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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInExpert: Time for SEC to consolidate – AP
How are the SEC’s focus and activity likely to change in an administration that tilts toward easing regulation? We asked James Cox, a professor at Duke University School of Law who’s an expert on securities law and a close SEC-watcher. via Expert: Time for SEC to consolidate – AP
UK University Developing Smart Computer System to Detect Insider Trading
At the University of Sunderland in the UK, developers are working on a “smart” computer system that is designed to spot signs of insider trading and spin. The Press Association reports that the system, which is known as Cassandra (Computerised Analysis of Stocks and Shares for Novelty Detection and Radical Activities), will track share movements […]
Guest Column: Can Shareholders Waive the Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption of Reliance?
Guest column by Adam Pritchard, the Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. On Thursday, November 20, Prof. Pritchard will be speaking on the topic of “Reforming Securities Class Actions” at the University of Chicago. I recently wrote about the power of shareholders to waive the FOTM presumption […]
Prof. Adam Pritchard: Reforming Securities Class Actions Via Shareholder Proposal
Last month, Adam Pritchard, a Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, published a paper in the Cato Supreme Court Review that proposes a way for shareholders of public corporations to “fix” what he calls the mistake of Basic v. Levinson through a shareholder proposal. Basic is the U.S. Supreme Court case that established […]