Donald C. Langevoort

Georgetown University Law Center

Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20001

United States

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1.

Monitoring: The Behavioral Economics of Inducing Agents' Compliance with Legal Rules

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Jul 2001
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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The Human Nature of Corporate Boards: Law, Norms and the Unintended Consequences of Independence and Accountability

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Sep 2000
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Managing the 'Expectations Gap' in Investor Protection: The Sec and the Post-Enron Reform Agenda

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Sep 2002
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Managing the 'Expectations Gap' in Investor Protection: The Sec and the Post-Enron Reform Agenda

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Dec 2003
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Enron, Corporate Governance, Securities Law, Securities Regulation, Corporate Law, Sarbanes-Oxley

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Taming the Animal Spirits of the Stock Markets: A Behavioral Approach to Securities Regulation

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 15 Jul 2002
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Behavioral Ethics, Behavioral Compliance

in Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing, Jennifer Arlen, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2023
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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legal compliance, behavioral ethics, law and psychology

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The Behavioral Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions

Transactions, Forthcoming, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-17
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Oct 2010
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Psychology, Mergers, Behavioral Law and Economics

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The SEC and the Madoff Scandal: Three Narratives in Search of a Story

Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 1475433, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1475433
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Sep 2009
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities fraud, Madoff, narrative

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Structuring Securities Regulation in the European Union: Lessons from the U.S. Experience

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 624582, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 41/2005
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Dec 2004
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities regulation, enforcement, fraud, Securities and Exchange Commission

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Chasing the Greased Pig Down Wall Street: A Gatekeeper’s Guide to the Psychology, Culture and Ethics of Financial Risk-Taking

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, pp. 1209-1246, 2011, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-40, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-11
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2012
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities fraud, financial crisis, ethics

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Behavioral Approaches to Corporate Law

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF CORPORATE LAW, Claire A. Hill and Brett H. McDonnell eds., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar 2012, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-015, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-055
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Apr 2012
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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behavioral economics, corporate law, securities law, behavioral finance, behavioral approaches, corporate cultures, corporate governance, legal scholars

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The SEC, Retail Investors, and the Institutionalization of the Securities Markets

Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper Series
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Sep 2008
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities regulation, retail investors, behavioral economics

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'Publicness' in Contemporary Securities Regulation after the JOBS Act

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 101, pp. 337-386, 2013, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-002, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-004
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2013
Donald C. Langevoort and Robert B. Thompson
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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securities regulation, disclosure, publicness

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Internal Controls after Sarbanes-Oxley: Revisiting Corporate Law's Duty of Care as Responsibility for Systems

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Sep 2005
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Private Litigation to Enforce Fiduciary Duties in Mutual Funds: Derivative Suits, Disinterested Directors and the Ideology of Investor Sovereignty

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 61/2006
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Mar 2006
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Mutual fund scandals, compensation, fiduciary responsibility, derivative actions

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Redrawing the Public-Private Boundaries in Entrepreneurial Capital-Raising

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-119, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-031
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 18 May 2014
Robert B. Thompson and Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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securities regulation, disclosure, publicness, JOBS Act, reverse mergers, PIPEs

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The Social Construction of Sarbanes-Oxley

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 930642
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Sep 2006
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act, securities regulation, auditing, corporate governance

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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 19 Corporate Law Professors, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2015
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Columbia Law School, Duke University School of Law, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, Widener University Delaware Law School, Yale University - Law School, New York University School of Law, New York University School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, BC Law School, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School and New York University (NYU)
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corporate politics, union politics, First Amendment, shareholder rights, corporate speech

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Corporate Adolescence: Why Did 'We' not Work?

Texas Law Review, Vol. 99, Issue 7, Pp. 1347-1385., (2021). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2343.
Number of pages: 40 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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Fraud by Hindsight

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Feb 2005
Mitu Gulati, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Donald C. Langevoort
University of Virginia School of Law, Cornell Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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Basic at Twenty: Rethinking Fraud-on-the-Market

Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 1026316
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 31 Oct 2007
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities regulation, securities litigation

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Cultures of Compliance

54 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 933
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2017
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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compliance, human behavior

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Caremark and Compliance: A Twenty Year Lookback

Temple Law Review, Vol. 90, Pp. 727-742
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2018
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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compliance, corporate crime, boards of directors

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Deconstructing Section 11: Public Offering Liability in a Continuous Disclosure Environment

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Jan 2000
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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What Were They Thinking? Insider Trading and the Scienter Requirement

RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INSIDER TRADING, Stephen Bainbridge, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-111
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Jul 2012
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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insider trading, scienter, securities law, securities fraud, Supreme Court, misappropriation

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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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The Sec as a Lawmaker: Choices About Investor Protection in the Face of Uncertainty

Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 947510
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Nov 2006
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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On Leaving Corporate Executives Naked, Homeless and Without Wheels: Corporate Fraud, Equitable Remedies, and the Debate Over Entity Versus Individual Liability

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2007, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 1015815
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Sep 2007
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Securities Regulation, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance

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Getting (Too) Comfortable: In-House Lawyers, Enterprise Risk and the Financial Crisis

Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-27, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-135
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Nov 2011
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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lawyers, ethics, financial crisis

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Watching Insider Trading Law Wobble: Obus, Newman, Salman, Two Martomas, and a Blaszczak

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 22 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2020
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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insider trading, securities fraud

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U.S. Securities Regulation and Global Competition

Virginia Law & Business Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 1313133
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Dec 2008
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities markets, international competition

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Petition for Rulemaking on Short and Distort

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Mar 2020
Columbia Law School, Columbia Law School, Duke University School of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Cornell Law School
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Short, Distort, Law, Finance, Disclosure

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Disasters and Disclosures

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Jan 2018
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities fraud, risk disclosures, sustainability

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'Fine Distinctions' in the Contemporary Law of Insider Trading

Columbia Business Law Review, pp. 429-460, 2013, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-032
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2013
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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insider trading, Rule 10b-5, Rule 14e-3, misappropriation theory, securities fraud, Supreme Court

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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 22 Corporate Law Professors, Mark Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, et aL, No. 16-1466

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Jan 2018
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School, Duke University School of Law, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Stanford Law School, University of Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale University - Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, BC Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School, New York University (NYU), Harvard Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law SchoolVanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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corporate politics, union politics, First Amendment, shareholder rights, corporate speech

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Seeking Sunlight in Santa Fe's Shadow: The Sec's Strategic Pursuit of Managerial Accountability

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Mar 2001
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Judgment Day for Fraud-on-the-Market?: Reflections on Amgen and the Second Coming of Halliburton

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-058
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2013
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities fraud, class actions, private securities litigation

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IPOs and the Slow Death of Section 5

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Aug 2013
Donald C. Langevoort and Robert B. Thompson
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
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IPOs, securities offerings, securities regulation

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Technological Evolution and the Devolution of Corporate Financial Reporting

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Dec 2003
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Reflections on Scienter (and the Securities Fraud Case Against Martha Stewart that Never Happened)

Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 808104
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Sep 2005
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Lies Without Liars? Janus Capital and Conservative Securities Jurisprudence

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 90, pp. 933-964, 2013, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-019, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 May 2014
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities, fraud, statutory intepretation

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The Effects of Shareholder Primacy, Publicness, and 'Privateness' on Corporate Cultures

Seattle University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 Sep 2019
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Corporate Governance, Culture

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Reading Stoneridge Carefully: A Duty-based Approach to Reliance and Third Party Liability Under Rule 10b-5

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, 2010, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-13, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-47
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2010
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities fraud; secondary liability; reliance

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Judgment Day for Fraud-on-the-Market: Reflections on Amgen and the Second Coming of Halliburton

Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Aug 2014
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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securities, fraud, litigation

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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
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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From Texas Gulf Sulphur to Chiarella: A Tale of Two Duties

Georgetown University Law Center, Scholarship@Georgetown Law, 2017
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Dec 2017
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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What Were They Thinking? State of Mind Puzzles in Insider Trading

Georgetown University Law Center Research Paper No. Forthcoming., (2023). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2496.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2023
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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Insider Trading, Scienter

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Gatekeepers, Cultural Captives, or Knaves? Corporate Lawyers Through Different Lenses

Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Nov 2019
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
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corporate lawyers, professional responsibility

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Rereading Cady, Roberts: The Ideology and Practice of Insider Trading Regulation

Posted: 03 Jan 2000
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center

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Half-Truths: Protecting Mistaken Inferences by Investors and Others

Posted: 08 Dec 1999
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center

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Organized Illusions: A Behavioral Theory of Why Corporations Mislead Stock Market Investors (and Cause Other Social Harms)

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 146, No. 2, 1998.
Posted: 20 Sep 1998
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center

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Selling Hope, Selling Risk: Some Lessons for Law from Behavioral Economics About Stockbrokers and Their Sophisticated Customers

California Law Review, Vol. 83, Issue 3 (1996).
Posted: 26 Apr 1998
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center

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Toward More Effective Risk Disclosure for Technology- Enhanced Investing

Washington University Law Quarterly symposium on "Markets and Information Gathering in an Electronic Age: Securities Regulation in the 21st Century," Vol. 75, No. 4 (1997).
Posted: 11 Jul 1997
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center

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Beliefs, Biases and Organizational Behavior: The Epistemology of Corporate-Securities Lawyering

delivered as the Seventh Abraham L. Pomerantz Lecture at Brooklyn Law School and Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 2 (1998).
Posted: 11 Jun 1997
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center

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