If you happen to be traveling in the region of Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday or Friday, feel free to stop by and catch all or part of this year’s National Business Law Scholars Conference, hosted by the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law at The University of Tennessee College of Law. The final schedule will be posted on the conference website within the next day, but I can tell you now that we start at 8:15 am for breakfast on Thursday (9:15 am for the program) and run through a 5:30 pm reception, and we start at at 8:00 am for breakfast on Friday (8:45 am for the program) and run until 3:30 pm. We have, as usual, a number of engaging plenary programs, but the conference mostly consists of scholarly paper panels. As always, the schedule has been produced by the incomparable Eric Chaffee (who is moving to Case Western Law this summer). He is amazing.
The morning plenaries (which start the conference proceedings each day) focus on entrepreneurship, a topic of focus for and strength of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and The University of Tennessee College of Law, working through our Transactional Law Clinic. Thursday’s morning plenary panel focuses on the engagement of law schools with university and community venture activity. Friday’s morning plenary session features an interview with two lawyer entrepreneurs who will help us explore our ability, as business law professors, to help prepare our students for entrepreneurship.
The third plenary session (Thursday, just after lunch) is an author-meets-readers program on Adam Pritchard’s recently released book, A HISTORY OF SECURITIES LAW IN THE SUPREME COURT (Oxford University Press 2023). Adam previewed aspects of the book in a presentation at the Neel Corporate Governance Center last fall. We are in for a real treat! UT Law is so pleased to be able to host this session at the conference. Adam has been a regular National Business Law Scholars Conference attendee and frequently offers constructive comments on other business law scholars’ works at the conference.
I look forward to seeing many of you later in the week! We are so glad to have everyone at UT Law in person this year for the conference.