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June 1, 2016Joan MacLeod Heminway
Crowdfunding and the Public/Private Divide in U.S. Securities Regulation
The origination and expansion of crowdfunding as a capital-raising tool has been a hot topic on the street and in the media and the academy for a few years now. In less than ten years, this fusion of social media and traditional corporate finance—a mode of corporate finance through which firms raise investment capital by reaching out over the Internet to a broad, undifferentiated mass of potential investors—grew from a creative impulse to a movement that catalyzed federal legislative action. Its socio-legal bounds are as yet relatively untested. It seems that crowdfunding offers something to nearly everyone.
November 1, 2019Kenneth Geisler II
Hacking Wall Street: Reconceptualizing Insider Trading Law For Computer Hacking and Trading Schemes
Kenneth Geisler II: Current securities law is ill-equipped to deal with computer hackers. He says unlike the typical defendants in insider trading cases, hackers owe no fiduciary duty to shareholders. He argues the SEC has relied on a novel theory of liability that treats hacking and trading as a form of deception.