Hillary A. Sale

Georgetown University Law Center

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1.

Securities Fraud as Corporate Governance: Reflections Upon Federalism

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Dec 2002
Robert B. Thompson and Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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corporate governance, disclosure, securities fraud, federalism

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Redesigning the SEC: Does the Treasury Have a Better Idea?

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-51, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 342
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2010
John C. Coffee and Hillary A. Sale
Columbia Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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What Counts as Fraud? An Empirical Study of Motions to Dismiss Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act

University of Iowa College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2010
Adam C. Pritchard and Hillary A. Sale
University of Michigan Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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Securities litigation, accounting fraud, insider trading

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Observations on the Role of Commodification, Independence and Governance in the Accounting Industry

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 294; and Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2003-18
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Dec 2003
Jonathan R. Macey and Hillary A. Sale
Yale Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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Enron, Corporate Governance, Securities Law, Securities Regulation, Corporate Law, Sarbanes-Oxley

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Delaware's Good Faith

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 89, 2004
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Nov 2003
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Delaware, Good Faith, Fiduciary Duty, Corporate Governance

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Independent Directors as Securities Monitors

Business Lawyer, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2006, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-38
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Jan 2006
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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directors, corporate governance, liability, securities law, corporate law

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Corporate Adolescence: Why Did 'We' not Work?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Feb 2021
Donald C. Langevoort and Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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start-up, fiduciary, director, governance, agency costs, corporate, securities, regulation, entrepreneur

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'We Believe': Omnicare, Legal Risk Disclosure and Corporate Governance

Duke Law Journal, Forthcoming, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-03-03
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Mar 2016
Hillary A. Sale and Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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corporate governance, disclosure, securities fraud, federalism, securities litigation, Delaware, Caremark, Omnicare, fiduciary duty, directors, business judgment rule, oversight, risk management, psychology, publicness, securities law, corporate law

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Monitoring Caremark's Good Faith

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 32, No. 3, 2007, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-32
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2008
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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corporate governance, disclosure, securities fraud, federalism, Delaware, Good Faith, Fiduciary Duty, Corportate Governance, Enron, Sarbanes Oxley, directors, liability, corporate law, derivative litigation

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Good Faith's Procedure and Substance, in re Caremark International Inc., Derivative Litigation

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-20, THE ICONIC CASES IN CORPORATE LAW, Macey, ed., West/Thomson, 2008
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 May 2008
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Van Gorkom, Board of Directors, Caremark, Business Judgment Rule, corporate governance, securities fraud, federalism, Delaware, Good Faith, Fiduciary Duty, Enron, Sarbanes Oxley, directors, liability, corporate law, derivative litigation, corporation, oversight, Delaware corporate law

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Banks, the Forgotten (?) Partners in Fraud

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-09
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 25 Feb 2005
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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investment banks, Enron, fraud, securities fraud, securities disclosure, banking, Securities and Exchange Commission, settlement

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The New 'Public' Corporation

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 74, p. 137, 2011, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-04-01
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 07 May 2011 Last Revised: 12 May 2011
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Judging Heuristics

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 08 Mar 2001
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Judge, Court, Heuristic, Securities, Fraud, Rule

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J.P. Morgan: An Anatomy of Corporate Publicness

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 79, p. 1630, 2014, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-05-04
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Jun 2014
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities regulation, disclosure, publicness, board of directors, shareholder vote, J.P. Morgan, London Whale

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Fiduciary Law, Good Faith and Publicness

Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller, and Robert H. Sitkoff, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-03-05
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2018
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Corporate law, corporations, corporate governance, boards of directors, officers, fiduciary duty, good faith, loyalty, agents, agency law

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Educating Lawyers

U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-18, Journal of College Student Development, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 24 Sep 2007
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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legal education, educating lawyers, curriculum, professional education, educational processes, Socratic method, public, social contract, contractual responsibilities, case-dialogue, instruction, real-world lawyering skills, learning, assessment, New York, analytical reasoning, academic legitimacy

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The Corporate Purpose of Social License

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2020
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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corporate law, corporate governance, publicness, social license, regulation, economic theory, public-private

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Public Governance

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 3, 2013, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-05-01
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 May 2013
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Monitoring Facebook

Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 12, 2022.
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2022
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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corporate law, corporate governance, fiduciary duties, oversight, directors, monitor, recidivism, misconduct

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In re The Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation Rewritten

In re The Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation Rewritten, in “Feminist Judgements: Rewritten Corporate Law,” (Kelli Alces Williams, Anne Choike, & Usha R. Rodrigues, eds.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022), Forthcoming , Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 4219922
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Sep 2022
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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corporate law, corporate governance, board of directors, fiduciary duties, management, strategy, inclusion, diversity, feminist, creative friction, delaware law, decision making, organizational change, disney

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Slack v. Pirani: Brief for Amici Curiae Law and Business Professors in Support of Respondent

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 4391777, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Mar 2023
Joshua Mitts, John C. Coffee, William W. Clayton, James D. Cox, Wendy Gerwick Couture, Merritt B. Fox, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Thomas Lee Hazen, Michael J. Kaufman, Donald C. Langevoort, James J. Park, Hillary A. Sale, Joel Seligman, Marc I. Steinberg, Daniel J. Taylor, David H. Webber, Charles K. Whitehead and Arthur E. Wilmarth
Columbia Law School, Columbia Law School, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, Duke University School of Law, University of Idaho College of Law, Columbia University - Law School, Columbia Law School, University of North Carolina School of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington University in St Louis, School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Boston University School of Law, Cornell Law School and George Washington University Law School
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securities law, direct listings, Section 11, tracing, FINRA, investor protection

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Judges Who Settle

Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-03-02
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2011
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Market Intermediation, Publicness, and Securities Class Actions

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Nov 2015
Hillary A. Sale and Robert B. Thompson
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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securities fraud, PSLRA, market efficiency, market intermediation

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Disclosure's Purpose

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 107, Issue 4, April 2019, Pp. 1045-1069.
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2019
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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corporate governance, securities, directors, fiduciary duties

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Delaware's Diminishment?

Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-08-01
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Aug 2017
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Securities regulation, disclosure, publicness, fiduciary duty, corporate law, corporations, Delaware, corporate governance, financial crisis, disclosure, federalism, directors, oversight

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Disappearing Without a Trace: Sections 11 and 12(2) of the '33 Act

Washington Law Review, April 2000
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 29 Nov 1999
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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Heightened Pleading and Discovery Stays: An Analysis of the Effect of the Pslra's Internal-Information Standard on '33 and '34 Act Claims

Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1, 1999
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 01 Mar 1999
Hillary A. Sale
Georgetown University Law Center
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