Dickinson Law Faculty Impact

February 2024 — Professor Sarah J. Williams shared her experiences working with George H. Diacont, CPA, at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) in a biography of the regulatory paladin that will appear in the June 2024 issue of the Accounting Historians Journal. Professor Williams worked with Mr. Diacont on a financial fraud investigation while serving as a staff attorney in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. She later joined him at the PCAOB after he was named as its first Director of the Division of Registration and Inspections. Full story

January 2024 — Professor Sarah Williams accepted an invitation from Columbia Law School’s blog on corporations and the capital markets to submit a conversational item on her views on Congressional insider trading, based on her forthcoming article, “Regulating Congressional Insider Trading: The Rotten Egg Approach.” Full story

November 2023 — Professor Sarah Williams has accepted an offer from Cardozo Law Review to publish her recent article, “Regulating Congressional Insider Trading — The Rotten Egg Approach.” Full story

October 2023 — Professor Sarah Williams has been invited to share her scholarship agenda as part of a panel of “Up and Coming Scholars” during the November 9 and 10 Symposium on the Future of ESG, hosted by the Institute of Law and Economics and Journal of Business Law at Penn Carey Law. The Symposium honors the scholarship and influence of Penn Cary Law’s Professor Jill E. Fisch. Full story

June 2023 — Professor Sarah Williams participated in a hybrid celebration of Juneteenth, hosted by Penn State Health’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on June 19, 2023. Professor Williams participated in an engaging reflection of the holiday through the exploration of topics that included the racial wealth gap, civil rights laws, and reparations. The event was a sincere celebration of that day in 1865 when the rule of law ending slavery in Confederate states was enforced by Union soldiers marching into Galveston Bay, Texas. Full story

June 2023 — Professor Sarah Williams attended the 2023 National Business Law Scholars Conference held June 15-16 at the University of Tennessee College of Law. She presented her current work-in-progress, “Regulating Congressional Insider Trading: The Rotten Egg Approach.” This research project contemplates the use of the disclosure provisions of the federal securities laws, rather than its antifraud provisions, to address concerns of possible insider trading by members of Congress. Full story

November 2022 — Professor Sarah Williams has accepted an invitation to serve as a discussant at the March 2022 Research Roundtable on Capitalism & the Rule of Law, sponsored by the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. Full story

October 2022 — Professor Sarah Williams accepted an invitation from Columbia Law School’s blog on corporations and the capital markets to submit a conversational summary of her upcoming article, “Regulatory Personhood: The Elixir for Redundancy Between the SEC and the PCAOB.” Full story

October 2022 — Professor Sarah Williams has accepted an offer from St. John’s Law Review to publish her recent article, “Regulatory Personhood: The Elixir for Redundancy Between the SEC and the PCAOB.” Her article will appear in print in the fall of 2023. Full story

July 2022 — Professor Sarah Williams has been appointed by the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar to serve on its Attorney/Client Arbitration Board (ACAB). As a member of this standing committee, Prof. Williams will participate in overseeing the services that the D.C. Bar provides to its members and their clients to resolve disputes about legal fees. She joins the ACAB Board after serving as a volunteer arbitrator in its fee dispute resolution program. Read more