Alexander I. Platt

University of Kansas School of Law

Green Hall

1535 W. 15th Street

Lawrence, KS 66045-7577

United States

http://law.ku.edu/alexander-platt

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

19

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

The Whistleblower Industrial Complex

Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 19 May 2022 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2022
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 840 (50,708)

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Whistleblowers, Bounties, Dodd-Frank, SEC, CFTC, Securities Regulation, Public and Private Enforcement, Privatization, Outsourcing, Revolving Door

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Unicorniphobia

Harvard Business Law Review, 2022
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 03 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2022
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 479 (103,721)

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Securities Regulation, Corporate Governance, Unicorns, Uber, Theranos, Disclosure

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Beyond "Market Transparency": Investor Disclosure and Corporate Governance

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 74, 2022
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 18 Aug 2021
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 388 (132,553)

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Securities Regulation, Corporate Governance, Disclosure, 13F, Hedge Fund Activism, Institutional Investors, Shareholder Litigation, Shareholder Activism, Shareholder Proposals

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Index Fund Enforcement

UC Davis Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 05 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2020
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 388 (132,553)
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index funds, enforcement, securities litigation, common ownership

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Gatekeeping in the Dark: SEC Control over Private Securities Litigation Revisited

72 Admin. L. Rev., 2020, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 20-02
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 21 May 2020
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 268 (197,976)

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The Administrative Origins of Mandatory Disclosure

The Journal of Corporation Law (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 13 Sep 2023
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 222 (237,126)

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Mandatory Disclosure, Securities Regulation, Administrative Capacity, Corporatism, Administrative Law, IPOs, Comment Letters, Deficiency Letters, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, James Landis, Benjamin Cohen, New Deal, Administration, Legal History, Baldwin Bane

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SEC Administrative Proceedings: Backlash and Reform

71 Bus. Law. 1 (2016).
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2016
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 216 (242,227)

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Securities and Exchange Commission, Administrative Proceedings

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The Non-Revolving Door

Journal of Corporation Law (April 2021 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 26 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2020
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 207 (251,883)

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Public and Private Securities Enforcement; Securities Regulation; Revolving Door

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Preserving the Appointments Safety Valve

30 Yale Law & Policy Review 255 (2012)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2012
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 203 (256,507)

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Recess Appointments, Constitutional Law, Pro Forma Sessions

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Going Dark(er): The SEC Whistleblower Program's FY 2022 Report is the Least Transparent in Agency History

U. Ill. L. Rev. Online (forthcoming 2023)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2023
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 198 (263,557)

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Whistleblowers, Bounties, SEC, Dodd-Frank, Transparency

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Is Administrative Summary Judgment Unlawful?

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb. 2021 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 26 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2021
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 158 (319,226)

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SEC Enforcement, Administrative Proceedings, Administrative Adjudication

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Beyond 'Going Dark': The SEC's 13F Proposal And Hedge Fund Activism

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2020
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 155 (324,443)
Citation 1

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Securities and Exchange Commission; 13F; Hedge Fund Activism

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(More) Legal Guardrails for a Unicorn Crackdown

N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online (forthcoming 2023)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 05 May 2023
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 143 (346,402)

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unicorns, Regulation D, Private Placements, disclosure

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The Temptation of Martinez v. Ryan: Legal Ethics for the Habeas Bar

Criminal Law Brief, Vol. 8, 2012
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 01 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2013
Lawrence Kornreich and Alexander I. Platt
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 138 (356,171)

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Martinez v. Ryan, Legal Ethics, Habeas Corpus, Conflict of Interest

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Legal Guardrails for a Unicorn Crackdown

Mich. L. Rev. Online
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2022
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 136 (360,261)

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Unicorns, 12(g), securities regulation, SEC, 'held of record,' 'beneficially owned,' JOBS Act

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Unstacking the Deck: Administrative Summary Judgment and Political Control

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 34, 2017
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 13 May 2017
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 111 (419,090)

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Securities and Exchange Commission, Administrative Summary Judgment, Securities Enforcement

17.

Debiasing Statutory Interpretation

39 Ohio N. U. L. Rev. 275 (2012)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2016
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 109 (424,609)

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Statutory Interpretation, Behavioral Psychology, Law and Behavioral Economics, Judicial Behavior, Cognitive Coherence, Coherence-Based Reasoning

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Deciding Not to Decide: A Limited Defense of the Silent Concurrence

17 J. App. Prac. & Process, Spring 2016
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2016
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 101 (448,323)

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Concurring Opinions

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Center for Food Safety v. Vilsack: Roundup Ready Regulations

Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 37, p. 773, 2010
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 01 Sep 2012
Alexander I. Platt
University of Kansas School of Law
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