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April 16, 2024 - "Soaring Debt Levels Put Policymakers in a Tight Spot", Financial Times
March 14, 2024 - "A 'True Vision ary': Ira Millstein, Longtime Weil Partner and Corporate Governance 'Guru,' Dies at 97", New York Law Journal
March 14, 2024 - "Ira M. Millstein, Corporate Lawyer with Public Impact, Dies at 97", The New York Times
March 2, 2024 - "The Big Questions Raised by Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI", The New York Times
January 18, 2024 - "Crypto Showdown & Elon Musk Ultimatum", Bloomberg Law
December 1, 2023 - "Elon Musk Is Making a Giant Mistake...Unless?" The New York Times
October 25, 2023 - "Match.com Case Holds Potential to Upend Insider Deal Scrutiny," Bloomberg Law
July 26, 2023 - "Unbundling Climate Change Risk from ESG," CLS Blue Sky Blog
July 25, 2023 - "DeSantis Promoted the Bud Light Boycott. Now He's Mad It Worked," Washington Post
March 14, 2023 - "Behind the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse," Bloomberg Law Podcast
February 6, 2023 - "Staring Down Bankruptcy, Bed Bath & Beyond Says It Will Sell Stock"
November 14, 2022 - "The Illusion of Corporate Governance 'Best Practices'", Directors & Boards
October 4, 2022 - "Elon Musk Offers to End Legal Fight, Pay $44 Billion to Buy Twitter", PBS NewsHour
August 27, 2022 - "Short-sellers, Lawyers, and Academics Predict the Odds Elon Musk Will Be Forced to Close on a $44 Billion Deal He Hates", Fortune
July 15, 2022 - "Advantage Twitter in Lawsuit Against Elon Musk", Bloomberg Law
June 22, 2022 - "The Need for Engaged Governance During Existential Crises: The Case of Aerojet Rocketdyne", CLS Blue Sky Blog
May 5, 2022 - "The Twitter Board Bears Personal Responsibility for a Bad Outcome in the Twitter Sale", CLS Blue Sky Blog
April 28, 2022 - "Professor Eric Talley Honored with 2022 Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching", CLS
March 16, 2022 - "UK Law Firms Rethink Ageism," Financial Times
December 3, 2021 - "A Timeline of Corporate Governance From the FCPA to ESG," Directors & Boards
November 3, 2021 - "Law Firms with the Youngest Partners, and the Oldest," Reuters
October 31, 2021 - "Columbia Law Students Go On Location for the Time-Honored Brooklyn Bridge Hypothetical," New York Law Journal
September 23, 2021 - "In 70 Years at Weil, Antitrust Partner Millstein Has Seen Legal Business Transform," The American Lawyer
September 2, 2021 - "What is Apple Thinking?", New York Times (DealBook Newsletter)
September 1, 2021 - "Corporate Vote Suppression: A Counter-Response to Eric Robinson", CLS Blue Sky Blog
August 25, 2021 - "Insiders Trade in Outside Companies", Bloomberg Opinion (Money Stuff)
August 23, 2021 - "Stakeholder Capitalism Is Slowly Advancing", Wall Street Journal Opinion
August 23, 2021 - "NACD Announces 2021 Directorship 100 Honorees; Awards Celebrate "Most Influential" Directors and Governance Professionals", PR Newswire
August 19, 2021 - "Corporate Vote Suppression: The Anti-Activist Pill in The Williams Companies Stockholder Litigation", CLS Blue Sky Blog
August 19, 2021 - "The Board’s Role in ESG Oversight, According to Bill McNabb", Corporate Secretary
August 4, 2021 - "New York Law Journal Announces 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners", Law.com
August 3, 2021 - "Janet Foutty - 2020-2021 Most Powerful Women in Accounting", CPA Practice Advisor
June 8, 2021 - "No More 'Mystery Meat': Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data", ProMarket
March 22, 2021 - "Millstein Center at Columbia Law School Appoints Anne Robinson, Vanguard General Counsel, as Advisory Board Member"
March 5, 2021 - "Rupal Bhansali - Barron's 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance", Barron's
February 25, 2021 - "What Do the Data Reveal About (the Absence of Black) Financial Regulators?", CLS Blue Sky Blog
February 16, 2021 - "Millstein Center at Columbia Law School Appoints Ellen Odoner, Retired Partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, as Advisory Board Member"
December 18, 2020 - "The Road To Bankruptcy", NPR
December 8, 2020 - "A new partnership on workplace training is needed for good times and bad", Financial Times
December 7, 2020 - "Bank Error in Your Favor: Citi’s Fight to Reclaim $900 Million", Bloomberg
November 6, 2020 - "Columbia Law School Presents New Podcast Series, Beyond “Unprecedented”, CLS Blue Sky Blog
November 2, 2020 - "Toward Racial Equality: The Most Important Things the Business Community Can Do", CLS Blue Sky Blog
October 30, 2020 - "Columbia’s Millstein Center Presents Global Investor-Director Survey on Climate Risk Management", CLS Blue Sky Blog
October 28, 2020 - "Racial Diversity and Corporate Governance: Assessing California’s New Board Diversity Mandate", CLS Blue Sky Blog
October 27, 2020 - "The Role of Institutional Investor Regulation in Restoring a Fair, Sustainable Economy", CLS Blue Sky Blog
October 26, 2020 - "How ‘Big Is Bad’ Has Become a Big, Big Deal", Bloomberg Businessweek
October 23, 2020 - "Will the U.S. Break Up Google? (Podcast)", Bloomberg
October 15, 2020 - "Global Investors And Directors Respond To Climate Change", Markets Media
October 14, 2020 - "LGIM Unveils Climate Ratings for 1,000 Companies, Calls Out Laggards", Barron's
October 13, 2020 - "Global Investors Respond to Climate Change Issues", ValueWalk
October 13, 2020 - "The Results are in: Global Investors and Directors’ Response to Climate Change"
September 23, 2020 - "When RBG's 1980 nomination for the federal bench was in doubt, this Mamaroneck attorney got involved", The Journal News
September 21, 2020 - "How Can You Be an Ally? Go to a Black-Owned Bank", New York Times
September 14, 2020 - "Millstein Center at Columbia Law School Announces Appointment of New Board Members"
September 10, 2020 - "What Milton Friedman Missed About Social Inequality", New York Times DealBook
September 3, 2020 - "Former Black Franchisees Sue McDonald's", Bloomberg
August 20, 2020 - "Drinks With The Deal: Leo Strine Jr.", The Deal
July 23, 2020 - "The One Change That Could Save Your Neighborhood Stores", New York Times
July 22, 2020 - "Guggenheim’s Millstein Warns of Risk to U.S. Financial System", Bloomberg
July 9, 2020 - "Strine joins Millstein Center at Columbia Law School", Delaware State News
July 8, 2020 - "Ex-Del. Chief Justice Strine Joins Columbia, Penn Law", Law360
July 8, 2020 - "Former Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr. Joins Millstein Center at Columbia Law School"
April 20, 2020 - "Ira Millstein on Leadership During a Crisis", Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance Journal and CIO Journal
April 4, 2020 - "Is the Board to Blame?", Global Banking & Finance Review
April 2, 2020 - "Key 2008 Financial Crisis Players Are Back for Coronavirus", Bloomberg
May 27, 2020 - "Millstein Center Announces New Executive Director, Erica Mitnick Klein"
March 27, 2020 - "Guggenheim's Millstein Expects Restructurings to Mount Amid Virus", Bloomberg
March 26, 2020 - "Why CEOs are giving up their salaries during the coronavirus crisis", CNN Business
March 26, 2020 - "A “Majeure” Update on COVID-19 and MAEs", CLS Blue Sky Blog
March 24, 2020 - "Ex-Treasury official calls on US to buy into struggling companies", Financial Times
March 20, 2020 - "Facing Uncertainty, Law Firms Seek Credit, Brace for Less M&A", Law.com
March 19, 2020 - "Curing a Pandemic Could Make You Rich", Bloomberg Opinion
March 19, 2020 - "Coronavirus Is Becoming a “Majeure” Headache for Pending Corporate Deals", CLS Blue Sky Blog
February 14, 2020 - "The Results Are in: Global Investor-Director Survey on Climate Risk Management"
November 15, 2019 - "The Boardroom Sage Who Was Into Good Governance Before It Was Cool", Wall Street Journal
October 10, 2019 - "The Valuation and Governance Bubbles of Silicon Valley", CLS Blue Sky Blog
October 1, 2019 - "THE PURPOSE DEBATE Back to the ‘80s: Business Roundtable’s “Purpose” Statement Redux," Directors & Boards
August 21, 2019 - "Addressing Economic Insecurity: Why Social Insurance Is Better Than Corporate Governance Reform", CLS Blue Sky Blog
August 2, 2019 - "Long-Term Bias and Overconfident CEOs: What directors should know about keeping the top dog's cockiness in check", Directors & Boards
July 23, 2019 - "Can Lawyers Do More to Stop M&A Failures?", Law.com
June 10, 2019 - "Hudson's Bay chairman puts together $1.3 billion offer for retailer", Reuters
June 2, 2019 - "Republicans and Democrats Are Describing Two Different Constitutions", The Atlantic
May 2019 - "Applying Commonsense Principles 2.0", Ethical Boardroom
March 20, 2019 - "How the free market, and not Wall Street, can ensure more Americans share in prosperity", Washington Post
March 15, 2019 - "The Hidden Risk When You Own Stocks for the Long Run", Wall Street Journal
March 11, 2019 - "Millstein Center at Columbia Law School Appoints Bill McNabb, former CEO and Chair of Vanguard, as Advisory Board Member"
February 13, 2019 - "Want a Better Board? Look To Private Equity", Institutional Investor
January 16, 2019 - "Ira Millstein on The Activist Director - Why It's Needed Now More Than Ever!", Columbia University Press Blog
November 29, 2018 - "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Corporate Governance", NASDAQ
November 27, 2018 - "CAQ Issues Request for 2019 Audit Research Proposals", Accounting Today
November 14, 2018 - "Millstein Center at Columbia Law School Appoints Five New Board Members"
September 27, 2018 - "CAQ Holds Fourth Annual '#AuditorProud' Day", Accounting Today
September 18, 2018 - "Investors Trust Auditors, But Confidence in U.S.Markets Drops", Journal of Accountancy
September 18, 2018 - "Psychological Wage: Understanding Trump’s Support in Rural America", The Globe Post
September 14, 2018 - "Identifying the Building Blocks of the Next Financial Crisis", Bloomberg.
September 6, 2018 - "CBS Negotiating Moonves' Exit and Viacom Merger Standstill: Sources", U.S. News
August 14, 2018 - "Musk's plan to take Tesla private may be hurt by a bill just signed by Trump", Yahoo! Finance
June 13, 2018 - "Dodd Frank Rollbacks Are Behind Us; What's Ahead?", Nasdaq
April 18, 2018 - "The Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2017", Corporate Practice Commentator
April 3, 2018 - "America Rolls Out Its Libor Replacement (Audio)", Bloomberg
March 19, 2018 - "With the DOL Pushed Back, Spotlight Shifts to an Uncertain SEC", Financial Advisor IQ
March 16, 2018 - "Appeals Court Throws Out the DOL's Fiduciary Rule", Financial Advisor IQ
March 2, 2018 - "Weinstein Co. Asset Sale Averts Bankruptcy, but Clouds Remain Over Its Future", New York Law Journal
March 2, 2018 - "Stock market gyrations a reminder Wall Street banks need regulation", The Hill
February 22, 2017 - "The Sisyphean Task of Activating Boards of Directors", strategy+business
February 10, 2017 - "A Future President Drops In", The New York Times
January 31, 2017 - "Millstein: Trump needs an activist board", CNBC
January 31, 2017 - "Trump business agenda: Pro growth v. protectionist", CNBC
January 26, 2017 - "How Corporate America Can Survive These Uncertain Times", Fortune.com
January 18, 2017 - "Ira Millstein Goes Inside the Boardroom: The Activist Director", Bloomberg Markets AM with Pimm Fox and Lisa Abramowicz
January 12, 2017 - "In Conversation: Ira M. Millstein, Author of The Activist Director", C-Suite
December 29, 2016 - "Review — ‘The Activist Director’", The Financial Times
December 28, 2016 - "In Trump Era, Weil's Millstein Sees Promise for Corporate Governance", The American Lawyer
December 18, 2016 - "Ira Millstein, The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation", Valuewalk.com
December 16, 2016 - "A Closer Look With Arthur Levitt: Ira Millstein(Audio)", Bloomberg
December 9, 2016 - "Martin Lipton vs Ira Millstein On Activist Investing", Valuewalk.com
December 8, 2016 - "What’s Behind the Year of Corporate Scandals", Fortune.com
January 12, 2016 - "Promoting 'Proxy Access'", Columbia Law School
December 30, 2015 - "The cage-rattling strategy of Carl Icahn", NPR Marketplace
December 21, 2015 - "Hindering the S.E.C. From Shining a Light on Political Spending", New York Times DealBook
October 21, 2015 - "Treasury presses Congress to help Puerto Rico, but faces tough sell", Reuters
September 15, 2015 - "Insiders Beat Market Before Event Disclosure: Study", Wall Street Journal
September 15, 2015 - "Legal Insider Trading", Closing Bell, CNBC
August 5, 2015 - "Activist Investors Are Shaking Up Business Schools, Too", Wall Street Journal
May 22, 2015 - "Brief of 15 Professors of Law and Finance in MetLife v. FSOC"
Jan. 15, 2015 - "Statement of Thirty-Four Senior Corporate and Securities Law Professors Urging Commissioner Grundfest to Withdraw their Allegations Against Harvard and the SRP"
Jan. 5, 2015 - "An Unusual Boardroom Battle, in Academia" (DealBook)
Dec. 11, 2014 - "The SEC’s Holiday Gift to High-Speed Traders", by Prof. Robert Jackson and Joshua Mitts
Nov. 6, 2014 - "How the SEC Helps Speedy Traders", by Prof. Robert Jackson and Joshua Mitts
Nov. 4, 2014 - "SEC Raises Barrier to Disclosure of Information" (DealBook)
Nov. 3, 2014 - "Senators Urge SEC to Fix Unequal Access to Market Data" (Bloomberg)
Oct. 31, 2014 - "SEC Withholds Hedge-Fund Data Its Own Economist Used In Paper" (Forbes)
Oct. 28, 2014 - "Fast Traders are Fast Traders Are Getting Data From SEC Seconds Early" (Wall Street Journal)
Sept. 4, 2014 - "Activists Demand U.S. SEC Rule to Make Companies Reveal Political Spending"
July 2, 2014 - "Millstein Center Hosts International Forum on Capital Market Changes and Corporate Governance"
May 16, 2014 - "The Dalai Lama and Adam Smith," by Prof. Ira Millstein
March 14, 2014 - "Toward a Constitutional Review of the Poison Pill", by Prof. Robert Jackson and Lucien Bebchuk
Feb. 24, 2014 - "Too Big to Fail is Too Big to Ignore", by Prof. Ira Millstein
Feb. 19, 2014 - "The Hidden Nature of Executive Retirement Pay"
Feb. 2, 2014 - "Hidden Nature of Executive Retirement Pay", (Virginia Law Review Forthcoming) by Prof. Robert Jackson and Colleen Honigsberg
Sept. 11, 2013 - Ira Millstein's Speech at the 11th Annual Directors' Institute on Corporate Governance
July 26, 2013 - Millstein Center Hosts Wide-Ranging Discussion of Global Markets in Forum at Columbia Law School
July 16, 2013 - Ira Millstein's Speech to the Washington State Investment Board
July 3, 2013 - UD's Ferrere Named Among Top Rising Corporate Governance Professionals
June 26, 2013 - Hunton & Williams LLP's Steven Haas Selected Millstein Center 'Rising Star of Corporate Governance'
June 25, 2013 - Millstein Governance Forum: Debating Disclosure of Equity Ownership
June 24, 2013 - Millstein Center Names Rising Stars of Corporate Governance for 2013
June 18, 2013 - Millstein Governance Forum Debuts at Columbia Law School
June 13, 2013 - Governance Lessons from the Dimon Dust-Up, by Professor Ira M. Millstein
April 8, 2013 - Conscience, Incorporated by James Nelson (Millstein Center Postdoctoral Fellow)
March 8, 2013 - Re-Examining Board Priorities in an Era of Activism, by Professor Ira M. Millstein
Winter 2012 - Law School Launches New Center Focused on Global Markets
Dec. 18, 2012 - Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr. moderates a debate on the value of financial markets-and what role the government should play
July 27, 2012 - Law School Launches Three New Centers
July 16, 2012 - Professor Harvey Goldschmid ’65 and Ira Millstein ’49 Named to Newly Formed Systemic Risk Council

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