College of Law

Publications

Articles, Essays & Book Reviews

• Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. ___ (2010) (with James Cox and Randall Thomas)
• On Regulating Conflict of Interests in the Credit Rating Industry, 13 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y ___ (2010)
• Deterring “Double-Play” Manipulation in Financial Crisis: Increasing Transaction Cost as a Regulatory Tool, 35 N.C. J. Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 137 (2009) (with Rujing Meng)
• Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions? Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (2009) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas)
• There Are Plaintiffs and . . . There Are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 355 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas)
• The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation—Can It Alleviate Downward Price Pressure from Negative Earnings Shocks?, 5 Rutgers Bus. L.J. 1 (2008)

Presentations

• The Role of Institutional Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Class Actions, Conference on the Future of Securities Fraud Litigation, Financial Economics Institute
  Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA (Feb. 2008)
• Should Institutions Lead Securities Class Actions?—Empirical Evidence, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law (Jan. 2008)
• The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation—Can It Alleviate Downward Price Pressures from Negative Earnings Shocks?, 24th Annual European Association of Law and Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark (Sept. 2007)
• Cross-Margining between Futures and Options, Conference on Financial Futures, Changsha, China (Nov. 1997)