Securities Law in the Supreme Court

Abstract

Adam C. Pritchard and Robert B. Thompson will discuss their book, A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court, recently-published by the Oxford University Press. The book goes behind the curtain to see how securities law gets made at the Supreme Court, relying on the justices\u27 internal correspondence, memoranda and interviews with law clerks to see how the ideologies and personalities of the individual justices have shaped the path of securities law. Pritchard and Thompson will also discuss the implications of that history for the future of securities law in the Supreme Court and the modern administrative state. Speaker Bios Adam C. Pritchard is the Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, where he teaches corporate and securities law. His research focuses on securities class actions, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement and the history of securities law in the US Supreme Court. He is the author, with Stephen J. Choi, of Securities Regulation: Cases and Analysis, currently in its sixth edition. Robert B. Thompson teaches courses in the corporate and securities area, including mergers and limited liability. He joined the Georgetown faculty in 2010 after visiting in 2009-10. Previous positions include service as the New York Alumni Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Professor of Management at Vanderbilt University and the George Alexander Madill Professor of Law at Washington University. He has visited at New York University and Northwestern University and has taught intensive courses at the University of Sydney. He has authored or co-authored casebooks on corporations and on mergers, treatises on Close Corporations and Oppression of Minority Shareholders and LLC Members, and more than 50 articles. Thompson has testified before committees of Congress, a state legislature and the New York Stock Exchange. He has served since 1991 as editor of the Corporate Practice Commentator, served as an adviser for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Agency and chaired two sections of the Association of American Law Schools