PROFESSOR SARAH WILLIAMS WRITES ON CONGRESSIONAL TRADING FOR THE COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL BLUE SKY BLOG
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.” Her blog submission was published in January 2024 and is available here.
Professor Williams was invited by the CLS Blue Sky Blog to submit a short piece summarizing her views on Congressional insider trading. In her blog post, Professor Williams characterizes insider trading law as the Weird Barbie of securities regulation. She asserts that the registration provisions of the federal securities laws currently provide a disclosure framework and meaningful oversight for Congressional trading that should be utilized as a regulatory tool. The blog post is based on the research and findings of her article, “Regulating Congressional Insider Trading: The Rotten Egg Approach,” which is forthcoming in Cardozo Law Review and available in draft here.
Professor Sarah Williams is an Assistant Professor at Penn State Dickinson Law; her research focuses on the intersection of federal securities regulation and accounting. Prior to joining Dickinson Law, Professor Williams practiced law as a securities regulator. She was Deputy Director at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and Associate General Counsel at NASD, now FINRA. She spent several years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, serving as staff attorney and branch chief in its Division of Enforcement, then as Counsel to SEC Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr. Professor Williams began her legal career as an associate at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C.
Professor Sarah Williams Writes on Congressional Trading for the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog