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Program
2009 Mid-Year Meeting
Date: June 7 — 12, 2009
Location: The Westin Long Beach

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Sessions

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3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Registration

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
AALS Reception for Conference on Business Associations

8:45 am - 9:00 am
Introduction

8:45 am - 9:00 am
Welcome

9:00 am - 10:30 am
Role of Basic Course: What It Is and Where It Is Going?

10:30 am - 10:45 am
Refreshment Break

10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Small Group Discussions

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Conference on Business Associations Luncheon

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Business Associations Pedagogy: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Basic and Advanced Courses

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Refreshment Break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Case Studies in Business Associations Courses

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Corporate Finance

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Teaching Business Associations Through Other Lenses

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Teaching Transactional Courses in Conjunction with Lawyers

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Transaction Approaches to Business Associations Pedagogy

5:15 pm - 7:00 pm
AALS Reception for Conference on Business Associations

9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Registration

9:00 am - 10:15 am
What are the Objectives of the Public Companies and Who Decides?

10:15 am - 10:30 am
Refreshment Break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Small Group #4

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Small Group Discussions: Teaching Ideology?

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Conference on Business Associations Luncheon

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Trends in Business Associations Scholarship

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Refreshment Break

3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions on Trends in Business Associations Scholarship

3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
How do Academics and Judges Value Corporate Law Scholarship?

3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Transaction-Focused Scholarship

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
AALS Reception

9:00 am - 7:00 pm
AALS Registration

9:00 am - 10:15 am
Perspectives from Practice

10:15 am - 10:30 am
Refreshment Break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Small Group #1

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Small Group #2

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Small Group #5

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Small Group Discussions

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Conference on Business Associations Luncheon

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Introduction

1:45 pm - 1:45 pm
Welcome

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Introduction

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Joint Plenary of AALS Workshop on Work Law and AALS Conference on Business Associations: Corporate Law Approaches to Employee/Labor Interests

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Welcome

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Joint Plenary Session with Conference on Business Associations and Workshop on Transactional Law: Integrating Transactional Law in the Traditional Courses

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Refreshment Break

3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Changing Nature of Contemporary Employment Discrimination

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Small Group Discussions

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Works-in-Progress -Joint with Conference on Business Associations with Workshop on Transactional Law: Transactional Scholarship in Business Associations

5:15 pm - 7:00 pm
Joint AALS Reception for Conference on Business Associations, Workshop on Work Law and Workshop on Transactional Law

8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
AALS Registration

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
How Does Law Change Organizational Culture? The Problem of Compliance with Workplace Law

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Session: What is the Big Idea?

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Session: Empirical Study of Contracts

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Session: Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business Transactions

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Session: International

10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Session: Legal Profession

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Small Group Discussions on Conducting Empirical Research on the Workplace

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
AALS Luncheon - Teaching Work Law Through Simulation and Other Skills-Oriented Methods
This session will discuss how to incorporate simulations and skills training into the work law curriculum.

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Workshop on Transactional Law Luncheon

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Workshop on Work Law Luncheon

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Plenary Session: Methods of Scholarship

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Plenary Session: National Origin and Immigration

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
How Transactional Structures Create Value

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Information Flow and Fraud Interdiction: An Empirical Study of Law Firm Due Diligence

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
More Than Merely Incidental: An Argument for Third Party Beneficary Rights in Inner-City Redevelopment Contracts

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Plenary Session: Supreme Court Update and Legislation

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Report on an Empirical Investigation of Outsourcing Agreements

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Works-in-Progress: Innovations in Transactional Scholarship

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
AALS Joint Reception for Workshop on Work Law and Workshop on Transactional Law

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint AALS Reception for Workshop on Work Law and Workshop on Transactional Law

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
AALS Registration

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Plenary Session: Case Methods

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Plenary Session: Labor Law in the 21st Century

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Finance Transactions Concentration

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Mittal Steel in Liberia

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Plenary Session- Teaching Innovations

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Teaching Transactional Business Law Skills Through an Intellecutual Property Lens

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Health Benefits and ERISA Preemption

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Low Wage Work

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Small Group on Teaching: Corporate and Finance

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Small Group on Teaching: Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Small Group on Teaching: International and Comparative

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Small Group on Teaching: Real Estate Transactions

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Small Groups on Teaching

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
AALS Luncheon of AALS Workshop on Work Law

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Workshop on Transactional Law Luncheon

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Arbitration

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Reforming the Content of Work Law Courses