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

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

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

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

Pierre Yared, Associate Professor of Business

Columbia Business School
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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

Michael J. Graetz, Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax

Columbia Law School
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Richard Richman, Chairman and Founder

The Richman Group, Inc.

Jonah Rockoff, Associate Professor

Columbia Business School

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

Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Partner

Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, LLP
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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

Steven E. Fineman, Managing Partner

Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, LLP

Archis A. Parasharami, Partner

Mayer Brown LLP