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MULTIMEDIA
WEBINARS
Political Spending, Say on Pay, and Other Key Issues to Watch in the 2013 Proxy
Season
James Copland participated in a webinar moderated by
Brian Cartwright.
View the presentation
Corporate Spending Disclosure
James Copland participated in a webinar moderated
by Paul Atkins, former SEC Commissioner (2002-2008). Other participants included: Brian Cartwright, Andrew Pincus, and William Walton.
[PART I] [ PART II]
VIDEOS
 WSJ's "Opinion Journal with Mary Kissel" interviewed James Copland
March 11, 2013
 Shareholder Activism
MI Senior Fellow, James Copland, discusses shareholder activism trends with President of AIS Futures Management, John Hummel, on Bloomberg TV's "Taking Stock With Pimm Fox."
March 1, 2013
EVENTS
New York City | September 12, 2012
 INTRODUCTION
James Copland, Director, Center for Legal Policy
VIDEO
 PANEL1
Douglas K. Chia, Assistant General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Johnson & Johnson;
James Copland, Director, Center for Legal Policy;
David F. Larcker, James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting, Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University; Professor, Stanford Law School;
Chris Young, Managing Director & Head of Contested Situations, Credit Suisse;
Former Director, M&A & Proxy Fight Research, Institutional Shareholder Services
Moderator: T.K. Kerstetter, President, Corporate Board Member; Producer & Co-Host, This Week in the Boardroom
VIDEO
 PANEL2
Paul Atkins, Founder & CEO, Patomak Global Partners; Former Commissioner, Securities & Exchange Commission
Harvey Pitt, Former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Chief Executive Officer, Kalomara Partners, LLC
Moderator: David Asman, News Anchor, Fox Business Network & Fox News Channel
VIDEO
New York City | September 21, 2011
 Proxy
Monitor 2011: A Report on Shareholder Activism and Corporate Governance
Speakers: James Copland, William Allen, Stephen Brown, Shelley Dropkin, John
Siemann, Lori Zyskowski September 21, 2011
VIDEO
PODCASTS
October 8, 2012
Corporate Governance: James Copland and Collin Levy, senior
editorial page writer at the Wall Street Journal, discuss findings from
"Proxy Monitor 2012: A Report on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism."
Listen to their discussion.
July 12, 2012
Corporate Governance: Isaac Gorodetski, project manager of the
Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy interviews the Center's director,
James Copland, about his latest Proxy Monitor report and shareholder activism
trends from the 2012 proxy season.
Listen to their discussion.
June 18, 2012
Corporate Goverance: James Copland interviews Robert Shapiro on his
new paper, "Corporate Political Spending: Why the New Critics Are Wrong".
Listen to their discussion.
PROXY MONITOR 2011: In conjunction with the release of
Proxy Monitor 2011: A Report on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism,
James Copland speaks with Harvey Pitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, about shareholder proposal trends over the last four years and how the
SEC has changed since Dodd-Frank.
Listen to their discussion.
Industry Trends: Howard Husock interviews James Copland about labor
unions' use of shareholder proposals to target nontraditional industries like retail
and financial services.
Listen to their discussion.
Political Spending: Shareholders want corporations to disclose
their political campaign contributions, even though under Citizens United,
the Supreme Court ruled corporate political expenditures are speech protected by
the First Amendment. James Copland and Howard Husock analyze this trend in shareholder
activity. Listen to their discussion.
Corporate Governance: Labor unions and individual activists are
making serious efforts to alter the corporate governance structure of corporations,
particularly in separating the role of chairman and CEO and supporting proposals
for chairman independence. Howard Husock interview James Copland.
Listen to their discussion.
Executive Compensation: Howard Husock interviews James Copland
about executive compensation and union sway over the proxy ballot process. Listen to their discussion.
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