Margaret V. Sachs | |
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Education | Harvard University, B.A. Harvard Law School, J.D. |
Occupation | Law professor |
Employer | University of Georgia |
Notable work | Securities Litigation and Enforcement: Cases and Materials (with Donna M. Nagy and Richard Painter) |
Title | Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law Emerita |
Website | https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/margaret-v-sachs |
Margaret V. Sachs is an American lawyer and professor emerita at the University of Georgia, where she was the Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law. [1] Sachs specialised in corporate law and securities law. [1]
Sachs received a B.A. from Harvard University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. [1]
Sachs joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in 1990, where she taught corporate law and securities law until her retirement in 2018. [1] She is the co-author of a securities litigation and enforcement casebook with Donna M. Nagy and Richard Painter. [1] Sachs is a member of the American Law Institute. [2]
She served on the executive committees of the corporations and security regulation sections of the Association of American Law Schools. [3]
Research published by Sachs covers topics including SEC Rule 10b-5, [4] [5] [6] [7] freedom of contract, [8] women in corporate law teaching, [9] fraud on the market, [10] and SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. [11]