This year’s Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop, which was co-founded and is co-organized by Professor Verity Winship, will take place remotely as a summer workshop series. The workshop will occur every Wednesday from 12-1 p.m. EDT throughout the summer, with sessions featuring paper presentations as well as more informal discussions with lawyers, judges, and others. If you’d like to be on the email list for this workshop series, please fill out this form. 

Workshop Schedule

• May 27: Discussion of Professor James Park’s book The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Became a Problem for Public Companies with commentary by Professor Verity Winship
• June 3: Discussion about insider trading with Professor Donna Nagy, focusing on the STOCK Act and her article entitled Chiarella v. United States and its Indelible Impact on Insider Trading Law
• June 10: Discussion about Delaware corporate law with Vice Chancellor Travis Laster and Professor Afra Afsharipour
• June 17: Discussion with Professor Andrew Jennings about his article entitled State Securities Enforcement with commentary by Professor Amanda Rose
• June 24: Discussion about SEC whistleblowing with Mary Inman of Constantine Cannon and Professor Urska Velikonja
• July 1:  TBD
• July 8: Reflecting on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act on its 25th Birthday; A Discussion with Professor Ann Lipton, Laura Posner of Cohen Milstein, and Audra Solloway at Paul Weiss
• July 15: A discussion about online teaching of business-related courses with Professors Jennifer Reise, Elizabeth Pollman, and Nina Kohn

The topics for the sessions after July 15 will be posted in the next few weeks. 

This workshop is co-sponsored by the University of Richmond School of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, UCLA School of Law, and Boston University School of Law.

If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Erickson at jerickso@richmond.edu, Verity Winship at vwinship@illinois.edu, or Jim Park at james.park@law.ucla.edu.