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Full-Text Articles in Securities Law
What Google Can't Teach Us About Ipo Auctions (And What It Can), A. Christine Hurt
What Google Can't Teach Us About Ipo Auctions (And What It Can), A. Christine Hurt
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Regulating Public Morals And Private Markets: Online Securities Trading, Internet Gambling And The Speculation Paradox, A. Christine Hurt
Regulating Public Morals And Private Markets: Online Securities Trading, Internet Gambling And The Speculation Paradox, A. Christine Hurt
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Give Me Equity Or Give Me Death - The Role Of Competition And Compensation In Building Silicon Valley, Richard A. Booth
Give Me Equity Or Give Me Death - The Role Of Competition And Compensation In Building Silicon Valley, Richard A. Booth
Working Paper Series
In this essay, I argue that the preeminence of Silicon Valley as an incubator of technology companies is attributable to equity compensation. Ronald Gilson, relying on the work of AnnaLee Saxenian and others who have noted the tendency of Silicon Valley employees to job hop, has suggested that California law prohibiting the enforcement of non-compete agreements was a major factor in the rise of Silicon Valley (and the demise of Route 128). I extend this line of thought by suggesting that California employers may have relied on equity compensation as a substitute way to bind employees. I argue further that …
Materiality And Social Change: The Case For Replacing "The Reasonable Investor" With "The Least Sophisticated Investor" In Inefficient Markets, Margaret V. Sachs
Materiality And Social Change: The Case For Replacing "The Reasonable Investor" With "The Least Sophisticated Investor" In Inefficient Markets, Margaret V. Sachs
Scholarly Works
The current materiality standard for federal securities fraud is a mid-twentieth-century construct that fails to accommodate certain twenty-first century realities. This Article argues that its reach should be restricted to preserve it for the many circumstances in which it continues to function well.
The current standard measures materiality from the standpoint of "the reasonable investor," a savvy person who grasps market fundamentals. This standard has a fatal flaw: its inability to protect unsophisticated investors who are duped by implausible falsehoods in inefficient markets. This flaw can no longer be ignored given Internet and telemarketing securities fraud and its many unsophisticated, …
Ex Ante Choices Of Law And Forum: An Empirical Analysis Of Corporate Merger Agreements, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller
Ex Ante Choices Of Law And Forum: An Empirical Analysis Of Corporate Merger Agreements, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Legal scholars have focused much attention on the incorporation puzzle—why business corporations so heavily favor Delaware as the site of incorporation. This paper suggests that the focus on the incorporation decision overlooks a broader but intimately related set of questions. The choice of Delaware as a situs of incorporation is, effectively, a choice of law decision. A company electing to charter in Delaware selects Delaware law (and authorizes Delaware courts to adjudicate legal disputes) regarding the allocation of governance authority within the firm. In this sense, the incorporation decision is fundamentally similar to any setting in which a company selects …
Developing Governance And Regulation For Emerging Capital And Securities Markets, Ali A. Ibrahim
Developing Governance And Regulation For Emerging Capital And Securities Markets, Ali A. Ibrahim
Georgetown Law Graduate Paper Series
No abstract provided.
Insurance Against Misinformation In The Securities Market, Tom Baker
Insurance Against Misinformation In The Securities Market, Tom Baker
All Faculty Scholarship
Prepared at the request of the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada, this study describes and evaluates evaluate a new capital markets insurance concept: securities misinformation insurance. This new insurance would compensate investors for losses caused by securities law violations. The most powerful objection to this new concept is that investors do not need a new insurance program for securities misinformation losses. Individual and institutional investors already can spread securities misinformation losses by holding a diversified portfolio. Nevertheless, a securities misinformation insurance program has the potential to provide systemic benefits: improved compliance with securities laws (resulting from cost …
Dialectical Regulation, Robert B. Ahdieh
Dialectical Regulation, Robert B. Ahdieh
Faculty Scholarship
While theories of regulation abound, woefully inadequate attention has been given to growing patterns of "intersystemic" and "dialectical" regulation in the world today. In this rapidly expanding universe of interactions, independent regulatory agencies, born of autonomous jurisdictions, nonetheless face a combination of jurisdictional overlap with, and regulatory dependence on, one another. Here, the cross-jurisdictional interaction of regulators is no longer the voluntary interaction embraced by transnationalists; it is, instead, an unavoidable reality of acknowledgement and engagement, potentially culminating in the integration of discrete sets of regulatory rules into a collective whole.
Such patterns of regulatory engagement are increasingly evident, across …
Convergence Of Corporate Governance And Islamic Financial Services Industry: Toward Islamic Financial Services Securities Market, Ali A. Ibrahim
Convergence Of Corporate Governance And Islamic Financial Services Industry: Toward Islamic Financial Services Securities Market, Ali A. Ibrahim
Georgetown Law Graduate Paper Series
This paper briefly discusses the significance of corporate governance for the Islamic financial services industry. Furthermore, it predicts that the Islamic financial services industry is likely to converge to modern governance practices. The paper also argues that the industry needs to have a homogenous and specialized regional securities market to realize its true potential.
Measuring Efficiency In Corporate Law: The Role Of Shareholder Primacy, Jill E. Fisch
Measuring Efficiency In Corporate Law: The Role Of Shareholder Primacy, Jill E. Fisch
All Faculty Scholarship
The shareholder primacy norm defines the objective of the corporation as maximization of shareholder wealth. Law and economics scholars have incorporated the shareholder primacy norm into their empirical analyses of regulatory efficiency. An increasingly influential body of scholarship uses empirical methodology to evaluate legal rules that allocate power within the corporation. By embracing the shareholder primacy norm, empirical scholars offer normative assessments about regulatory choices based on the effect of legal rules on measures of shareholder value such as stock price, net profits, and Tobin’s Q.
This Article challenges the foundations of using the shareholder primacy norm to judge corporate …
Using Spread And Net Trading Range To Measure Risk In Suitability Cases, Richard A. Booth
Using Spread And Net Trading Range To Measure Risk In Suitability Cases, Richard A. Booth
Working Paper Series
Suitability is one of the most common issues that arises in securities arbitrations. Yet it is also one of the most difficult issues to resolve. Up to now there has been no easy and reliable way to compare the risk of one stock or portfolio with another stock or portfolio measured as of the time the investment decision in question was made. As I argued in an earlier article, spread is potentially a promising way to measure risk in real time as perceived collectively by competing market makers. But with the advent of decimal quotes and other recent changes in …
Ain't No Glory In Pain': How The 1994 Republican Revolution And The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Contributed To The Collapse Of The United States Capital Markets, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Ain't No Glory In Pain': How The 1994 Republican Revolution And The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Contributed To The Collapse Of The United States Capital Markets, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Faculty Scholarship
Ain't No Glory In Pain recalls the deregulatory legislation adopted by the 104th Congress in 1995 and 1996, including the shareholder lawsuit limiting Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) and connects several of those measures with the historic corporate malfeasance that marked the capital market collapse of 2001-02. I propose, in the face of recent calls for further efforts to deregulate crucial industries and further hamstring shareholder lawsuits, that Congress and the SEC work together to reject certain provisions of the PSLRA and act in ways to ensure investor protection in this post-Enron/WorldCom environment.
Compensating Power: An Analysis Of Rents And Rewards In The Mutual Fund Industry, William A. Birdthistle
Compensating Power: An Analysis Of Rents And Rewards In The Mutual Fund Industry, William A. Birdthistle
All Faculty Scholarship
The allegations of malfeasance in the investment management industry - market timing, late trading, revenue sharing, and several others - involve a broad range of mutual fund operations. This Article seeks to explain the common source of these irregularities by focusing upon a trait they share: the practice of investment advisers' capitalizing upon their managerial influence to increase assets under management in order to generate greater fees from those assets. This Article extends theories of executive compensation into the context of investment management to understand the extraction of rents by mutual fund advisers. Investment advisers, as collective groups of portfolio …
Tattlers And Trail Blazers: Attorneys' Liability For Clients' Fraud, Barbara Black
Tattlers And Trail Blazers: Attorneys' Liability For Clients' Fraud, Barbara Black
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
No abstract provided.
From Sec Enforcement Attorney To Commissioner, Roberta S. Karmel
From Sec Enforcement Attorney To Commissioner, Roberta S. Karmel
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Regulation A: Small Businesses’ Search For “A Moderate Capital”, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr.
Regulation A: Small Businesses’ Search For “A Moderate Capital”, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr.
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Small businesses are an important part of our national economy, accounting for as much as 40% of our total economic activity and providing society with important services and products.
Small businesses face daunting economic, structural, and legal impediments when they attempt to acquire external capital. The absence of financial inter-mediation services means that they are almost always on their own to find investors. Their small capital needs mean that their relative offering costs are often sky high. Federal and state securities rules significantly exacerbate these economic and structural disadvantages by imposing onerous and unwarranted conditions on their search for external …
Overvalued Equity And The Case For An Asymmetric Insider Trading Regime, Thom Lambert
Overvalued Equity And The Case For An Asymmetric Insider Trading Regime, Thom Lambert
Faculty Publications
This article argues for an asymmetric insider trading policy under which insider trading that decreases the price of an overvalued stock is generally permitted, but insider trading that increases the price of an undervalued stock is generally prohibited. Concluding that the net investor benefits of price-decreasing insider trading exceed those of price-enhancing insider trading, the article argues that an asymmetric insider trading regime likely represents the bargain that shareholders and corporate managers would strike if they were legally and practically able to negotiate an insider trading policy. Current insider trading doctrine would permit regulators to impose such an asymmetric insider …
Europe's Thirteenth Directive And U.S. Takeover Regulation: Regulatory Means And Political Economic Ends, Marco Ventoruzzo
Europe's Thirteenth Directive And U.S. Takeover Regulation: Regulatory Means And Political Economic Ends, Marco Ventoruzzo
Journal Articles
Cross-border acquisitions, especially through hostile takeovers, represent one of the most dramatic consequences of the growing integration, both within Europe, and when considering the economic balance of power between the US and the European industries. This Article focuses on the single most important piece of legislation on European takeover law, the Thirteenth Directive of the European Union on Takeover Regulation, which was approved on April, 21 2004 and must be implemented by Member States before the end of 2006.
Passage of the Thirteenth Directive is no minor event. Earlier versions were embroiled in arresting political controversies that generated significant Member …
Bringing Coherence To Mens Rea Analysis For Securities-Related Offenses, Michael L. Seigel
Bringing Coherence To Mens Rea Analysis For Securities-Related Offenses, Michael L. Seigel
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article has demonstrated that the failure of commentators and the courts to tackle mens rea analysis head-on has resulted in lasting incoherence in the law. Unintelligible legal doctrine does not simply upset individuals who strive for elegant solutions to legal problems; it also exacts a huge, real-life toll. Juries faced with incoherent legal instructions are likely to become disillusioned about the justice system. Citizens receive inadequate guidance as to acceptable and unacceptable behavior, hampering deterrence -- particularly in the securities-law arena, where one presumably finds mostly rational actors who would be deterred by clear legal rules. Securities regulation is …
The Supreme Court’S Decisions In Arthur Andersen And Dura Pharmaceuticals, Charles W. Murdock
The Supreme Court’S Decisions In Arthur Andersen And Dura Pharmaceuticals, Charles W. Murdock
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Nationalizing Ethical Standards For Securities Lawyers., Michael J. Kaufman
Nationalizing Ethical Standards For Securities Lawyers., Michael J. Kaufman
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
When Does The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act Of 1998 Preempt State Law Claims?, Steven A. Ramirez
When Does The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act Of 1998 Preempt State Law Claims?, Steven A. Ramirez
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Explained Award Of Damocles: Protection Or Peril In Securities Arbitration, Jill I. Gross
The Explained Award Of Damocles: Protection Or Peril In Securities Arbitration, Jill I. Gross
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
NASD's proposed rule change requiring arbitrators to provide written explanations in arbitration awards upon the customers' request (the “explained award proposal”), which was published for public comment in July 2005, is the clearest example of NASD's proposing a rule change in response to investors' complaints. “We have found that investors want to know more about how a panel reaches its decision,” stated NASD Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert R. Glauber in announcing the explained award proposal. “By giving investors the option of requiring a written explanation of an arbitration panel's decision, we will increase investor confidence in the fairness …
Rethinking Enforcement And Litigation In Ontario Securities Regulation, Mary Condon
Rethinking Enforcement And Litigation In Ontario Securities Regulation, Mary Condon
Articles & Book Chapters
The Ontario government has recently made changes to provincial securities law that are aimed at more effective enforcement. For example, statutory civil remedies are now available to investors in actions involving misrepresentation or inadequate disclosure in the secondary market. A broader range of sanctioning options has also been made available to the Ontario Securities Commission.
The author explores the factors contributing to these developments, identifies recent controversies surrounding the Commission's enforcement activities, and evaluates the effectiveness of different approaches to enforcement. The author reviews policy issues surrounding enforcement through public, criminal and quasi-criminal sanctions, as well as civil remedies, and …
Does The Plaintiff Matter? An Empirical Analysis Of Lead Plaintiffs In Securities Class Actions, Randall Thomas, James D. Cox
Does The Plaintiff Matter? An Empirical Analysis Of Lead Plaintiffs In Securities Class Actions, Randall Thomas, James D. Cox
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The PSLRA's lead plaintiff provision was adopted in order to encourage large shareholders with claims in a securities fraud class action to step forward to become the class' representative. Congress' expectation was that these investors would actively monitor the conduct of a securities fraud class action so as to reduce the litigation agency costs that may arise when class counsel's interests diverge from those of the shareholder class. Proponents of the provision claimed that there would be substantial benefits from having institutional investors serve as lead plaintiffs. Now, ten years later, the claim that the lead plaintiff is a more …
The Essential Role Of Securities Regulation, Zohar Goshen, Gideon Parchomovsky
The Essential Role Of Securities Regulation, Zohar Goshen, Gideon Parchomovsky
Faculty Scholarship
This Article posits that the essential role of securities regulation is to create a competitive market for sophisticated professional investors and analysts (information traders). The Article advances two related theses – one descriptive and the other normative. Descriptively, the Article demonstrates that securities regulation is specifically designed to facilitate and protect the work of information traders. Securities regulation may be divided into three broad categories: (i) disclosure duties; (ii) restrictions on fraud and manipulation; and (iii) restrictions on insider trading – each of which contributes to the creation of a vibrant market for information traders. Disclosure duties reduce information traders’ …
Securities Mediation: Dispute Resolution For The Individual Investor, Jill I. Gross
Securities Mediation: Dispute Resolution For The Individual Investor, Jill I. Gross
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Part I of this article will provide a brief history of ADR in the securities industry (primarily arbitration), and then will describe the emergence of mediation as an alternative to arbitration. Part II will explore the state and federal statutory regulations that arguably govern the securities mediation process, and their impact on procedural and substantive justice. In particular, this section will review the applicability to and impact on securities mediation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (1934 Act), the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), and state mediation statutes, including the Uniform Mediation Act. In this section, I will argue that …
Transnational Regulatory Litigation, Hannah Buxbaum
Transnational Regulatory Litigation, Hannah Buxbaum
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Recent years have seen much debate about the role of national courts in addressing global harms. That debate has focused on the application by domestic courts of international law - for instance, in civil actions brought in U.S. courts to enforce human rights law. This article identifies a parallel development in the area of economic regulation. It classifies and analyzes a category of cases that seek the application of regulatory law by domestic courts in situations involving global economic misconduct. Like the public international law cases, these cases highlight the tension between the benefits to be gained by enhanced enforcement …
The Next Epidemic: Bubbles And The Growth And Decay Of Securities Regulation, Erik F. Gerding
The Next Epidemic: Bubbles And The Growth And Decay Of Securities Regulation, Erik F. Gerding
Publications
This article explores how speculative bubbles undermine the effectiveness of securities regulations and spawn epidemics of securities fraud. A brief historical survey demonstrates that stock market bubbles almost invariably coincide with epidemics of securities fraud, and provides a compelling argument that the outbreak of fraud in the Enron era did not stem merely from factors unique to the 1990s, but from the dynamics of an asset price bubble as well.
Drawing on perspectives from securities law practice and economic theory, the article argues that bubbles dilute the deterrent effect of antifraud rules and promote deregulation. Both effects alter the calculus …
Merrill Lynch V. Dabit: Federal Preemption Of Holders' Class Actions, Mark J. Loewenstein
Merrill Lynch V. Dabit: Federal Preemption Of Holders' Class Actions, Mark J. Loewenstein
Publications
No abstract provided.