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Webcasting 101: TV on Your PC
by Kendall Callas
If your shoes are waterproof, jump in for another cruise through the unpredictable waters of streaming video in the legal community.

My researches for hidden caches of video on the Internet have taught me new respect for the treasures placed on the web by law schools. Regular readers of this column have seen webcasts from many law schools featured in these pages.

WHAT’S ON TONIGHT?

In this edition of our continuing adventure, another law school offers up a treasure chest of video over the Internet, this time Yale — with a focus on corporate law.

Go to http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ccl and then click ‘Activities' at left, then ‘Lectures', or go directly to ...

“The Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law”
[play
button]http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ccl/ccl_Lectures.htm

(Media player required: RealPlayer.)

YALE CORPORATE LAW

Yale's Center for the Study of Corporate Law hosts several lecture series which have generated video on a variety of topics. The current offering includes about a dozen webcasts, most about an hour and a quarter, ranging from 2002 to 2006, listed below in chronological order:

  • "Partial Contracts" by Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University - April 24, 2006

  • "Voluntary vs. Mandatory Corporate Governance Regulation: Theory and Evidence" by Anita Anand, Associate Professor, Queen's University Faculty of Law and Yale Law School Visiting Lecturer in Law - March 9, 2006 (PDF only, no video)

  • "Did the SEC Improve Corporate Disclosure? Evidence from the 1930s" by Paul Mahoney, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law and Albert C. BeVier Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law - February 20, 2006 (I could not play this Quicktime video.)

  • "The Race for the Bottom in Corporate Governance" by Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and formerly Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School - December 5, 2005

  • "The Economic History of the Corporate Form in Ancient India" by Vic Khanna, Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law, Michigan Law School - November 17, 2005 (PDF and PowerPoint slides only, no video)

  • "The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise" by Lucian Bebchuk, the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance at Harvard Law School - November 15, 2005

  • "Who Appoints Them, What Do they Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan" by J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School - March 30, 2004

  • "Directors' Duties and Behavioral Economics" by Prof. Dr. Erich Schanze, LL.M. of the Institut für Rechtsvergleichung, Phillips-Universität Marburg, Germany - March 23, 2004 (PDF only, no video)

  • "Searching for Market Manipulation in the Pre-SEC Era" by Paul G. Mahoney, '84, the Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law and Albert C. BeVier Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law - May 7, 2003

  • "Engineering Venture Capital Markets" by Ronald J. Gilson, '71, the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and the Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business at Columbia University School of Law - February 28, 2002.


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Kendall Callas, , is president of American Webcast and a 20-year veteran law office technology consultant.


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