Call for Papers: CORPORATE BOARDS: MANAGERS OF RISK; SOURCES OF RISK

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

        "CORPORATE BOARDS: MANAGERS OF RISK; SOURCES OF RISK"

              ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RISK MANAGEMENT AND
                         CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

                           Conducted by:
              Center for Integrated Risk Management and
                       Corporate Governance,
                     Loyola University Chicago

                         April 16-17, 2008


     We seek academically oriented, high quality studies of
     issues related to any aspect of corporate boards as
     creators and managers of risk. All disciplines are welcome
     to participate as we seek to create a multi-disciplinary
     perspective on this timely topic. We are especially
     interested in attracting contributions from finance,
     economics, management, law, business ethics, psychology and
     sociology. Corporate charters give boards an important role
     in managing risk, but recent events have also shown that
     corporate boards and their members can be creators and
     sources of risk as well.


     TOPICS:

     This conference seeks to contribute to the study of the
     relationship between boards and risk in its full
     complexity. Likely topics might include, but are not in any
     way limited to: the role of corporate boards in overseeing
     increasingly complex risk management techniques; accurately
     communicating the risk exposure of the firm to board
     members; how corporate boards determine the firm's appetite
     for risk; managing corporate boards to control the risk
     that their activities impose on the firm and on society;
     the ethical dimensions of corporate board behavior
     in managing risk and imposing risk on the firm's various
     stakeholders.

     The papers must be in English and an ideal length is 20-25
     pages. Papers presented at the conference will be published
     in our monograph series: the Loyola Series in Risk
     Management and Corporate Governance published as an annual
     monograph by Blackwell Publishers. Travel grants and
     honoraria will be available for paper presenters. There is
     also a $5,000 cash award to the author of the best paper
     presented at the conference.


     SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

     Please submit a two-page abstract by December 15, 2007
     and final papers no later than February 15, 2008 via e-mail
     to:

     Email:         MAILTO:rkolb@luc.edu
     Contact:       Robert W. Kolb
                    Professor of Finance
                    Considine Chair of Applied Ethics
                    School of Business
                    Loyola University Chicago
                    Chicago, IL 60611

     Please see our Web site for additional details:

                    http://www.LUC.edu/risk
Posted 12/9/07