PROFESSOR WILLIAMS PRESENTS HER CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT ON CONGRESSIONAL SECURITIES TRADING AT THE 2023 NATIONAL BUSINESS LAW SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
June 2023 — Professor Sarah Williams presented her current work-in-progress, “Regulating Congressional Insider Trading: The Rotten Egg Approach,” at the 2023 National Business Law Scholars Conference held June 15-16 at the University of Tennessee College of Law. She explored the use of the disclosure provisions of the federal securities to address ongoing concern that members of Congress might be leveraging non-public information obtained in connection with their legislative duties for their personal gain by trading in the securities markets. Prof. Williams also outlined the potential benefits of using a disclosure-based scheme of regulation to deter such activity. The conference attendees represented an impressive group of renown securities scholars and Prof. Williams was honored to have the opportunity to present her scholarship to that audience.
Sarah J. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law with over 25 years of experience as a securities regulator. She has served as Deputy Director at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Commissioner’s Counsel and Enforcement Branch Chief at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Associate General Counsel at NASD (now FINRA). She previously authored “The Alchemy of Effective Auditor Regulation,” 25 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 1089 (2022), and “Regulatory Personhood: The Elixir for Redundancy Between the SEC and the PCAOB,” forthcoming 97 ST. JOHN’S L. REV. (2023).