Barbara and the Corporate Law Center, which she directs, presented the 2012 Corporate Law Symposium, Implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, on March 30.  The Symposium was featured in 2012 Corporate Law Symposium: “Implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act”, updates@uclaw (Mar. 2012).  At the Symposium, Barbara also presented a paper titled,  “How the D.C. Circuit Derailed Investor Protection.”

On March 16, Barbara presented her paper “Why is the SEC Combating Global Corruption” at the Ohio State University Moritz Law Symposium, “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at 35,” in Columbus, Ohio.

Several of Barbara’s articles were cited:

• Arbitration of Investors’ Claims against Issuers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?, 75 L. & Contemp. Probs. 107 (2012), in James D. Cox, Access to Justice: Investor Suits in the Era of the Roberts Court: Foreword: Access to Justice, 75 L. & Contemp. Probs. i (2012);
• Fraud on the Market: A Criticism of Dispensing with Reliance Requirements in Certain Open Market Transactions, 62 N.C. L. Rev. 435 (1984), in Bernard S. Sharfman, Why Proxy Access is Harmful to Corporate Governance, 37 Iowa J. Corp. L. 387 (2012);
• How to Improve Retail Investor Protection after the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 13 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 59 (2010), in Lynne L. Dallas, Short-Termism, the Financial Crisis, and Corporate Governance, 37 Iowa J. Corp. L. 265 (2012);
• Reputational Damages in Securities Litigation, 35 Iowa J. Corp. L. 169 (2009), in Allen Ferrell & Atanu Saha, Forward-Casting 10b-5 Damages: A Comparison to Other Methods, 37 Iowa J. Corp. L. 365(2012);
• Should the SEC Be a Collection Agency for Defrauded Investors?, 63 Bus. Law. 317(2008), in Geoffrey Christopher Rapp, Mutiny by the Bounties? The Attempt to Reform Wall Street by the New Whistleblower Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, 2012 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 73;
• Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.: Reliance on Deceptive Conduct and the Future of Securities Fraud Class Actions, 36 Sec. Reg. L.J. 330 (2008), in Michael J. Kaufman & John M. Wunderlich, Fraud Created the Market, 63 Ala. L. Rev. 275 (2012); 
• Tattlers and Trail Blazers: Attorneys’ Liability for Clients’ Fraud , 46 Washburn L.J. 91 (2006), in Elizabeth Cosenza, Is the Third Time the Charm? Janus and the Proper Balance between Primary and Secondary Actor Liability under Section 10(B), 33 Cardozo L. Rev. De Novo 1019 (2012); and
• When Perception Changes Reality: An Empirical Study of Investors’ Views of the Fairness of Securities Arbitration, 2008 J. Dis. Res. 349 (with Jill Gross), in Thomas J. Stipanowich, The Third Arbitration Trilogy: Stolt-Nielsen, Rent-A-Center, Concepcion and the Future of American Arbitration, 22 Am. Rev. Intl. Arb. 323 (2011).