WHAT: "Post Enron America and SEC Perspectives," the fourteenth annual Dyson Distinguished Lecture, presented by Pace Law School.

WHEN: Monday, March 10, 4 PM

WHO: Harvey J. Goldschmid, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law. Goldschmid has served as general counsel of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and in 2000 served as special senior advisor to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt. He also is of counsel at Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

Professor Goldschmid is the author of numerous publications on corporate, securities, and antitrust law and is a frequent lecturer at national and international legal programs and seminars. He served in 1997-98 as a consultant to both the Federal Trade Commission and the SEC, and during this period, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange’s Legal Advisory Committee (and chair of its Subcommittee on Corporate Governance). For the New York City Bar association he has served as chair of the Committee on Securities Regulation and chair of the Committee on Antitrust and Trade Regulation. He also served as chair of the Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation of the Association of American Law Schools and as founding director of Columbia University’s Center for Law and Economic Studies.

From 1980-93, Professor Goldschmid served as a reporter for the American Law Institute’s Corporate Governance Project. He now serves as chair of the Nominating Committee, and in 1998, completed a term as treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee of the New York Bar Association, where he chairs the Executive Committee.

He received the 1999 Chairman’s Award for Excellence from the SEC, and several teaching awards, including Columbia Law School’s Willis L. M. Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1996 and 1997.

WHERE: Classroom Building 101, Pace Law School, 78 North Broadway, White Plains, New York

Members of the press must RSVP to Jennifer Riekert: (914) 422-4128 or jriekert@law.pace.edu . 

Contact: Bill Caldwell

(914) 422-4128 (212) 346-1597
jriekert@law.pace.edu wcaldwell@pace.edu

Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is located in White Plains, N.Y., 20 miles north of New York City. The School offers the J.D. program for full-time, and part-time day, and evening students. Its post-graduate program includes the LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees in Environmental Law and an LL.M. in Comparative Legal Studies. Pace has one of the nation's top-rated environmental law programs and its Clinical Education Program also is nationally ranked, offering clinics in domestic violence prosecution, securities arbitration, criminal justice, and disability rights.