How the International Community Responded the Global Financial Crisis: an All-day Symposium at Cleveland-Marshall College of La

The frenzied crisis on Wall Street that closed Lehman Brothers and threatened to collapse banks, investors and key businesses across America, spread like a virus across the globe.

On October 23, scholars and practitioners of international law will describe measures undertaken by governments from Latin America to the Far East to respond to the crises in an all-day symposium at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law on East 18th and Euclid Avenue.

The Cleveland-Marshall Global Business Law Review Symposium’s “International Finance after the Crash—Regional Responses to the Global Financial Crises of 2009” begins at noon and concludes at 5:00 PM. The Symposium offers 3.5 hours of Continuing Legal Education credit. The cost is $90.

Speakers and topics include:

Robert Brown, Partner, Greenbaum, Doll & McDonald presenting a Comparative Analysis of Financial Crises: John Law and Mississippi Scheme, South Sea Bubble, Tulipmania, 1929 Depression, October 1987 Crisis, Dot.com Crisis and the 2008-09 Crisis;

Bruce J.L. Lowe, Partner, Taft, Stetinnius & Hollister, speaking on The Response to the Financial Meltdown in the UK and Europe;

Daniel Chow, OSU Joseph S. Platt-Porter Wright & Arthur Professor of Law lecturing on China’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis;

Isam Salah, Partner, King & Spalding, speaking on The Response to the Global Crisis in the Middle East.

Cleveland-Marshall Professor of Law Mark Sundahl will introduce the speakers and moderate the question-and-answer portion of the symposium.

To register, contactNeil.McGowan@law.csuohio.edu,Andrew.Trout@law.csuohio.eduor phone 216.687.6886.

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