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7th Annual Seminar On Securities Law, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, H. Alexander Campbell, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., Ivan M. Diamond, Fredrich H. Thomforde, Frederic H. Davis, Cynthia W. Young, C. Craig Bradley Jr, David W. Harper, Gary L. Stage, Garrison R. Cox
7th Annual Seminar On Securities Law, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, H. Alexander Campbell, Rutheford B. Campbell Jr., Ivan M. Diamond, Fredrich H. Thomforde, Frederic H. Davis, Cynthia W. Young, C. Craig Bradley Jr, David W. Harper, Gary L. Stage, Garrison R. Cox
Continuing Legal Education Materials
Materials from the UK/CLE 7th Annual Seminar on Securities Law held February 12-13, 1988.
"All Cretans Are Liars": The Fight Against Corporate Crime, John Flood
"All Cretans Are Liars": The Fight Against Corporate Crime, John Flood
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Hush: The Criminal Status Of Confidential Information After Mcnally And Carpenter And The Enduring Problem Of Overcriminalization, John C. Coffee Jr.
Hush: The Criminal Status Of Confidential Information After Mcnally And Carpenter And The Enduring Problem Of Overcriminalization, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
Each of the last three decades has witnessed an intense public reaction to a distinctive type of "white collar" crime. In the early 1960's, public attention was riveted by the Electrical Equipment conspiracy and the image of senior corporate executives of major firms meeting clandestinely to fix prices. In the mid-1970's, the focus shifted to corporate bribery, as the media ran daily stories regarding questionable payments abroad and illegal political contributions at home. The representative white collar crime of the 1980's is undoubtedly "insider trading." The archetype of this new kind of criminal in the public's mind is Ivan Boesky …
The Ethics Of Insider Trading, Gary S. Lawson
The Ethics Of Insider Trading, Gary S. Lawson
Faculty Scholarship
The quickest way to become famous is often to become infamous, as arbitrageur Ivan Boesky has recently discovered. Prior to November 1986, Mr. Boesky was well-known within the financial community, but largely unknown outside it. That changed dramatically following revelations that he and Dennis Levine, a merger specialist with the investment banking firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc., had made tens of millions of dollars in the stock market by using Mr. Levine's advance knowledge of impending takeovers by Drexel clients. Today, after disgorging $50 million in profits, paying $50 million in penalties, and receiving a jail sentence, Mr. Boesky …