讲座题目: “对冲基金，投资者、管理者和律师”（Hedge Funds and Their Investors, Regulators and Lawyers）

讲座嘉宾:  塔康顾问公司总顾问Carol F. Lee女士

讲座时间: 6月5日下午4:30pm-5:30pm

讲座地点: C303

CAROL F. LEE

Carol F. Lee is general counsel of Taconic Capital Advisors, an SEC-registered investment advisor based in New York City that manages eight private investment funds, with total assets under management of approximately $7.5 billion. She has previously practiced law at a major law firm, at a federal government agency, and at an intergovernmental organization.  From 1983 to 1993, she was an associate and then a partner at Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering in Washington, D.C.  Her practice included international corporate transactions and joint ventures, Supreme Court and appellate litigation, international aviation regulation, and campaign finance law.  From 1993 to 1995, she was general counsel of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the U.S. government export credit agency.  She was a member of the senior management team, chief legal officer, and manager of 20 staff attorneys.  From 1995 to 2002, she was vice president and general counsel of the International Finance Corporation, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group.  She was a member of the Management Group, chief legal officer, and head of a department of 55 lawyers from more than a dozen countries.  She is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and the state of New York.

Ms. Lee graduated from Yale College, B.A. 1976 (history), summa cum laude; Oxford University, B.A. 1978 (philosophy, politics and economics), First Class Honours; and Yale Law School, J.D. 1981, where she was an Article and Book Review Editor of the Yale Law Journal.  She clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court.

She was a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School in 1989, 1990, and 1992, teaching a course on comparative federalism in the European Community and the United States.  She taught the same subject as a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School in 1991.  From 2002 through 2006, she was an independent legal historian.  Together with her husband, Professor David J. Seipp of Boston University School of Law, she translated and edited the Year Books (medieval English law reports) for an on-line database sponsored by the Ames Foundation at Harvard Law School.  She is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Society for Legal History.