The symposium took place on September 29, 2023, exploring the first court case on insider trading: Securities and Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur, Inc., decided by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1968. The symposium was presented by the Quinnipiac School of Law and Quinnipiac Law Review and co-sponsored by the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society, the Connecticut Bar Association and the New York Bar Association.
This symposium took place on November 13, 2020 and focused on gun violence and “libertarian” approaches to reducing it. The symposium, co-sponsored by the Quinnipiac Law Review, was centered on the new book, “Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights,” by Ian Ayres and Fredrick Vars. The authors introduced the panelists for each session and presented closing remarks.
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Fifty-five years after the decision of Securities and Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur, Inc., a distinguished panel of national experts considered the impact of this landmark case on insider trading – past, present and future.
Our distinguished panel of national experts featured representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York State Bar Association and the Connecticut Bar Association. Additionally, it included members of the American College of Trial Lawyers, prominent federal prosecutors, attorneys, partners and law professors.
Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
Jim is an expert forensic accountant with over 30 years of experience. He assists law firms, companies and board committees facing difficult issues involving financial fraud, regulatory investigations and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance and remediation. Jim applies his expertise gained as an independent auditor, internal audit director, chief compliance officer and former US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement accountant to provide clients with value-added solutions to critical problems. He is a CPA, is certified in financial forensics and is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional. He is a frequent speaker on FCPA and fraud topics and serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Chairman of the SEC Historical Society.
Partner, Law Office of Peter G. Eikenberry
Fellow, New York Bar Foundation; Former Partner, Seyfarth Shaw; Former Vice President, Federal Bar Counsel
Partner, Moses Singer LLC
Former Co-Chair, Securities Disputes Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section; Former Senior Trial Counsel, Securities & Exchange Commission
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Former United States Attorney, Southern District of New York; Former President, American College of Trial Lawyers; Chairman, American Bar Association Committee on the Federal Judiciary
Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University School of Law
Former Fellow, Yale University; Former Member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees, Connecticut Lawyers Group; Former Member of the Board of Directors, Connecticut Legal Services
Executive Director, Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
Former Executive Director of the largest association of business journalists (SABEW); Former Executive Director Alfred Friendly Press Partners; Former Executive Director, Radio Television Digital News Foundation
Partner, Allen & Overy
Former Federal Prosecutor, Southern District of New York
Senior Counsel, Division of Enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission; Lecturer in Law, Boston University School of Law
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Former Special Counsel, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission in the Office of the General Counsel
Attorney, Kenneth B. Lerman, P.C.
Chair Business Law section of the Connecticut Bar Association
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Honorary Fellow, Society For Advanced Legal Studies; Former Member, Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange
Executive Associate Dean, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Member, American Law Institute Consultative Groups for the Restatement of the Law on Corporate Governance and the Project on Principles of Government Ethics; Former Corporate Laws Committee Member, American Bar Association; Co-Chair, Task Force on the Impact of Federal Government Initiatives
Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Former Bristow Fellow, Office of the Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice; Former Judicial Clerk, Honorable. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, United States Court of Appeals
Partner and Co-Founder, Shapiro Arato Bach LLP
Former Federal Prosecutor, Southern District New York; Former Clerk, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States; Former Clerk, Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Rupert and Lillian Radford Chair in Law and Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
Executive Committee, American Bar Association, Section of International Law; Former President, SMU Law School Institute of International Banking and Finance
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Adviser Restatement of the Law (Third), Agency, American Law Institute; Former Chair Section on Securities Regulation, Association of American Law School
Joseph is a Duke Law professor whose scholarly research includes issues of gun rights and regulation.
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Matthew is Professor of Health Sciences and Epidemiology at Northeastern University, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Co-Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC).
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Katrina’s proposed bill, “Donna’s Law,” would create a voluntary “do-not-sell” gun list in Louisiana for people who fear they are a danger to themselves or others. The legislation is named in honor of Brees’ mother, Donna Nathan, who died by suicide.
Brannon is a professor of law at Samford University who teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law, including a casebook on firearm law.
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Stephen is a professor of law at Quinnipiac who has written extensively on the First and Second Amendments.
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Carol is a professor emeritus of law and organization at Yale and a leading property scholar.
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Jens is the director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. He has written extensively about gun violence prevention.
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Jeff is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke and the principal investigator of a multi-state study on firearms laws, mental illness and the prevention of violence.
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Sandra is an attorney and activist whose brother, a Chicago policeman, was murdered 10 years ago.
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Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School and a professor in Yale’s School of Management. He is the author of many books, including The New York Times best-seller, “Super Crunchers.” He is a contributor to Forbes, the public radio program Marketplace, and The New York Times.
Vars is the Ira Drayton Pruitt Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Alabama, where he specializes in mental health law. He works with numerous suicide-prevention organizations and is a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Gun Violence.
The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has agreed to exhibit this symposium, related law review articles and historical papers in the permanent collection of its virtual museum and archive at the SEC Historical Society website.
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