Brian G. Cartwright, General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission, addressed the Widener Law community and participants in the 20th annual Ruby R. Vale Interschool Corporate Moot Court Competition as the 2008 Distinguished Scholar. Cartwright?s lecture, entitled ?The Role of the States ? Foreign and Domestic?, dealt with the impact of globalization on how individual states and countries treat corporate law and governance.
The program opened with a general welcome from Vice Dean Russell Hakes, who then turned the program over to the Honorable Myron T. Steele, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware. Chief Justice Steele introduced Mr. Cartwright, calling him ?a leader in corporate governance.?