Global Justice Forum 2014: Income Inequality

 The 2014 Global Justice Forum was held October 17, 2014 in New York City. This year's theme, Income Inequality, brought together academics and practitioners, who discussed the various challenges and possible solutions to income inequality in this country.

 

Keynote Speakers

Columbia Business School

Diogo de Sant'Ana

Vice-Minister
General-Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil
Columbia Business School

Kenneth R. Feinberg

Founder, Managing Partner
Feinberg Rozen, LLP
Columbia Business School

Alan B. Krueger

Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Former Chairman
White House Council of Economics Advisers

Panel I: Economic Forces Behind Rising Inequality

Columbia Business School
Panel Photos
 

  • Richard Burkhauser, Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor Policy Analysis

Cornell University

 

  • Andrew L. Stern, Senior Fellow

Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy
Columbia University
Abstract
 

Panel II: Perspective on Economic Policy: Housing, Education, Labor Markets

Columbia Law School
Panel Photos
 

The Richman Group, Inc.
 

Columbia Business School

Panel III: Judicial and Regulatory Policy: Consumer and Employment Contracts, Access to Courts and Arbitration

Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, LLP
Panel Photos
 

  • Hon. Jed S. Rakoff, US District Judge for the Southern District of New York

Adjunct Professor
Columbia Law School 

 

  • Avery W. Katz, Milton Handler Professor of Law and Vice Dean

Columbia Law School 

 

  • F. Paul Bland, Jr., Executive Director

Public Justice

 

Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, LLP

 

  • Archis A. Parasharami, Partner

Mayer Brown LLP