Donald C. Langevoort

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All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress

• Donald C. Langevoort, “Fine Distinctions” in the Contemporary Law of Insider Trading, Colum. Bus. L. Rev. (forthcoming).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort & Robert B. Thompson, Redrawing the Public-Private Boundaries in Entrepreneurial Capital-Raising, (working paper).    [SSRN]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Lies Without Liars? Janus Capital and Conservative Securities Jurisprudence, (working paper).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law]

Books

• Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Donald C. Langevoort, James D. Cox & Robert W. Hillman eds., New York: Aspen Publishers 6th ed. 2009 & Supp. 2010).    [BOOK]
• Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Donald C. Langevoort, James D. Cox & Robert W. Hillman eds., New York: Aspen Publishers 5th ed. 2006).    [BOOK]
• Securities Regulation: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms (Donald C. Langevoort, James D. Cox & Robert W. Hillman eds., New York: Aspen Publishers 2004-2006) (publishing annual editions).   
• Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Donald C. Langevoort, James D. Cox & Robert W. Hillman eds., New York: Aspen Publishers 4th ed. 2004).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Insider Trading: Regulation, Enforcement and Prevention (St. Paul, Minn.: West 2002 & Supp. 2004).    [BOOK]
• Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Donald C. Langevoort, James D. Cox & Robert W. Hillman eds., Gaithersburg, Md.: Aspen Law & Business 3d ed. 2001).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

• Donald C. Langevoort & Robert B. Thompson, “Publicness” in Contemporary Securities Regulation, 101 Geo. L.J. 337-386 (2013).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Getting (Too) Comfortable: In-house Lawyers, Enterprise Risk, and the Financial Crisis, 2012 Wis. L. Rev. 495-519 (2012).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Chasing the Greased Pig Down Wall Street: A Gatekeeper's Guide to the Psychology, Culture, and Ethics of Financial Risk Taking, 96 Cornell L. Rev. 1209-1246 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Commentary: Puzzles About Corporate Boards and Board Diversity, 89 N.C. L. Rev. 841-854 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Psychological Perspectives on the Fiduciary Business, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 995-1010 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The Behavioral Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions, 12 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 65-79 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Brokers as Fiduciaries , 71 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 439-456 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Global Securities Regulation After the Financial Crisis, 13 J. Int'l Econ. L. 799-815 (2010).    [W] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Response, Placebo Statutes?: Sarbanes-Oxley and Ethics Code Disclosures, 96 Va. L. Rev. (In Brief) 9-15 (2010).    [L] [W] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Reading Stoneridge Carefully: A Duty-Based Approach to Reliance and Third-Party Liability Under Rule 10b-5, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2125-2171 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The SEC and the Madoff Scandal: Three Narratives in Search of a Story, 2009 Mich. St. L. Rev. 899-914.    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Basic at Twenty: Rethinking Fraud on the Market, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 151-198.    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Compared to What? Econometric Evidence and the Counterfactual Difficulty, 35 J. Corp. L. 183-187 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The SEC, Retail Investors, and the Institutionalization of the Securities Market, 95 Va. L. Rev. 1025-1083 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Commentary: Investors, IPOs, and the Internet, 2 Entrepreneurial Bus. L.J. 767-771 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, U.S. Securities Regulation and Global Competition, 3 Va. L. & Bus. Rev. 191-205 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Criminalizatin of Corporate Law: The Impact on Director and Officer Behavior, 2 J. Bus. & Tech. L. 89-90 (2007).    [HEIN] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, On Leaving Corporate Executives "Naked, Homeless and Without Wheels": Corporate Fraud, Equitable Remedies, and the Debate Over Entity Versus Individual Liability, 42 Wake Forest L. Rev. 627-661 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The Social Construction of Sarbanes-Oxley, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 1817-1856 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Federalism in Corporate/Securities Law: Reflections on Delaware, California, and State Regulation of Insider Trading, 40 U.S.F. L. Rev. 879-892 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Internal Controls After Sarbanes-Oxley: Revisiting Corporate Law's "Duty of Care as Responsibility for Systems", 31 J. Corp. L. 949-973 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Opening the Black Box of "Corporate Culture" in Law and Economics, 162 J. Inst'l & Theoretical Econ. 80-96 (2006).    [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Reflections on Scienter (and the Securities Fraud Case Against Martha Stewart that Never Happened), 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1-17 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The SEC as a Lawmaker: Choices About Investor Protection in the Face of Uncertainty, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1591-1626 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Someplace Between Philosophy and Economics: Legitimacy and Good Corporate Lawyering, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1615-1628 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Private Litigation to Enforce Fiduciary Duties in Mutual Funds: Derivative Suits, Disinterested Directors and the Ideology of Investor Sovereignty, 83 Wash. U. L.Q. 1017-1044 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Gaurang Mitu Gulati & Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Fraud by Hindsight, 98 Nw. U. L. Rev. 773-825 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
• Donald C. Langevoort & Gaurang Mitu Gulati, The Muddled Duty to Disclose Under Rule 10b-5, 57 Vand. L. Rev. 1639-1686 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Overcoming Resistance to Diversity in the Executive Suite: Grease, Grit, and the Corporate Tournament, 61 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1615-1643 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Resetting the Corporate Thermostat: Lessons from the Recent Financial Scandals About Self-Deception, Deceiving Others and the Design of Internal Controls, 93 Geo. L.J. 285-317 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Technological Evolution and the Devolution of Corporate Financial Reporting, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1-32 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Managing the "Expectations Gap" in Investor Protection: The SEC and the Post-Enron Reform Agenda, 48 Vill. L. Rev. 1139-1165 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Agency Law Inside the Corporation: Problems of Candor and Knowledge, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1187-1231 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Foreword: Revisiting Gilson and Kraakman’s Efficiency Story, 28 J. Corp. L. 499-502 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Thomas Halen, John Huber & Jeremy Markham, Panel Presentation: Securities Regulation and Corporate Responsibility, 55 Admin. L. Rev. 241-258 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Taming the Animal Spirits of the Stock Markets: A Behavioral Approach to Securities Regulation, 97 Nw. U. L. Rev. 135-188 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Are Judges Motivated to Create "Good" Securities Fraud Doctrine?, 51 Emory L.J. 309-318 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Introduction: Issue on the Harmonization of the Securities Laws, 33 Law & Pol’y Int’l Bus. 439-442 (2002).    [HEIN] [L]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Monitoring: The Behavioral Economics of Corporate Compliance with Law, 2002 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 71-118.    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The Organizational Psychology of Hyper-Competition: Corporate Irresponsibility and the Lessons of Enron, 70 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 968-975 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Cross-Border Insider Trading, 8 J. Fin. Crime 254-263 (2001).    [W]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The Human Nature of Corporate Boards: Law, Norms, and the Unintended Consequences of Independence and Accountability, 89 Geo. L.J. 797-832 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Seeking Sunlight in Santa Fe's Shadow: The SEC's Pursuit of Managerial Accountability, 79 Wash U. L.Q. 449-490 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
• Donald C. Langevoort, When Lawyers and Law Firms Invest in Their Corporate Clients’ Stock, 80 Wash. U. L.Q. 569-587 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Cross-Border Insider Trading, 19 Dick. J. Int'l L. 161-180 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Deconstructing Section 11: Public Offering Liability in a Continuous Disclosure Environment, 63 Law & Contemp. Probs. 45-70 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Taking Myths Seriously: An Essay For Lawyers, 74 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1569-1597 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

• Donald C. Langevoort, Behavioral Approaches to Corporate Law, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law 442-455 (Claire A. Hill & Brett H. McDonnell eds., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar 2012).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Global Securities Regulation After the Financial Crisis, in International Law in Financial Regulation and Monetary Affairs 254-268 (John H. Jackson, Thomas Cottier & Rosa M. Lastra eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The Human Nature of Corporate Boards: Law, Norms, and the Unintended Consequences of Independence and Accountability, in Foundations of Corporate Law 228-236 (Roberta Romano ed., New York: Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press 2d ed. 2010).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Securities Regulation, Entry, in 5 The Oxford International  Encyclopedia of Legal History 92-95 (Stanley N. Katz et al. eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Taming the Animal Spirits of the Stock Markets: A Behavioral Approach to Securities Regulation, in 2 Behavioral Law and Economics 281-334 (Jeffrey J. Rachlinski ed., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar 2009).   
• Donald C. Langevoort, Investor Protection and the Perils of Corporate Publicity: Basic Inc. v. Levinson, in The Iconic Cases in Corporate Law 257-277 (Jonathan R. Macey ed., St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 2008).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Editor's Introduction, in 39 Securities Law Review - 2007 1-22 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Group 2007).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Reflections on Scienter, in Martha Stewart's Legal Troubles 225-240 (Joan MacLeod Heminway ed., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2007).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Editor's Introduction, in 38 Securities Law Review - 2006 1-25 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Group 2006).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort et al., Group Report: Are Heuristics a Problem or a Solution?, in Heuristics and the Law 103-140 (Gerd Gigerenzer & Christoph Engel eds., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press 2006).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Heuristics Inside the Firm: Perspectives from Behavioral Law and Economics, in Heuristics and the Law 87-102 (Gerd Gigerenzer and Christoph Engel eds., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press 2006).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Structuring Securities Regulation in the European Union: Lessons from the U.S. Experience, in Investor Protection in Europe: Corporate Law Making, the MiFID and Beyond 485-505 (Guido Ferrarini & Eddy Wymeersch eds., New York: Oxford University Press 2006).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Editor's Introduction, in 37 Securities Law Review - 2005 1-22 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Group 2005).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The Regulators and the Financial Scandals, in Restoring Trust in American Business 63-70 (Jay William Lorsch, Leslie Berlowitz & Andy Zelleke eds., Cambridge, Mass.: American Academy of Arts & Sciences, MIT Press 2005).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Editor's Introduction, in 36 Securities Law Review - 2004 1-23 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Group 2004).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Half-Truths: Protecting Mistaken Inferences by Investors and Others, in What's Fair: Ethics for Negotiators 397-439 (Carrie Menkel-Meadow & Michael Wheeler eds., San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 2004).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, The Human Nature of Corporate Boards: Laws, Norms, and the Unintended Consequences of Independence and Accountability, in Corporate Governance: Law, Theory, and Policy 337-346 (Thomas W. Joo ed., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2004).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Managing the "Expectations Gap" in Investor Protection: The SEC and the Post-Enron Reform Agenda, in Corporate Governance: Law, Theory and Policy 139-150 (Thomas W. Joo ed., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2004).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Editor's Introduction, in 35 Securities Law Review - 2003 1-23 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Group 2003).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Editor's Introduction, in 34 Securities Law Review - 2002 1-19 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Group 2002).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Seeking Sunlight in Santa Fe's Shadow: The SEC's Pursuit of Managerial Accountability, in 34 Securities Law Review - 2000 243-284 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Group 2002).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Introductory Survey, in 32 Securities Law Review - 2000 ix-xxxi (Donald C. Langevoort ed., St. Paul, Minn.: West Group 2000).    [BOOK]
• Donald C. Langevoort, Organized Illusions: A Behavioral Theory of Why Corporations Mislead Stock Market Investors (and Cause Other Social Harms), in Behavioral Law and Economics 144-167 (Cass R. Sunstein ed., Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press 2000).    [BOOK]

U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

• Brief for Professors James D. Cox, Jill E. Fisch, Donald C. Langevoort, Richard M. Buxbaum, Melvin A. Eisenberg and Hillary A. Sale as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific-Atlanta, No. 06-43 (U.S. June 11, 2007).    [W] [Gtown Law]

Congressional Testimony

• Insider Trading and Congressional Accountability: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on Homeland Sec. & Governmental Affairs, 112th Cong., Dec. 1, 2011 (Statement of Donald C. Langevoort) (CIS No.: Pending).    [WWW]