3/15/02--Boston College Law School is pleased to announce that it will host a roundtable discussion on the Enron accounting scandal, titled "Professional Ethics: Lessons from Enron." The discussion will take place Friday, March 22, 2002, from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. in East Wing Room 200.

"The collapse of Enron has sparked a significant public debate concerning institutional checks on corporate behavior," said BC Law Professor Judy McMorrow, who will participate in the discussion. "Business, accounting and legal professionals were involved throughout the planning, financing and public disclosure activities of Enron. Our discussion will draw on publicly available information to analyze the professional ethics issues raised by Enron."

Presenters will offer a 10 minute summary of their ideas, leaving ample time for full group discussion.

Presenters
Lawrence A. Cunningham, The Deal-Maker Lawyer
Professor, Boston College Law School
Author of How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett (McGraw-Hill 2001)

Scott T. FitzGibbon, Was Enron a Human Community?
Professor, Boston College Law School
Author of FitzGibbon and Glazer on Legal Opinions: What Opinions in Financial Transactions Say and What They Mean (Little, Brown, 1992)

Judith A. McMorrow, Seduction
Professor, Boston College Law School
Author of McMorrow and Coquillette, The Federal Law of Attorney Conduct (Matthew-Bender 2001)

Sandra Waddock, The Integrity Gap
Professor, Boston College Carroll School of Management
Author of Leading Corporate Citizens: Vision, Values, Value Added (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002)

Todd J. Zywicki, Emerging Issues in Bankruptcy Ethics: Trustees, DIPs, & CROs
Visiting Professor, Boston College Law School
Author of "Bankruptcy Law As Social Legislation," Tex. Rev. L & Politics (2001).

Commentators:
Jeffrey R. Cohen
Professor, Carroll School of Management
Researches & publishes in Accounting Ethics and Corporate Governance

Richard P. Nielsen
Professor, Boston College Carroll School of Management
Author of The Politics of Ethics: Methods for Acting, Learning, and Sometimes Fighting with Others in Addressing Ethics Problems in Organizational Life (Oxford University Press 1995)

James R. Repetti
Professor, BC Law
Author of the International Guide to Partnerships-United States (Kees van Raad and Michael van Dun, Editors, 2001)

Hon. Herbert Wilkins
Former Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Visiting Professor, Boston College Law School

For more information, please contact Judy McMorrow at mcmorrow@bc.edu, or (617) 552-3578.