Lynn’s article, On Regulating Conflict of Interest in the Credit Rating Industry, 13 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Policy 253 (2010), was cited in Andrew Hatchett, Sox It to ‘Em: Using Sarbanes-Oxley as a Model for Regulating Conflicts of Interest in the Credit Rating Industry, 63 Ala. L. Rev. 407 (2012).
Marianna Brown Bettman / March 2012
Marianna published “It Ain’t over Till It’s over: The Hamilton County Juvenile Court Election,” as part of her monthly column, Legally Speaking, in the February 29 issue of the American Israelite.
Marianna posted 8 new entries this month on her blog, Legally Speaking Ohio, where she provides insightful commentary on the happenings of the Ohio Supreme Court on varied topics, such as: defining recklessness; standing in regulatory takings claim; the right to a co-defendant’s speedy trial; the nonwaivable duty to build a house in a workmanlike manner; the community caretaking / emergency-aid exception to the Fourth Amendment; and changes to Juvenile Rule 3; standing and real party in interest issues in foreclosure.
Marianna participated on a faculty panel for newly admitted students.
Marianna chaired the Truman Scholarship competition to award graduate study scholarships to college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who commit to careers in public service (selected winners for Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana). Interviews were held at the UC College of Law.
Louis D. Bilionis / March 2012
Barbara Black / March 2012
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).
Michele Bradley / March 2012
A. Christopher Bryant / March 2012
Chris spoke to Miami University’s Pre-law Society on Wednesday, March 14.
Chris published an op-ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer entitled, Supreme Court Enters the Healthcare Maelstrom on Monday, March 26.
Chris’s article, Constitutional Forbearance, 46 U. Rich. L. Rev. 695 ( 2012), is now in print.
Paul L. Caron / March 2012
The Graduate Tax Series of LexisNexis, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Employee Benefits Law: Qualification and ERISA Requirements (2d ed. 2012), by Kathryn Kennedy (John Marshall) & Paul Shultz (IRS).
Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:
- 9 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 13, nos. 19-27)
- 3 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 12, nos. 8-10)
- 4 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 12, nos. 8-11)
Several of Paul’s publications were cited:
- TaxProf Blog, in Robert A. Green (Cornell), Notable International Tax Articles of 2011, 134 Tax Notes 1429 (Mar. 12, 2012);
- Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, 13 Va. Tax Rev. 517 (1994), in Leandra Lederman, The Fight over “Fighting Regs” and Judicial Deference in Tax Litigation, 92 B.U. L. Rev. 643 (2012); and
TaxProf Blog, Pepperdine Hosts Symposium on the Most Maligned Supreme Court Decisions (Apr. 1, 2011) in David Gamage & Devin J. Heckman, A Better Way Forward for State Taxation of E-Commerce, 92 B.U. L. Rev. 483 (2012).
Felix B. Chang / March 2012
Jacob Katz Cogan / March 2012
Two of Jacob’s publications were cited:
- Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman (Jacob Katz Cogan, et al. eds., Martinus Nijhoff Pub. 2011) was cited in Richard B. Bilder, Recent Books in International Law: Books Received, 106 Am. J. Intl. L. 217 (2012); and
- The Regulatory Turn in International Law, 52 Harv. Intl. L.J. 321 (2011), in Gregory Shaffer & Tom Ginsburg, The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship, 106 Am. J. Intl. L. 1 (2012).