best and brightest relations will be discussed by dan whittle in the field of environmental cooperation, and by christine farley who's present at oral argument in the supreme court will talk about best relations in the field of intellectual property protection and the current instrument that governs intellectual property protections is the 1929 interamerican convention, so we're in need of an overall there, since that document was ratified, we have cyber issues, domain names, a number of intellectual issues that are going to require new arrangements with cuba. so we'll start with mark feldman, and he's going to provide shape to the constitutional legal dimension of presidential power to normalize relations with cuba. i'm not going to the do biographic introductions, you'll find that in the rear. but sufficient to say that mark was for some time our chief lawyer in the international affairs realm as acts legal advisor of the state department. he will be followed by jake colvin who's going to talk a little bit about trade, baseline trade and maybe a little bit further. matthew otto will d

that's likely to whittle away at parts of dodd-frank. dan most likely change to the law, raising the size threshold for large banks subject to the heaviest regulatory burden. >> i think we'll see peelback on dodd frank and unity will be around maybe raising the requirement what is a systemically important bank in the u.s. the $50 billion may go to $100 billion. >> even if a smaller number of banks are deemed important, ryan says it's unlikely to reduce the anti-bank rhetoric from certain law makers most notably democratic senator elizabeth warren. >> she is the most vocal of the anti-wall street anti-bank crowd. she is both one trying to preserve dodd-frank from the democratic side but also she is potentially a presidential candidate. >> quite a platform. 10% dodd-frank remains to be written. in the new year watch for new rules including the final one on additional buffers. limit on exposure to other banks and minimal long term debt requirement for big banks. all this rule making made the big banks safer, but potentially less attractive inve