Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America, an excerpt from a new book by Prof. David A. Skeel, Jr.

PETER H. HUANG Assistant Professor of Law was selected to be a participant in the Law & Society Association Summer Institute “Legal Scholars and Social Scientists: Critique, Challenge, and Collaboration” hosted by the American Bar Foundation, and the Graduate School and the Law School at Northwestern University. He was an invited discussant for a conference on “Psychology and Finance” in Mannheim, Germany. He presented “Emotional Investing and Securities Regulation” at the Law and Society Annual Meetings in Budapest, Hungary; Emotions in Human Behaviour and Family Law Implications” at the Canadian Law and Economics Association annual meetings in Toronto, Canada; “Regulating Securities Professionals: Emotional and Moral Aspects of Fiduciary Investing” at the University of Iowa Law School; and “International Environmental Law and Emotional Rational Choice” at the Behavioral Law and Economics Seminar at the University of Michigan Law School. He presented “Financial Derivatives and Systemic Risks: International Contagion, Global Illiquidity, or Unfounded Fears?” at Penn Law’s Journal for International Economic Law’s Symposium on Current Topics in International Securities Law in Jan. 2001; “Incorporating Emotional Rational Actors into Behavioral Law and Economics: Implications for Securities Regulation and Family Law” at the Olin Law and Economics workshop, Georgetown University Law Center in Feb. 2001; “Beliefs, Fears & Feelings of Guilt in Securities Investing” at the Olin Law and Economics workshop at Boalt Law School, University of California at Berkeley in March 2001; “Emotions in Human Behavior: Family Law and Securities Regulation Implications” at the American Law and Economics Association annual meeting in May 2001; “Emotions in Organizations: Boiler Rooms & Securities Regulation” at Behavioral Economics, Organization & Law, a conference sponsored by the University of Southern California Law School and the California Institute of Technology in June 2001. In 2000, Huang presented “Rationality and Its Competitors” on the Law and Economics panel at the Association of American Law School annual meeting in January; “A Normative Analysis of New Financially Engineered Derivatives” at Northwestern University Law School in the same month; he presented “Anger, Remorse, and Bargaining over Property Rights” at the University of Oregon Conference on Community, Law and Power: The New Law and Economics in March 2000; “Derivatives on TV, in the Media, and at the Movies” at the Law and Society Association annual meeting in May 2000; “The Future of Marriage: Economic Perspectives” for the PBI and Penn Law School’s Family Law 2000 Symposium in November 2000; “Emotional Rational Actors” at the California Institute of Technology in November 2000; and “Reasons Within Passions: Emotions & Intentions in Property Rights Bargaining” at USC Law School in December 2000.

Securities Price Risks and Financial Derivatives, 21(3) Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business (Forthcoming 2001)

Derivatives on TV: A Tale of Two Derivatives Debacles in Prime-Time (co-author Kim Krawiec and Frank Partnoy), 4 Green Bag 2d. 257 (2001); excerpted and reprinted as A Tale of Two Derivative Debacles on Prime-Time TV, 12 Derivatives Report 15 (2001)

Teaching Corporate Law From an Options Perspective, Symposium: Teaching Corporate Law, 34 University of Georgia Law Review 571 (2000); excerpted and reprinted as Corporate Finance: An Options Prospective, 10 Derivatives Report 17 (2001)

Corporate Finance, Corporate Law and Finance Theory (co-author Michael S. Knoll), 74 Southern California Law Review 175 (2000)

Reasons within Passions: Emotions and Intentions in Property Rights Bargaining (Symposium): New and Critical Approaches to Law and Economics), 79 Oregon Law Review 435 (2000)

Still Preying on Strategic Reputation Models of Predation: A Review of John R. Lott, Jr. “Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?” 3 Green Bag 2d. 437 (2000)

A Normative Analysis of New Financially Engineered Derivatives, 73 Southern California Law Review 471 (2000); reprinted in 12 Derivatives Report 13 (2000) and reprinted in 33 Securities Law Review 637 (2001)