[SMULA-SGRI] Module 1 The Law and Economics of Corporate Insolvency <Professor Felix Steffek>

SYNOPSIS

In this course, we will explore the economic and legal foundations of corporate insolvency law. 

The first module investigates the economic problems that corporate insolvency law tries to solve, the policy aims that corporate insolvency law may have and the legal strategies that public (e.g., statutes) and private (e.g. contracts) ordering employs. 

The second module concentrates on the responsibility of directors and shareholders in the financial distress of the corporation. It engages with the question of which regulatory models work best to avoid value-destructive decision-making. 

The third module raises the question whether mandatory law or contract (or a combination thereof) are better suited to solve the challenges of financial distress and which role technology such as artificial intelligence has to play. 

SPEAKER

Professor Felix Steffek is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and Senior Member of Newnham College. He serves as Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) and holds a JM Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics awarded by the University of Cambridge. He is SGRI Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University and Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. 

His research interests cover corporate finance and insolvency law, commercial law, dispute resolution and artificial intelligence. He has advised international organisations, governments, parliaments and courts in these areas. He is the representative for law on the Academic Publishing Committee of Cambridge University Press. 

Felix Steffek is leading multiple research projects on artificial intelligence and law, among them the Nuffield Foundation funded project on ‘Access to Justice Through Artificial Intelligence’ and the AHRC funded project on ‘Explainable and Ethical Legal Artificial Intelligence’. For further information please see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/f-steffek/6136.

FEES

The registration fees for this course is $392.40 (including GST). 

Please note that there will be no refund of any fees should the participant cancel the registration/ fail to attend the event. However, registration is transferable. Notice of any change in participant should be sent to SMULA, by 10 November 2024.

SMU Law Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone any event. In such case, we will arrange for the refund of fees paid.