya Guseva (Florida State), Irena Hutton (Florida State), Adam Pritchard (Michigan), & Joseph Grundfest (Stanford) presenting Judicial Review of SEC Rulemaking.

– Amanda Rose (Vanderbilt) discussing.

Friday, October 30: Andrew Tuch (WashU) presenting Conflict and Collapse: Goldman Sachs, Silicon Valley Bank, and the Myth of Information Barriers.

– Afra Afsharipour (UC Davis) discussing.

Friday, November 13: Elizabeth King (Boston University) presenting Debt’s Hidden Hand.

– George Georgiev (Miami) discussing.

Spring 2027 (discussants TBA)

Friday, January 22: Morgan Ricks (Vanderbilt) & Lev Menand (Columbia) presenting The Berle Curve.

Friday, February 19: Isabelle Zhang (Virginia) presenting Legalism Without Information: Foreign Issuers, U.S. Enforcement, and the Limits of Bonding.

Friday, March 19: Belisa Pang (Michigan), Matt Bruckner (Howard), & Dalié Jiménez (UC Irvine) presenting The Missing Cases: Student Loan Discharge in Bankruptcy After Reform. 

Friday, April 16: Andrew Granato (UT Austin) & Pranjal Drall (Yale) presenting Private Credit’s State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers. 

Friday, May 7: Maria Lucia Passador (Bocconi) presenting When Markets are Simulated: Synthetic Data in Corporate and Financial Law.