GREEK POLITICAL DELEGATION SYRIZA AT COLUMBIA U JAN 24 TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF GREECE AND EUROZONE

commentary by Roger Erickson On January 24 2013, Columbia Law School will host an evening with top political leadership from SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) Greece's dominant opposition party and anticipated director of their next government, to discuss challenges facing Greece and the Eurozone and SYRIZA's vision for economic and financial reform. The evening will feature Alexis Tsipras, leader of SYRIZA and also Leader of the Greek Opposition coalition, on SYRIZA's plans for national governance, as well as panels on financial reform and macroeconomic recovery with Rena Dourou, MP and Opposition Critic for Foreign Relations and European Issues, George Stathakis, Greek MP and Opposition Critic for the Economy, and Yiannis Milios, senior Economic Advisor to SYRIZA. Other panelists include Katharina Pistor, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; Mathew Forstater, Professor of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Thomas Ferguson, Professor of Political Science, Univ. Masachusetts-Amherst; Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research; Helen Ginsburg, Professor Emerita of Economics, City University of New York; and Rania Antonopoulos, Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. The event is part of the Workers' Rights Student Coalition's Modern Money and Public Purpose series, and is cosponsored by the Columbia Hellenic Assocation, the Levy Economics Institute, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Center for Global Legal Transformation, and the Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy. It will take place Jan 24 at 6.00pm in Room 104, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 West 116th Street, New York. Modern Money and Public Purpose is an interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012-2013 academic year. The series aims to present new perspectives and progressive policy proposals on a range of contemporary issues facing the U.S. and global macroeconomy. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT WWW.MODERNMONEYANDPUBLICPURPOSE.COM FOR PRESS REGISTRATION, CONTACT ROHAN GREY.