Corporate Governance

The Race to the Bottom and Covering Cases: SEC v. Cuban

By J. Robert Brown

The Race to the Bottom still has the rare distinction of combining the work of faculty and students.  For students, working on the Blog provides an opportunity to write in a pithy fashion about important developments in the corporate governance area.  

Another way to enhance the pedagogical value of the Blog and to provide new and interesting content is to identify ongoing cases that raise corporate governance or related issues and have students follow the case.  Posts can be written on any new developments, including new filings in the case.  This Blog covered the criminal case against David Stockman until the case was terminated by the Government.  It is currently covering the civil suit against Chiquita arising out of the company's payments to guerillas in Columbia.  

Today we add another case, SEC v. Mark Cuban.  Cuban is the sometimes controversial owner of the Dallas Mavericks.  With a brief already filed by an illustrious group of faculty, the case may push the boundaries of insider trading law.  We will deliver over the next couple of days several posts on the case, all written by students. 

Full post as published by The Race to the Bottom on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).