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Public Policy Conferences

INAUGURAL AGEP PUBLIC POLICY CONFERENCE
(Wednesday, April 22nd - Friday, April 24th, 2009)

AGENDA

• The Financial Meltdown: How Did We Get Here and Where Do We Go from Here?

          o Mechanics of the Meltdown
                ♦ Power Point Slides
                      ♦ The Financial Crisis (Kennet Ayotte, Allan Horwich, David Van Zandt)

          o The Special Role of Subprime Mortgage Lending
                ♦ Power Point Slides
                      ♦ How We Got Here (Peter Wallison)
                      ♦ The Special Role of Subprime Lending (Steven Ramirez)
                ♦ Readings
                      ♦ The Last Trillion-Dollar Commitment: The Destruction of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Peter J. Wallison and Charles W. Calomiris)
          o The Role of Regulation in the Meltdown: Too much? Not enough? Not the right stuff?
                ♦ Power Point Slides
                      ♦ Robert E. Litan
                ♦ Readings
                      ♦ Regulating Systemic Risk (Robert E. Litan)
                      ♦ Reinventing GSEs: Treasury’s Plan for Financial Restructuring (Peter J. Wallison)
                      ♦ Risky Business: Casting the Fed as a Systemic Risk Regulator (Peter J. Wallison)
                      ♦ Cause and Effect: Government Policies and the Financial Crisis (Peter J. Wallison)
                      ♦ Regulation without Reason: The Group of Thirty Report (Peter J. Wallison)
          o The Aftermath: The Proper Role of Civil and Criminal Enforcement in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
                ♦ Power Point Slides
                            ♦ Richard F. Ziegler
                            ♦ Allan Horwich
                            ♦ Steven Ramirez

•  Consumer Protection: Feds Versus the States

          o An Expanding State Role: The Consumer Product Safety Improvements Act
                ♦ Power Point Slides
                      ♦ Federal Consumer Product Safety Law, and The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (Hal Stratton)

          o State Consumer Protection Acts and the Boundaries of Preemption
                ♦ Power Point Slides
                      ♦ Mark Herrmann
                      ♦ Teresa Schwartz
                      ♦ J.W. Verrett

 

Contact
For more information regarding the Attorneys General Education Program, please call (312) 503-2686 or send an email to agep@law.northwestern.edu.