The Ethical Challenges of the Market

October 5-6, 2017 – Ithaca, NY

Co-sponsored by:

Cornell Law School – The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University

October 5th, 2017

9:30-10:00   Introduction – Eduardo Peñalver, Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell University

10:00- 12:00 Foundations – Chair: Jeffrey Rachlinski, Cornell Law School

• The Rationality of Promising/ Emily Sherwin, Cornell Law School
   
• Against Market Insularity: Markets, Responsibility and Law/ Avihay Dorfman, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TAU
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• Markets for Self-Authorship/ Hanoch Dagan, Director of The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, TAU

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:30- 15:30 The Market and the State – Chair: Bradley Wendel, Cornell Law School

• Captured by Evil?: Markets, Morals and the Rule of Law/ Laura Underkuffler, Cornell Law School
   
• The Right To Destroy and The Duty To Preserve/ Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell Law School
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• State Inc./ Tsilly Dagan, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law & Talia Fisher, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TAU

15:30- 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00- 18:00 Markets and Families – Chair: Cynthia Bowman, Cornell Law School

• Regulation Markets for Gestational Care: Comparative Prespectiveson Surrogacy  in the United States and India/ Sital Kalantry, Cornell Law School

• Questioning Market Aversion in Gender Equality Strategies: Designing Legal Mechanisms for the Promotion of Gender Equality in the Family and the Market/ Tsilly Dagan, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, Hila Shamir, Vice Dean, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TAU & Ayelet Carmeli, TAU

• Families and the Ethics of the Globordered Market/ Daphna Hacker, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TAU

19:00   Dinner and Coltivare

October 6th, 2017

9:30- 12:00  Financial Markets – Chair: Michael Dorf, Cornell Law School

• Just Prices/ Robert Hockett, Cornell Law School & Roy Kreitner, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TAU

• The Morals of The Financial Marketplace: Risk, Culture, and Structure/ Saule Omarova, Cornell Law School
   
• Toward A More Democratic Capitalism: The Universal Fund/ Lynn Stout & Sergio Gramitto, Cornell Law School
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• The Changing Politics of Central Banking/ Annelise Riles, Cornell Law School

12:00   Conclusion

Papers presented at the conference will be published in a forthcoming issue of Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.