PROFESSOR WILLIAMS TO PRESENT HER LEGAL RESEARCH AT THE 2022 NATIONAL BUSINESS LAW SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
May 2022 — Professor Sarah Williams has accepted an invitation to present her work-in-progress, Regulatory Personhood: The Elixir For Auditor Oversight Redundancy Between the SEC and the PCAOB, at the 2022 National Business Law Scholars Conference (NBLSC) to be held June 16 and 17 at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. This annual conference draws legal scholars from across the U.S. and around the world.
Professor Williams’ work-in-progress will be the second installment in her series of publications regarding the regulation of public company auditors in the United States. Her first publication in the series, The Alchemy of Effective Auditor Oversight (25 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1089 (2022)), considered processes by which audit firms are selected for regulatory oversight. At the upcoming NBLSC, Professor Williams will present her current research exploring the redundancy between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board with respect to enforcement authority. Professor Williams is honored to present her work before this distinguished group of business law scholars.
Professor Williams current serves as an Assistant Professor at Penn State Dickinson Law, where 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, serving in senior positions at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Office of General Counsel at NASD (now FINRA), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Professor Williams began her legal career as an associate lawyer at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. She serves as a volunteer arbitrator for the D.C. Bar.