Securities Law Prof Blog

New Securities Law Articles in Print

The following law review articles relating to securities regulation are now available in paper format:

John P. Anderson, Jeremy L. Kidd & George A. Mocsary, Public Perceptions of Insider Trading, 51 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1035 (2021).

Ryan Brady & John Reid, Casenote, Protecting the Throne: The Third Circuit's Decision to Preserve Sovereign Immunity in Gentile v. SEC, 66 Vill. L. Rev. 783 (2021).

Max Chaffetz, Note, Disentangling Conflict and Minerals: How NGOs and Lawmakers Ought to Rebrand Their Flawed Narrative of Eastern Congo, 62 Va. J. Int'l L. 203 (2021).

Andrew J. Meyer, Note, Insider Trading under Sarbanes-Oxley: Bypassing the Personal Benefit Test, 86 Mo. L. Rev. 951 (2021).

New Securities Law Articles in Print

The following law review articles relating to securities regulation are now available in paper format:

Sylvia Lu, Algorithmic Opacity, Private Accountability, and Corporate Social Disclosure in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 23 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 99 (2020).

Alon Sugarman, Note, Grown from the Shadows: How Technology and Taxes Can Bring Private Companies into the Public Light, 23 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 189 (2020).

Call for Papers: Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop

Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop: Call for Papers

The University of Illinois College of Law, in partnership with UCLA School of Law, University of Richmond School of Law, and Vanderbilt Law School, invites submissions for the Ninth Annual Workshop for Corporate & Securities Litigation. This workshop will be held on Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois.

Overview

This annual workshop brings together scholars focused on corporate and securities litigation to present their scholarly works. Papers addressing any aspect of corporate and securities litigation or enforcement are eligible, including securities class actions, fiduciary duty litigation, and SEC enforcement actions. We welcome scholars working in a variety of methodologies, as well as both completed papers and works-in-progress.

Authors whose papers are selected will be invited to present their work at a workshop hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law. Participants will pay for their own travel, lodging, and other expenses.

Submissions

If you are interested in participating, please send the paper you would like to present or an abstract of the paper to corpandsecworkshop@gmail.com by Friday, May 13, 2022. Please include your name, current position, and contact information in the e-mail accompanying the submission. Authors of accepted papers will be notified in June.

Questions

Any questions concerning the workshop should be directed to the organizers: Verity Winship (vwinship@illinois.edu), Jessica Erickson (jerickso@richmond.edu), Jim Park (James.park@law.ucla.edu), and Amanda Rose (amanda.rose@vanderbilt.edu).

New Securities Law Articles in Print

The following law review articles relating to securities regulation are now available in paper format:

Samantha L. Bailey & Christopher J. Ryan Jr., The next "Big Short": COVID-19, Student Loan Discharge in Bankruptcy, and the SLABS Market, 73 SMU L. Rev. 809 (2020).

Bernard S. Sharfman, The Risks and Rewards of Shareholder Voting, 73 SMU L. Rev. 849 (2020).

New Securities Law Articles in Print

The following law review articles relating to securities regulation are now available in paper format:

Barnali Choudhury, Climate Change as Systemic Risk, 18 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 52 (2021).

Justin Hicks, Comment, Commanding Transparency: The Emerging Frontier of SEC-Mandated Climate Risk Disclosures, 58 Hous. L. Rev. 211 (2020).

Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Lending Innovations, 86 Brook. L. Rev. 135 (2020).

James D. Redwood, Back from the Brink: The Supreme Court Saves the SEC's Rule 10b-5 from the Grim Reaper, 89 UMKC L. Rev. 57 (2020).