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Full-Text Articles in Securities Law
The Screening Effect Of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Stephen Choi, Karen K. Nelson, Adam C. Pritchard
The Screening Effect Of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Stephen Choi, Karen K. Nelson, Adam C. Pritchard
Law & Economics Working Papers Archive: 2003-2009
Prior research shows that the PSLRA increased the significance of merit-related factors, such as the presence of an accounting restatement or insider selling, in determining the incidence and outcomes of securities fraud class actions. (Johnson, Nelson, and Pritchard, 2007). This result, however, is consistent with two possible hypotheses. First, the PSLRA may have reduced solely the incidence of non-meritorious litigation. Second, the PSLRA may have changed the definition of merit, effectively precluding claims that would have survived and produced a settlement pre-PSLRA. This paper tests these alternative hypotheses. We find that pre-PSLRA claims that settled for nuisance value would be …
The Missing Link Between Insider Trading And Securities Fraud, Richard A. Booth
The Missing Link Between Insider Trading And Securities Fraud, Richard A. Booth
Faculty Scholarship
In a recent article, I argued that diversified investors - the vast majority of investors - would prefer that securities fraud class actions under the 1934 Act and Rule 10b-5 be dismissed in the absence of insider trading or similar offenses during the fraud period. See Richard A. Booth, The End of the Securities Fraud Class Action as We Know It, 4 Berk. Bus. L. J. 1 (2007), http://ssrn.com/abstract=683197. In this article, I draw on the classic case, SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulfur Company, to show that the federal courts originally viewed securities fraud as inextricably connected to insider trading …
Kegs, Crude, And Commodities Law: On Why It Is Time To Reexamine The Suitability Doctrine, Andrew M. Pardieck
Kegs, Crude, And Commodities Law: On Why It Is Time To Reexamine The Suitability Doctrine, Andrew M. Pardieck
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Difficult, Duplicative And Wasteful?: The Nasd's Prohibition Of Class Action Arbitration In The Post-Bazzle Era, Matthew Eisler
Difficult, Duplicative And Wasteful?: The Nasd's Prohibition Of Class Action Arbitration In The Post-Bazzle Era, Matthew Eisler
Cardozo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Remarks: Enron And Multi-Jurisdictional Fraud, John R. Kroger
Remarks: Enron And Multi-Jurisdictional Fraud, John R. Kroger
Cardozo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Explaining "Explained Decisions": Nasd's Proposal For Written Explanations In Arbitration Awards, Marilyn Blumberg Cane, Ilya Torchinsky
Explaining "Explained Decisions": Nasd's Proposal For Written Explanations In Arbitration Awards, Marilyn Blumberg Cane, Ilya Torchinsky
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Incoherence Of American Corporate Governance And The Need For Federal Standards, Timothy De Lizza
The Incoherence Of American Corporate Governance And The Need For Federal Standards, Timothy De Lizza
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Comment suggests that the U.S. Congress should expand the SEC’s mandate so that it has clear authority to implement corporate governance standards. Part I provides an overview of problems regarding how much executive pay is given, how pay is set, and how it is disclosed. It then highlights regulatory responses to those problems, including how they provide contradictory incentives and result in unpredictability and over-regulation. Part II considers the current scope of the SEC’s mandate, including courts’ and commentators’ difficulty in defining its boundaries. Part II concludes that this difficulty sometimes makes the SEC’s regulatory actions either ineffective or …
Criminalization Of Corporate Law: The Impact Of Criminal Sanctions On Corporate Misconduct, Donna M. Nagy
Criminalization Of Corporate Law: The Impact Of Criminal Sanctions On Corporate Misconduct, Donna M. Nagy
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Pension Protection Act Of 2006: An Overview Of Sweeping Changes In The Law Governing Retirement Plans, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 843 (2007), Craig C. Martin, Joshua Rafsky
The Pension Protection Act Of 2006: An Overview Of Sweeping Changes In The Law Governing Retirement Plans, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 843 (2007), Craig C. Martin, Joshua Rafsky
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Much Ado About The Meaning Of "Benefit Accrual": The Issue Of Age Discrimination In Hybrid Cash Balance Plan Qualification Is Dying But Not Yet Dead, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 867 (2007), Barry Kozak, Joshua Waldbeser
Much Ado About The Meaning Of "Benefit Accrual": The Issue Of Age Discrimination In Hybrid Cash Balance Plan Qualification Is Dying But Not Yet Dead, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 867 (2007), Barry Kozak, Joshua Waldbeser
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legitimizing Private Placement Broker-Dealers Who Deal With Private Investment Funds: A Proposal For A New Regulatory Regime And A Limited Exception To Registration, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 703 (2007), Robert Connolly
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Beyond Enron: Regulation In Energy Derivatives Trading, Alexia Brunet, Meredith Shafe
Beyond Enron: Regulation In Energy Derivatives Trading, Alexia Brunet, Meredith Shafe
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation in December 2002 is the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history. The Houston-based company, formed in 1985, became the nation's seventh-largest company in revenue by buying electricity from generators and selling it to consumers. Because Enron made the market in energy trading, its collapse fundamentally altered the U.S. energy trading industry. Equally important, the disclosure of Enron's role in California's power market crisis shattered confidence in deregulated wholesale-electricity and natural gas markets, creating obstacles for new players seeking to restore confidence in energy trading markets. New market entrants offer their clients a more complete …
The Equivalence Approach To Securities Regulation, Tzung-Bor Wei
The Equivalence Approach To Securities Regulation, Tzung-Bor Wei
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
It is undisputed that the world's financial markets are becoming increasingly international and increasingly integrated. "How should regulators respond?" is a hotly contested issue. Academic literature debates two competing approaches to international securities regulation--"harmonization" and "regulatory competition." Harmonization is the idea that rules and regulations should be standardized across countries as much as possible. Countries may achieve harmonization by ceding lawmaking authority to an international body or agency; alternatively, countries may agree to enact similar rules through their normal, domestic rule-promulgating procedures. In contrast to the harmonization approach stands the regulatory competition approach. Under this model, countries do not coordinate …
Law As Symbol: Appearances In The Regulation Of Investment Advisers And Attorneys , Larry D. Barnett
Law As Symbol: Appearances In The Regulation Of Investment Advisers And Attorneys , Larry D. Barnett
Cleveland State Law Review
From a macrosociological perspective, law is an institution of society, is shaped by conditions in society, and facilitates social life by interalia producing symbols. Law accordingly adopts concepts and principles that focus on the appearance to society of certain phenomena and that are symbols when the phenomena are socially significant. To illustrate symbols in law, the article examines (i) the "hold oneself out" standard in defining an investment adviser under the federal Investment Advisers Act and (ii) the standard for ethical conduct that requires attorneys to avoid appearances of impropriety. If symbolic concepts and principles are tied to the properties …
Mcmahon Turns Twenty: The Regulation Of Fairness In Securities Arbitration, Jill I. Gross
Mcmahon Turns Twenty: The Regulation Of Fairness In Securities Arbitration, Jill I. Gross
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
I believe that current regulation of securities arbitration does ensure that it is fair to investors. Part II of this Commentary explores the various sources of law, including the FAA, which could require fairness in securities arbitration. It revisits the first critical assumption of the McMahon Court, that the FAA's provisions for post-award judicial review protect investors from an unfair arbitration process. This Part demonstrates that, while the FAA does require “fundamental fairness” in arbitration, courts loosely construe that requirement and find most arbitration proceedings meet it easily. Part IIII of this Commentary explores SEC oversight of securities arbitration, particularly …
Antitrust And Ipos In The Supreme Court, Clark C. Havighurst
Antitrust And Ipos In The Supreme Court, Clark C. Havighurst
Faculty Scholarship
This short comment suggests a connection, so far unrecognized, between two antitrust cases currently awaiting decision by the Supreme Court. In one case, the Court is likely, though not certain, to overturn the long-standing rule that resale price maintenance is illegal per se. If that should occur, another case on the Court’s docket, involving the scope of the implied antitrust immunity enjoyed by underwriters of corporate securities offerings, would (or should) look very different. This comment suggests that, if the law of vertical restraints is finally rationalized so that an issuer of a security may lawfully restrict price and other …
The End Of Corporate Governance Law: Optimizing Regulatory Structures For A Race To The Top., Steven A. Ramirez
The End Of Corporate Governance Law: Optimizing Regulatory Structures For A Race To The Top., Steven A. Ramirez
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Insider Trading Rules Can Affect Attractiveness Of Country's Stock Markets, Laura Nyantung Beny
Insider Trading Rules Can Affect Attractiveness Of Country's Stock Markets, Laura Nyantung Beny
Articles
The academic debate about the desirability of prohibiting insider trading is longstanding and as yet unresolved. Until Henry Manne’s 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market, the debate centered on whether insider trading is unfair to public investors who are not privy to private corporate information. However, the fairness approach is malleable and indeterminate and thus does not lend itself to clear-cut policy prescriptions. Since Manne’s book, the focus of the debate has been on the effect of insider trading on economic efficiency. Manne argued that, contrary to the prevailing legal and moral opinion of the time, insider trading …
The Rise Of Independent Directors In The United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value And Stock Market Prices, Jeffrey N. Gordon
The Rise Of Independent Directors In The United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value And Stock Market Prices, Jeffrey N. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
Between 1950 and 2005, the composition of large public company boards dramatically shifted towards independent directors, from approximately 20% independents to 75% independents. The standards for independence also became increasingly rigorous over the period. The available empirical evidence provides no convincing explanation for this change. This Article explains the trend in terms of two interrelated developments in U.S. political economy: first, the shift to shareholder value as the primary corporate objective; second, the greater informativeness of stock market prices. The overriding effect is to commit the firm to a shareholder wealth maximizing strategy as best measured by stock price performance. …
The Role Of Financial Journalists In Corporate Governance, Michael J. Borden
The Role Of Financial Journalists In Corporate Governance, Michael J. Borden
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This Article pursues the important theme of disclosure, but focuses on a feature that has remained almost entirely overlooked by corporate and securities law scholars: the role of financial journalists in corporate governance. This omission is perhaps due to the fact that journalists do not fit easily into a legal discussion because they are largely unregulated. They are, in a sense, not legal actors, and, therefore do not comfortably become the subject of a legal prescription. Nevertheless, journalists contribute in many ways to the legal system at large and the system of corporate governance in particular.This Article uses case studies …
Hedge Fund Regulation: The Amended Investment Advisers Act Does Not Protect Investors From The Problems Created By Hedge Funds, Sean M. Donahue
Hedge Fund Regulation: The Amended Investment Advisers Act Does Not Protect Investors From The Problems Created By Hedge Funds, Sean M. Donahue
Cleveland State Law Review
Hedge funds are a viable investment alternative for financially sophisticated investors. However, because traditional hedge funds and funds of funds are unsuitable for average investors, these investors should be restricted from making such investments. Regardless of who invests in hedge funds, advisers of these entities must be regulated to assure that they do not commit fraud. In addition to monitoring advisers, the SEC must limit hedge funds' use of leverage to assure that market collapse does not occur. Part II of this Note describes the history and development of hedge funds. Part III illustrates the current problems facing the hedge …
Resolving The Circuit Split On Standing In False Advertising Claims And Incorporation Of Prudential Standing In State Deceptive Trade Practices Law: The Quest For Optimal Levels Of Accurate Information In The Marketplace, Kevin M. Lemley
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
This article has two significant goals. First, it addresses the circuit split on the proper test for standing in false advertising claims under section 43 (a) of the Lanham Act. With slight modification, courts should adopt the reasonable interest test as articulated in two recent opinions authored by Justice Alito while he was sitting on the Third Circuit of Appeals, Second, this article proposes similar prudential standing considerations, along with proposed legislative amendments, for state deceptive trade laws. This section of the article focuses primarily on Arkansas law, but the proposals set forth can be applied to other jurisdictions. The …
Insider Trading Laws And Stock Markets Around The World: An Empirical Contribution To The Theoretical Law And Economics Debate, Laura Nyantung Beny
Insider Trading Laws And Stock Markets Around The World: An Empirical Contribution To The Theoretical Law And Economics Debate, Laura Nyantung Beny
Articles
The primary goal of this Article is to bring empirical evidence to bear on the heretofore largely theoretical law and economics debate about insider trading. The Article first summarizes various agency, market, and contractual (or "Coasian") theories of insider trading propounded over the course of this longstanding debate. The Article then proposes three testable hypotheses regarding the relationship between insider trading laws and several measures of stock market performance. Exploiting the natural variation of international data, the Article finds that more stringent insider trading laws are generally associated with more dispersed equity ownership, greater stock price accuracy and greater stock …
The Investor Compensation Fund, Alicia J. Davis
The Investor Compensation Fund, Alicia J. Davis
Articles
The prevailing view among securities regulation scholars is that compensating victims of secondary market securities fraud is inefficient. As the theory goes, diversified investors are as likely to be on the gaining side of a transaction tainted by fraud as the losing side. Therefore, such investors should have no expected net losses from fraud because their expected losses will be matched by expected gains. This Article argues that this view is flawed; even diversified investors can suffer substantial losses from fraud, presenting a compelling case for compensation. The interest in compensation, however, should be advanced by better means than are …
Stapled Securities--"The Next Big Thing" For Income Trusts? Useful Lessons From The Us Experience With Stapled Shares, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Tim Edgar, Fadi Shaheen
Stapled Securities--"The Next Big Thing" For Income Trusts? Useful Lessons From The Us Experience With Stapled Shares, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Tim Edgar, Fadi Shaheen
Articles
The Department of Finance has introduced two separate sets of legislation that together attempt to limit demand in the income trust market (though with very different revenue consequences). However, neither the proposed legislation nor the existing Income Tax Act contains an equity recharacterization rule. Consequently, the tax results associated with the standard income trust and royalty trust structures can still be realized with direct holding structures, in which the use of a trust as a pooling mechanism is eliminated and investors hold directly a combination of high-yield junk debt and a specified number of shares of the issuer. Until now, …
Sec Enforcement And Examinations Concerning Hedge Funds, Barry W. Rashkover, Laurin Blumenthal Kleiman
Sec Enforcement And Examinations Concerning Hedge Funds, Barry W. Rashkover, Laurin Blumenthal Kleiman
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Social Defense Of Sarbanes-Oxley, James A. Fanto
A Social Defense Of Sarbanes-Oxley, James A. Fanto
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Laws Against Bubbles: An Experimental-Asset-Market Approach To Analyzing Financial Regulation, Erik F. Gerding
Laws Against Bubbles: An Experimental-Asset-Market Approach To Analyzing Financial Regulation, Erik F. Gerding
Publications
This article analyzes the effectiveness of proposed and actual securities, financial, and tax laws designed to prevent, or dampen the severity of asset price bubbles, including laws designed to mitigate excessive speculation. The article employs experimental asset market research to measure the effectiveness of these anti-bubble laws in correcting mispricings. Experimental asset markets represent complex simulations of stock markets in which subjects trade securities over a computer network. These markets allow scholars to test causal links between legal policies and market effects in ways that empirical research alone cannot. With these virtual markets, researchers can identify asset price bubbles - …
Sarbanes-Oxley: The Delaware Perspective, Chief Justice Myron T. Steele
Sarbanes-Oxley: The Delaware Perspective, Chief Justice Myron T. Steele
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Social Defense Of Sarbanes-Oxley, James Fanto