“Wall Street Fraud and Fiduciary Duties: Can Jail Time Serve as an Adequate Deterrent for Willful Violations?”

April 27, 2010

NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs has scheduled a hearing on "Wall Street Fraud and Fiduciary Duties: Can Jail Time Serve as an Adequate Deterrent for Willful Violations?" for Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Chairman Specter to preside.

By order of the Chairman.

UPDATED Witness List

Hearing before the
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs

On

"Wall Street Fraud and Fiduciary Duties: Can Jail Time Serve as an Adequate Deterrent for Willful Violations?"

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
9:30 a.m.

Morning Panel I

The Honorable Richard Blumenthal
Connecticut Attorney General
Hartford, CT

Barbara Roper
Director of Investor Protection
Consumer Federation of America
Pueblo, CO

Andrew Weissman
Partner
Jenner & Block
New York, NY

Damon Silvers
Associate General Counsel
AFL-CIO
Washington, D.C.

Morning Panel II
John C. Coffee, Jr.
Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
New York, NY

Henry N. Pontell
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, and Sociology
University of California (Irvine)
Irvine, CA

J. W. Verret
Assistant Professor of Law
George Mason University
Arlington, VA

Larry Ribstein
Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair, Associate Dean for Research
University of Illinois College of Law
Champaign, IL

Afternoon Panel

The Honorable Lanny A. Breuer
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.