Distinguished Business Law Speakers Program
Western Law’s pre-eminence in Canadian business law studies is reflected in its extraordinary visiting business and law speakers programs. These programs are, without question, the finest in the country and indeed are second to none anywhere in the world. Top international scholars and business leaders visit Western Law each year to speak to our students or teach intensive specialized courses, under the auspices of our signature business law visitors programs: the Business and Law Scholarship Seminar, the annual Western Law Business and Law Lecture, and the Richard H. McLaren Visiting Professorship in Business Law.
Business law visitors to Western Law since 2007 have included six Nobel prize winners, a former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, the Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court and many of the most prominent business law professors from the world's leading law schools, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, NYU, Chicago, Georgetown, Penn, Northwestern, Melbourne, Tokyo, and the Max Planck Institute.
Among the dozens of internationally-renowned business and law scholars and policy leaders who have visited Western Law to lecture or, in some cases, to offer intensive courses for Western Law students as part of our JD program since 2007 are the following:
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Sir Oliver Hart (Co-recipient of 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics) |
Robert Shiller (Co-recipient of 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics) |
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Myron S. Scholes (Co-recipient of 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics) |
George Akerlof (Co-recipient of 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics) |
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Bengt Holmstrőm (Co-recipient of 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics) |
Jean Tirole (Recipient of 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics) |
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Lawrence Summers (Former US Secretary of the Treasury; President Emeritus, Harvard University) and Chrystia Freeland (Currently Canadian Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada) |
Leo E. Strine, Jr. (Former Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court)
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Frank Easterbrook (Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) |
Gary Gorton (Yale) |
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Roberta Romano (Yale) |
Hideki Kanda (University of Tokyo) |
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Lisa Fairfax (Penn) |
Katharina Pistor (Columbia) |
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Reinier Kraakman (Harvard) |
Klaus Hopt (Max Planck Institute) |
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Brian Cheffins (Cambridge) |
Ronald Gilson (Stanford/Columbia) |
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Douglas Baird (Chicago) |
John Armour (Oxford) |
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Ian Ramsay (Melbourne) |
Henry Hu (Texas) |
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Kevin Davis (NYU) |
Eric Talley (Columbia) |
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Henry Hansmann (Yale) |
Lynn Stout (Cornell) |
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Hal Scott (Harvard) |
William Bratton (Penn) |
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Alan Schwartz (Yale) |
Robert Daines (Stanford) |
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Donald Langevoort (Georgetown) |
Ian Ayres (Yale) |
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Merritt Fox (Columbia) |
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt) |
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Bernard Black (Northwestern) |
David Skeel (Penn) |
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Henry Hu (Texas) |
Howell Jackson (Harvard) |
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Jeffrey Gordon (Columbia) |
George Priest (Yale) |
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Michael Klausner (Stanford) |
Eric Posner (Chicago) |
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Mariana Pargendler (FGV/Harvard) |
Jennifer Arlen (NYU) |
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Robert Jackson (NYU) |
Jill Fisch (Penn) |
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Edward Rock (NYU) |
Jesse Fried (Harvard) |
