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The Third Annual Albert A. Destefano Lecture On Corporate Securities & Financial Law, Kenneth M. Rosen, William Michael Treanor, Jill E. Fisch, Brandon Becker, Robert Colby, Richard Ketchum, Andrew Klein, Catherine Mcguire, Annette Nazareth, Lee A. Pickard Jan 2004

The Third Annual Albert A. Destefano Lecture On Corporate Securities & Financial Law, Kenneth M. Rosen, William Michael Treanor, Jill E. Fisch, Brandon Becker, Robert Colby, Richard Ketchum, Andrew Klein, Catherine Mcguire, Annette Nazareth, Lee A. Pickard

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


The Litigation Financing Industry: The Wild West Of Finance Should Be Tamed Not Outlawed, Susan Lorde Martin Jan 2004

The Litigation Financing Industry: The Wild West Of Finance Should Be Tamed Not Outlawed, Susan Lorde Martin

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

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Law's Signal: A Cueing Theory Of Law In Market Transition, Robert B. Ahdieh Jan 2004

Law's Signal: A Cueing Theory Of Law In Market Transition, Robert B. Ahdieh

Faculty Scholarship

Securities markets are commonly assumed to spring forth at the intersection of an adequate supply of, and a healthy demand for, investment capital. In recent years, however, seemingly failed market transitions - the failure of new markets to emerge and of existing markets to evolve - have called this assumption into question. From the developed economies of Germany and Japan to the developing countries of central and eastern Europe, securities markets have exhibited some inability to take root. The failure of U.S. securities markets, and particularly the New York Stock Exchange, to make greater use of computerized trading, communications, and …


Seeking Truth For Power: Informational Strategy And Regulatory Policymaking, Cary Coglianese, Richard Zeckhauser, Edward A. Parson Jan 2004

Seeking Truth For Power: Informational Strategy And Regulatory Policymaking, Cary Coglianese, Richard Zeckhauser, Edward A. Parson

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Information is the lifeblood of regulatory policy. The effective use of governmental power depends on information about conditions in the world, strategies for improving those conditions, and the consequences associated with deploying different strategies. Indeed, this need for information has led legislatures to create specialized committee structures, delegate policy authority to expert agencies, and develop administrative procedures that encourage analysis. Although legal scholars have extensively debated procedures and reforms designed to improve the analytic and scientific basis of regulatory policymaking, they have paid relatively little attention to how regulators gain the information they need for making and implementing regulatory policy. …


Tender Offers By Controlling Shareholders: The Specter Of Coercion And Fair Price, Adam C. Pritchard Jan 2004

Tender Offers By Controlling Shareholders: The Specter Of Coercion And Fair Price, Adam C. Pritchard

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Taking your company private has never been so appealing. The collapse of the tech bubble has left many companies whose stock prices bordered on the stratospheric now trading at small fractions of their historical highs. The spate of accounting scandals that followed the bursting of the bubble has taken some of the shine off the aura of being a public company-the glare of the spotlight from stock analysts and the business press looks much less inviting, notwithstanding the monitoring benefits that the spotlight purports to confer. Moreover, the regulatory backlash against those accounting scandals has made the costs of being …


Securities Law: Proxies Pull Mutual Funds Into The Sunlight: Mandatory Disclosure Of Proxy Voting Records, H. Anne Nicholson Jan 2004

Securities Law: Proxies Pull Mutual Funds Into The Sunlight: Mandatory Disclosure Of Proxy Voting Records, H. Anne Nicholson

Oklahoma Law Review

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