In taking over a big portion of our Legal Environment of Business core course this year, I added a chapter from our Jentz & Miller text  at the end on Corporate Governance and Securities/Finance Law.  As fate would have it, tomorrow we are consolidating all our b-law classes into one auditorium session as my guest lecturer on that topic is the Chief Counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission coming in from Washington, DC.  Its a rare opportunity for our students I was able to arrange through a business contact.

Our Finance (and Accounting) faculty, too, are very interested in our developing a course on securities/finance law.  As they say, they can teach financial management, but not the new rules that have changed so much the past few years.  I have held off on this for awhile because of the new laws, rules (and court rulings) still in flux and the absence of good textbooks that are up to date on the subject.  I am hopeful some things will be coming out in the next year or two.   As a corporate board member of a public corporation, I deal with SEC counsel and these issues seemingly every month.  Its quite a complex process.

As for topics in either a couple of course sessions or a more extended course, at the undergraduate level just giving them the basics of the key acts and areas below are a start.  You'll need to decide based on your curriculum how deep you want to go in each.  I hope this is helpful.

KEY U.S. SECURITIES LAWS AND REFERENCES

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission www.sec.gov
Securities Act of 1933    15 U.S.C. §77a et. seq.
Securities Act of 1934    15 U.S.C. §78a et. seq.
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995    Pub. L. 104-67, 109 Stat. 737
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002   Pub.L. 107-204, 116 Stat. 745,
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010
       Pub.L. 111-203, H.R. 4173 


Best wishes,

Henry  

Henry Lowenstein, PhD
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E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration
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My law department has just been asked by the finance department at my school to help them in creating a new course integrating legal aspects related to financial markets. Any propositions of possible legal course content and teaching materials would be welcome.
Gerlinde


Le 20 avr. 2011 à 17:32, "Petty, Ross" <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :

> I agree and finance law section would be useful.  Finance is typically
> (except perhaps recently) one of the most popular business majors.
> Having a section that could work on teaching materials and perhaps a
> finance law elective would be terrific.  This would complement what we
> try to do in the Marketing and Sport Law section and most if not all
> other sections for their particular areas.
>
> Ross D. Petty
> Professor of Marketing Law
> Zwerling Family Term Chair
> Babson College
> Babson Park, MA 02457
> (781) 239-5529
>
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> NYT, B-1, Wednesday, 20 April
>
> It might not be a bad idea to have an ALSB section focused on financial
> fraud.