WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2003

7:30 - 9:00 a.m. at the UCSD Faculty Club (map)

"The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost: How Wall Street, The Big Accounting Firms and Corporate Interests Chloroformed Congress and Cost America's Investors Trillions"

The New Yorker Magazine says about Bill Lerach "... he has spent the last few decades suing corporate executives for lying to, cheating, and otherwise defrauding their shareholders, as probably the leading class-action lawyer in the country." Mr. Lerach has been involved with many of the largest and highest profile securities class action suits in recent years including Enron, Dynegy, Qwest, and WorldCom. The Nation has called him "America's top corporate crime fighter," while quoted in Fortune, John Doerr, the prominent venture capitalist, called Lerach "a cunning economic terrorist."

Mr. Lerach is a member of the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Committee on Class Actions and Derivative Skills, and the American Law Institute Faculty on Federal and State Class Action Litigation. He was appointed by President Clinton as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23rd, 2003

7:30 - 9:00 a.m. at the UCSD Faculty Club (map)

"The Federal Budget Crisis of 2020"

Alan Auerbach is the Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, UC Berkeley, and the Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance. After receiving his Ph.D. in economics Auerbach served as associate professor of economics at Harvard and professor of law and economics at University of Pennsylvania. He has served as research associate at the Nation Bureau of Economic Research and as the Deputy Chief of Staff on the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation.

The Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance is a collaboration between the law school and the Department of Economics, UC Berkeley. The Center was established in 1994 to depoliticize economic policy and to support the thoughtful analysis of tax policy issues.

Auerbach has authored numerous articles, books and reviews and is the past or present associate editor of six journals including "The Journal of Economic Literature" and "American Economic Review." In 1999 Auerbach was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23rd, 2003

7:30 - 9:00 a.m. at the UCSD Faculty Club (map)

"Challenges for Monetary Policy Entering the 21st Century"

Ben Bernanke took office on August 5th , 2002 as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2004.

Dr. Bernanke received his B.A. in economics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. is economics in 1979 from MIT. He is a macroeconomics with interest in business cycles and macroeconomic policy. Bernanke is the co-author of "Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience" and an editor of the American Economic Review. His research has focused on monetary policy, the role of financial markets in economic fluctuations, and the economics of the Great Depression.

Before becoming a member of the Board of Governors, Dr. Bernanke was Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the Chair for the Economics Department at Princeton University.