Margaret Sachs

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Margaret V. Sachs
Education Harvard University, B.A.
Harvard Law School, J.D.
Occupation Law professor
Employer University of Georgia
Notable workSecurities Litigation and Enforcement: Cases and Materials (with Donna M. Nagy and Richard Painter)
TitleRobert 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]

Life and career

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law Emerita". University of Georgia School of Law. Retrieved November 28, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Professor Margaret V. Sachs". American Law Institute. Retrieved November 28, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Margaret V. Sachs retires" (PDF). University of Georgia School of Law. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
  4. ↑ The Relevance of Tort Law Doctrines to Rule 10b-5: Should Careless Plaintiffs be Denied Recovery?, 71 Cornell L. Rev. 96 (1985), reprinted in 1987 Sec. L. Rev. 113.
  5. ↑ Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction for Implied Rule 10b-5 Actions: The Emperor Has No Clothes, 49 Ohio St. L.J. 559 (1988).
  6. ↑ The International Reach of Rule 10b-5: The Myth of Congressional Silence, 28 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 677 (1990).
  7. ↑ Are Local Governments Liable Under Rule 10b-5? Textualism and Its Limits, 70 Wash. U. L.Q. 19 (1992).
  8. ↑ Freedom of Contract: The Trojan Horse of Rule 10b-5, 51 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 879 (1994), reprinted in 37 Corp. Prac. Commentator 103 (1995).
  9. ↑ Women in Corporate Law Teaching: A Tale of Two Generations, 65 Md. L. Rev. 666 (2006)
  10. ↑ Superstar Judges As Entrepreneurs: The Untold Story Of Fraud-On-The-Market, 48 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1207 (2015).
  11. ↑ Unintended Consequences: The Link between Judge Friendly's Texas Gulf Sulphur Concurrence and Recent Supreme Court Decisions Misconstruing Rule 10b-5, 71 SMU L. Rev. 947 (2018).


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