Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999, Professor Langevoort was the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1981. The courses Professor Langevoort teaches are Contracts, Securities Regulation, various seminars on corporate and securities issues, and Corporations. Professor Langevoort has received the the Frank Flegal Teaching Award at Georgetown and the Paul J. Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching at Vanderbilt. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan Law School and a lecturer at the Washington College of Law, American University. After practicing for two years at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., he joined the staff of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission as Special Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel. Professor Langevoort is the co-author, with Professors James Cox and Robert Hillman, of Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Aspen Law & Business), and the author of a treatise entitled Insider Trading: Regulation, Enforcement and Prevention (West Group). He has also written many law review articles, a number of which seek to incorporate insights from social psychology and behavioral economics into the study of corporate and securities law and legal ethics. Professor Langevoort has testified numerous times before Congressional committees on issues relating to insider trading and securities litigation reform.

Scholarship

Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers

Donald C. Langevoort, What Were They Thinking? State of Mind Puzzles in Insider Trading (working paper). [Gtown Law] [SSRN]

Books

James D. Cox, Robert W. Hillman, Donald C. Langevoort & Ann M. Lipton, Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 10th ed. 2022 & 2022-2023 Supp.). [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Donald C. Langevoort, Institute for Law and Economic Policy 29th Annual Symposium: “Regulating Upheavals in the Securities Markets and Boardrooms”, Honoring Joel Seligman, 100 Wash. U. L. Rev. vii-xii (2023). [HEIN] [W]

U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

Brief for Amici Curiae Law and Business Professors in Support of Respondent, Slack Techs. v. Pirani, No. 22-200 (U.S. Mar. 6, 2023).  [WWW]

Book Chapters & Collected Works

Donald C. Langevoort, Global Behavioral Compliance, in Corporate Compliance on a Global Scale: Legitimacy and Effectiveness 217-236 (Stefano Manacorda & Francesco Centonze eds., Cham, Switz.: Springer 2022).
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