Crystal Kornegay
Kornegay, CEO of MassHousing, was the keynoter at the Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights’ annual conference. In line with the program’s themes, she spoke about housing accessibility and systemic barriers to homeownership. Kornegay addressed inequities built into the housing system through racially restrictive covenants, deed construction, and wealth gaps.
Sven Beckert
Beckert, a Harvard history professor, spoke on his new book Capitalism: A Global History. It argues that capitalism emerged not just from Western innovation, but from centuries of interconnected trade, state coercion, and exploitation. His other publications have focused on the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, labor, democracy, global history, and connections between slavery and capitalism.
Anthony Amore
Amore, an art theft expert, investigator, and security practitioner, spoke to members of two student groups, the Art Law Society and Criminal Law Society. He is the director of security and chief investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where he is charged with the ongoing efforts to recover 13 works of art stolen during an infamous heist there in 1990.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe, presented at the Legal History Roundtable on her current book project, a historical memoir on interracial family and kinship relationships, and law’s regulation of them before and after the Civil War. She has written extensively on constitutional law and has received the Order of the Coif Book Award and the Bancroft Prize in American History.
Cathy Hwang
Hwang presented her scholarship on “Weapons of Corporate Warfare” at the Regulation & Markets Workshop. A professor at the University of Virginia Law School, Hwang was previously an appointed research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and has written numerous corporate and securities articles voted among the top 10 of the year by business law professors.