Publications
Ralph is an author of noted books and treatises, as well as numerous articles for academic and professional journals, and has lectured before a number of associations and institutes. His publications include:
Treatises
- Shareholder Derivative Litigation: Besieging the Board (Law Journal Seminars-Press, 2d ed., 2014)
- Debt Despair & Deliverance: Commentary and Analysis on The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Wolters Kluwer Law &
Business, 2011) - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reporter with Practice Commentary and Analysis, 4 vols. (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2011)
- Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions (Aspen Law & Business, 2011)
- Ferrara on Insider Trading and the Wall (Law Journal Press, 2d ed., 2001)
- Takeovers: Strategic Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions (Aspen Law & Business, 2001)
- Securities Practice: Federal and State Enforcement (Callaghan, 1985 and updates)
- Managing Marketeers: Supervisory Responsibilities of Broker-Dealers 2nd Investment Advisers (CCH, 2000)
- Shareholder Derivative Litigation: Besieging the Board (Law Journal Seminars-Press, 2008 and updates)
- Ferrara on Insider Trading and the Wall (Law Journal Press, 1995 and updates)
- Takeovers II: A Strategist's Manual for Business Combinations in the 1990s (Butterworths, 2d ed., 1993)
- Beyond Arbitration: Designing Alternatives to Securities Litigation (Butterworths, 1991)
- Stockbroker Supervision: Managing Stockbrokers and Surviving Sanctions (Butterworths, 1989)
- Redeeming Fallen Brokers: Managing the Aftermath of Broker-Dealer Enforcement Proceedings (Butterworths, 1988)
- Takeovers: Attack & Survival (Butterworths, 1987)
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Future of Federal Influence in Corporate Governance (Financial, Government & Public Affairs, 1979)
Professional Journals and Periodicals
- "SEC Breakthrough Brings Deja vu: Lorenzo Court Reclaims Expansive Scope of Federal Securities Laws,” The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation (July 17, 2019)
- “SEC Breakthrough Brings Déjà vu: Lorenzo Court Reclaims Expansive Scope of Federal Securities Laws,” Wolters Kluwer Securities Regulation Daily (April 15, 2019)
- “Rotating Mobiles and Fuzzy Boundaries: Managing Parallel Proceedings,” Wolters Kluwer Securities Regulation Daily (December 11, 2018)
- “Going to get it right this time? Aiding and abetting & scheme liability through Lorenzo,” Wolters Kluwer Securities Regulation Daily (November 30, 2018)
- “Transaction Ethics – When Zealous Lurches to Perilous,” Wolters Kluwer Securities Regulation Daily (March 2, 2018)
- “SEC Reform: The Doughnut and the Hole,” Wolters Kluwer Securities Regulation Daily (March 28, 2017)
- “Sour Grapes From Delphi: Judge Rakoff Is At It Again in SEC v. Payton,” Wolters Kluwer Securities Regulation Daily (April 24, 2015)
- “Managing Corporate Crises: A Brief Case Study,” The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Volume 48, Issue 7 (April 8, 2015)
- “Financial Restatements,” Insights, The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, Volume 29, Number 2 (February 2015)
- “When the Camel’s Nose Gets Under the Tent: Fee-Shifting and Forum Selection in Delaware,” Insights The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, Volume 28, Number 7 (July 2014) and The Corporate Governance Advisor, Volume 22, Number 5 (September/October 2014)
- “Whistleblower Anti-Retaliation Provision Does Not Apply Outside the U.S.,” Westlaw Journal Securities Litigation & Regulation, Volume 20, Issue 9 (September 4, 2014)
- “U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Bright-Line Test for Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Securities Laws,” Bloomberg BNA, Volume 20, Number 9, (September 2014)
- “Fine Wine Gets Better with Age: Brophy, Zapata and the Resurrection of State-Law Insider Trading Claims”, CCH Federal Securities Law Reporter, No. 2597 (September 25, 2013)
- “Mary Jo: SEC Enforcement? Go Back to the Future!,” Bloomberg BNA Securities Regulation & Law Report (May 2013)
- “Defending Directors: Cram Sheet,” Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (October 23, 2012)
- “Delaware Chancery Court issues decision on collateral estoppel in derivative suits,” Westlaw Journal Delaware Corporate, Vol. 26, Issue 25 (June 25, 2012)
- “Holding IPOs Hostage to Class Actions: Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in IPOs,” Securities Litigation Report, Vol. 9, Issue 4 (April 2012)
- “Cold Clout: Fiduciary Duties and Controlling Stockholder Freeze-Outs,” BNA Securities Regulation & Law Report (February 27, 2012)
- “Multiple Representations: The SEC v. D&O Insurers,” Bloomberg Law Reports (January 2012)
- “Shareholder Derivative Lawsuits: Getting It Wrong,” Securities Litigation Report (December 2011)
- “When a Storm Warning is Only an Advisory: Construing Statutes of Limitations in Securities Fraud Actions,” Securities Litigation Report (June 2011)
- “Insider Trading Redux: Trust and Confidence versus Trust or Confidence -- Which Is Fraud?,” BNA Securities Regulation and Law Report (May 2011)
- “Virtual Deception: Might Computer Hackers Face Securities Liability?,” Securities Litigation Report (May 2011)
- “Betwixt and Between: Preserving Privilege When Compliance Meets Legal,” Bloomberg Law Reports (April 2011)
- “Who Tore a Hole in the Golden Parachute? Say-on-Pay in a Post-Bailout World,” Bloomberg Law Reports (April 2011)
- “Pills and Peptics: Airgas and Its Impact On Governance in the Boardroom (It's Not All About The Takeover),” Securities Regulation & Law Report (March 28, 2011)
- “Fraud? Foreign Purchase? Forget it! "Foreign-Cubed" and Other Foreign- Issuer Cases After Morrison,” The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation (February 23, 2011)
- “SEC's Cooperation Initiative -- Fiction, Fantasy or Fact?,” Bloomberg Publication (June 2010)
- “Pushing the limits of U.S. securities laws: 'foreign-cubed' ('F-Cubed') cases,” BNA, Inc.'s Securities Regulation & Law Report (March 8, 2010)
- “Next Steps for the SEC,” Directors & Boards Magazine, Annual Report (2009)
- “Unknowingly Intentional: Attributing Liability to Corporations,” Securities Litigation Report (September 2009)
- “Getting Caught in the Strings: SEC and DOJ Parallel Proceedings in Light of US v. Stringer,” Corporate Counsel (2009)
- “SAB No. 99: The Danger of Treating a Bulletin as Binding,” Securities Litigation Report, (2009)
- “SOX 304: An Existential Crisis,” Bloomberg Law Reports—Risk & Compliance Reports Vol. 2 No. 6 (2009)
- “Dropping the Ball: How Mandatory Advancement Provisions Cater to Corporate Crooks,” Bloomberg Law Reports – Corporate Law, Vol. 3, Nos. 5-8 (March 2009)
- “The Call No Attorney Wants to Make: When a Lawyer has the Ethical Duty to Disclose a Mistake to Clients, and Why He Should Embrace Rather than Avoid that Duty Should It Arise,” Law Firm Partnership and Benefits Report (2009)
- “Indemnification in Disneyland? Grossly Negligent Directors and Good Faith in Delaware,” Securities Litigation Report (2009)
- “Waive that Privilege Goodbye: Selective Waiver & the Work Product Doctrine” (2009)
- “Another Cop Patrolling the Insider Trading Beat: The Diamond/Brophy Doctrine and What It Could Mean for Boards of Directors,” Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 4 (Fall 2008)
- “Save U.S. from CFIUS: The Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 and Its Effect on Foreign Investment,” The M&A Lawyer, Vol. 12, Issue 3 (March 2008)
- “Class Action Fairness Act: The Camel Passing Through the Eye of the Needle,” Bloomberg Securities Litigation Report (April 23, 2007)
- “Last Call for Non-proportionate Bar Orders,” Corporate Counselor (2007)
- “Out of Control: Liability Under Section 20 of the Securities Exchange Act,” Bloomberg Securities Litigation Report (2007)
- “There's Nothing Clear (or Funny) about the Duty to Disclose,” BNA, Inc.'s Corporate Counsel Weekly (2007)
- “Crossing the Bright Line: Director and Officer Liability for Corporate Fraud, Bloomberg Law Reports” (January 15, 2007)
- “Class Action Fairness Act: Shall We Commence The Proceedings?,” Thomson/West Securities Litigation Report (December 2006 - January 2007)
- “When the Agent Strays and Principal Pays – Respondeat Superior Liability after Central Bank Decision,” Wall Street Lawyer (December 2006)
- “Mapping a Path to Corporate Liability: The Need for a Resolution on How Liability Is Attributed to Corporations,” BNA, Inc.'s Corporate Accountability
Report (November 10, 2006) “Meeting in Dark Corners and Strange Places: Scheming Between the SEC and the Department of Justice,” BNA, Inc.'s Securities Regulation & Law Report (July 31, 2006) - “A New Era For Corporate Fines,” The Corporate Board (May/June 2006)
- “Practicing At Your Peril: Attorneys Increasingly Face SEC Enforcement Actions and Criminal Prosecutions,” Bloomberg Law Reports (August 2005)
- “The QLCC: A chance to get things right,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Winter 2003)
- “Demise of the business judgment rule?,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Fall 2003)
- “Corporate Governance Digest,” Practising Law Institute and American Management Association's First Annual Directors' Institute on Corporate Governance (September 2003)
- “COSO: The Rise of the Phoenix?,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Summer 2003)
- “Life on top of the ladder,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Spring 2003)
- “Cooperation with a Capital C?,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Winter 2002)
- “Sitting Ducks and Decoys,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Fall 2002)
- “Managing Audit Committee Liability Risk,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Winter 2001)
- “Deputizing Directors: The Last Act?,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Spring 2001)
- “Item 9 Trends: A Window on Regulation FD in Action,” Securities Litigation & Regulation (March 28, 2001)
- “Excuse Me When I Cut In,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Winter 2000)
- “A Workable Audit Committee Charter,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Fall 2000)
- “Deputizing Directors,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Summer 2000)
- “Regulation FD: Fair Disclosure for a Fairer Market?,” International Financial Law Review (June 2000)
- “Board Oversight of SEC Investigations,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Spring 2000)
- “SEC Enforcement Proceedings: Strategic Considerations for When the Agency Comes Calling,” Washington College of Law, American University, Administrative Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Fall 1999)
- “A Threat of Additional Liability,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Fall 1999)
- “The ‘Aircraft Carrier’ and Director Liability,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Summer 1999)
- “Overview of an SEC Enforcement Proceeding,” outline published in connection with 31st Annual Rocky Mountain Securities Conference (May 21, 1999)
- “You Have Been Named in a Class-Action Lawsuit,” Directors & Boards Magazine (Spring 1999)
- “Internal Corporate Investigations and the SEC's Message to Directors in Cooper Co.,” University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Fall 1996)
- “Government Subpoenas and Attorney Files,” The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 27, No. 2 (January 26, 1994)
- “Alternative Dispute Resolution in Class Action Suits,” The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 26, No. 19 (November 10, 1993)
- “Creditors' Committees and Research Departments: Chinese Walls and Related Compliance Issues,” 25th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, Practising Law Institute (November 4-6, 1993)
- “Insider Trading: Emerging Standards of Liability, Fourth Annual Conference on Class and Derivative Litigation in The 1990s: The Current Battleground,” Prentice Hall Law and Business, (October 25-26, 1993)
- “Insider Trading: Law Firms as Targets,” Prentice Hall Law and Business (October 25-26, 1993)
- “Key Issues in Derivative Litigation,” Prentice Hall Law and Business (October 5-26, 1993)
- “The Institutional Investor and Corporate Ownership,” Securities Regulation Law Journal (Winter 1992)
- “Role of Investigative Committees and Special Counsel,” The Corporate Analyst, Vol. 5, No. 1 (November 1992)
- “Securities Market Reform in the Age of Program Trading, Journal of Corporate Disclosure and Confidentiality,” Vol. 3, No. 3 (September 1992)
- “Representing Foreign Individuals in SEC and SRO Proceedings,” International Securities Regulation Report, Vol. 5, No. 3 (January 14, 1992)
- “The Role of Investigative Committees and Special Counsel in the Demand Review Process,” The Dynamics of Corporate Control V, ABA National Institute Seminar (December 5-6, 1991)
- “The Regulations Governing Broking,” International Financial Law Review (December 1991)
- “Hardball! The SEC's New Arsenal of Enforcement Weapons,” The Business Lawyer, Vol. 47, No. 1 (November 1991)
- “Legal Representation in the International Securities Market: Representing a Party or Witness in an SEC or SRO Proceeding,” ALI- ABA/FBA Course of Study (September 23, 1991)
- “Derivative Liability in Securities Law: Controlling Person Liability and Respondeat Superior,” [part of an article published in 40 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1007 (1983)], Securities Law Administration, Litigation, and Enforcement, Selected Articles on Federal Securities Law, Volume III, Section of Business Law, American Bar Association (1991)
- “The Role of Securities Products and Securities Regulation as Catalysts for Market Stability in U.S. Financial Markets,” Fourth International Securities Market Law Encounter (November 15, 1990)
- “Tender Offers - Toughing It Out,” The Second Annual Business Law Symposium (July 13-14, 1990)
- “Protecting the Market - An Overview of Current Regulatory and Enforcement Initiatives,” Annual ALI-ABA/FBA Course of Study (May 3-4, 1990)
- “Legal Representation in the Institutional Securities Market: Representing a Party or Witness in an SEC or SRO Proceeding,” PLI International Securities Markets (March 15-16, 1990)
- “Internal Corporate Investigations and the Attorney-Client Privilege,” 17th Annual Securities Regulation Institute (January 25-26, 1990)
- “Affirmative Duties of a Board When Confronted With a Tender Offer and Defensive Tactics in the Context of Those Duties,” 17th Annual Securities Regulation Institute (January 24-26, 1990)
- “Special Committees of the Board: Dealing with Conflicts of Interest in the Context of Shareholder Derivative Actions,” 17th Annual Securities Regulation Institute (January 24-26, 1990)
- “Tender Offers - Toughing It Out,” PLI Coursebook, Advanced Securities Workshop (August 17-18, 1989)
- “Special Committees of the Board: Dealing with Conflicts of Interest in the Context of Shareholder Derivative Actions,” PLI Coursebook, Advanced Securities Workshop (August 17-18, 1989)
- “Legal Representation in the International Securities Market: Representing a Party or Witness in an SEC or SRO Proceeding,” The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1989) and The Business Lawyer, Vol. 44, No. 4 (August 1989)
- “Broker- Dealer Supervision of Registered Representatives and Branch Office Operations,” The Business Lawyer, Vol. 44, No. 4 (August 1989)
- “Protecting the Market – An Overview of Regulatory Efforts to Combat Market Manipulation,” ALI-ABA/FBA Insider Trading, Fraud and Fiduciary Duties Under the Securities Laws program (May 4-5, 1989)
- “Tender Offers - Toughing It Out,” 9th Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute (April 27, 1989)
- “Special Committee of the Board: Dealing with Conflicts of Interest in the Context of Shareholder Derivative Actions,” 9th Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute (April 27, 1989)
- “SEC Expands Enforcement Role to the International Marketplace,” The National Law Journal (April 24, 1989)
- “Back to Basics: Current Disclosure Issues and Changing Concepts of Materiality after Basic v. Levinson,” Practising Law Institute (November 3, 1988)
- “Tender Offers – Toughing It Out, ALI-ABA Course of Study,” New England Federal Securities Regulation Institute (October 27-28, 1988)
- “Tender Offers – Toughing It Out,” 21st Annual Rocky Mountain State- Federal-Provincial Securities Conference (October 21, 1988)
- “Inside Traders Face Wave of Private Litigation,” The National Law Journal (September 19, 1988)
- “Tender Offers - Toughing It Out,” PLI Law Institute's Advanced Securities Law Workshop (August 18-20, 1988)
- “Laying Out the Basics: A Close-Up View of the Supreme Court Decision in Basic v. Levinson,” American Business Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer 1988)
- “Advising Issuers: Coping with Market Fluctuations,” Eighth Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute (April 27-28, 1988)
- “Danger Points and Defenses for Broker-Dealers,” The National Law Journal (November 9, 1987)
- “Immobilization of the Security Certificate: The U.S. Experience,” Securities Regulation Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Fall 1987)
- “Overview of an SEC Enforcement Proceeding,” PLI Handbook, PLI Securities Enforcement Institute (June 1-2, 1987)
- “Financial Planning By Insurance Companies,” The Review of Financial Services Regulation, Vol. 3, No. 3 (February 4, 1987), reprinted as Marketing Financial Planning Services: Overcoming the Regulatory Hurdles for Insurance Companies, Journal of Insurance Regulation, Vol. 5, No. 4 (June 1987)
- “Banks as Financial Planners,” The Review of Financial Services Regulation, Vol. 2, No. 8 (April 23, 1986)
- “Federal Regulation of Financial Planners,” The Review of Financial Services Regulation, Vol. 2, No. 2 (January 29, 1986)
- “Tender Offer Tactics,” The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 19, No. 2 (January 22, 1986)
- “Developments in the Regulation of Financial Planners,” Practising Law Institute (December 1985)
- “Overview of an SEC Enforcement Action,” 8 Corporation Law Review 306 (Fall 1985)
- “Tender Offer Developments: 1985 Midyear Review,” Legal Times (August 5, 1985)
- “Preventing Insider Trading,” The Listed Company (May 1985)
- “Developments in the Regulation of Financial Planners,” Third Annual Financial Services Institute (March 11, 1985)
- “Prohibiting and Preventing Insider Trading,” submitted to American Stock Exchange Listing Advisory Committee (March 6, 1985)
- “New 'Insider Trading' Act Fails to Define Liability,” New York Law Journal (December 10, 1984)
- “Insider Trading in Transition,” The 23rd Annual Institute, Northwestern University School of Law (October 18, 1984)
- “Opposition to 'Poison Pill' Warrants is Mounting,” Legal Times (October 15, 1984)
- “Should Criminal Courts Enforce Securities Law?,” Legal Times (October 8, 1984)
- “R&D Partnerships: Tax, Securities and Other Issues, Representing High Technology and Start-Up Companies in the 1980s,” University of Colorado School of Law (September 13, 1984)
- “Homogenization of Financial Intermediaries - An Overview of the Revolution,” State Bar of Texas, Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section (August 9, 1984)
- “Banks, Mutual Funds and Other Bank Securities Activities,” The Banking Law Institute, Executive Enterprises, Inc. (June 1984)
- “SEC- CFTC Accord: One Year Later, An Uneasy Peace,” Legal Times (January 30, 1984)
- “Derivative Liability in Securities Law: Controlling Person Liability, Respondeat Superior and Aiding and Abetting,” 40 Washington and Lee Law Review 1007 (Summer 1983)
- “Shelf Registration of SEC Temporary Rule 415,” 5 Corporation Law Review (Fall 1982)
- “Thy Brother's Keeper . . . Controlling Persons and Respondeat Superior Under the Federal Securities Laws,” American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education (September 1982)
- “Legislative and Market Forces Reshape Financial Services Industry,” North Carolina Bar Association Commercial, Banking and Business Law Section (August 1982)
- “The Interplay Between State Corporation and Federal Securities Law - Santa Fe, Singer Burks, Maldonado, Their Progeny & Beyond,” 7 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 1 (1982)
- “Challenging SEC Investigations and Enforcement Actions,” The Securities Law and Enforcement Institute, Legal Times (May 1982)
- “Courts Struggle to Define 'Manipulative' Practices,” Legal Times (May 3, 1982)
- “Legislative and Market Forces Reshape Financial Services Industry,” Business Law Memorandum, ABA Section on Corporation Banking and Business Law (March-April 1982)
- “SEC Tests Waters with Shelf Registration Release,” Legal Times (March 8, 1982)
- “Homogenization of Financial Intermediaries and the Development of New Financial Products, Securities Regulation Corporate and Tax Aspects of Securities Transactions,” The Southwestern Legal Foundation (1982)
- “Tender Offers 1981: Significant Legal Developments,” Legal Times (January 25, 1982)
- “Administrative Disciplinary Proceedings Under Rule 2(e),” The Business Lawyer Vol. 36, No. 4 (July 1981)
- “How to Prepare and Defend Tax Shelter Opinions: Risks and Realities for Lawyers and Accountants,” Law and Business (February-March 1981)
- “Burdens of Proof and Justification: From Hochfelder to Aaron to Steadman,” University of California Securities Regulation Institute (January 1981)
- “The Liability of Tax Practitioners in Tax Shelter Programs - An SEC Perspective,” USC Annual Institute of Federal Taxation (January 1981)
- “Fiduciary Duties of Boards of Directors and Tender Offer Contests for Corporate Control,” Proxy Contests and Battles for Corporate Control, Practising Law Institute (January 1981)
- “The Role of Inside Counsel in the Corporate Accountability Process,” 4 Corporation Law Review 3 (1981)
- “Disclosure of Information Bearing on Management Integrity and Competency - Sliding Down the Slippery Slope of Materiality,” 76 Northwestern University Law Review and Washington University Law Review 555 (1981)
- “Corporate Governance,” 36 The Business Lawyer 759 (1981)
- “A Reappraisal of Santa Fe: Rule 10b-5 and The New Federalism,” 129 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 263 (1980)
- “Financial Futures – Current Issues and Developments, Broker- Dealer Regulation,” American Law Institute/American Bar Association (December 1980)
- “Hochfelder, Aaron, Santa Fe & Burks – A Look at Four Supreme Court Decisions and Their Progeny,” Annual Cooperative Securities Regulation Seminar, Los Angeles County Bar Association (December 1980)
- “The Duty to Disclose Qualitatively Material Information,” PLI Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, Practising Law Institute (November 1980)
- “Rule 10b-5 and the New Federalism,” 53 Wisconsin Bar Bulletin 16 (November 1980)
- “Financial Futures,” Third Annual Commodities Law Institute, IIT - Chicago Kent College of Law (October 1980)
- “Administrative Disciplinary Proceedings Under Rule 2(e) of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Rules of Practice,” American Bar Association Convention (August 1980)
- “The ALI Code - Pros and Cons, Political and Administrative Realities, Securities Regulation, Corporate and Tax Aspects of Securities Transactions,” Southwestern Legal Foundation Symposium (April 1980)
- “SEC and Private Remedies for Securities Laws Violations, Fraud and Fiduciary Debt Under the Federal Securities Laws,” American Law Institute/American Bar Association (April 1980)
- “The Investor, the Corporation and the Commission: New Developments and Tactics in Stockholder Litigation,” Practising Law Institute (March 1980), republished by the University of Detroit School of Law, Continuing Legal Education in Securities Law - Survey of Recent Developments, Practice Guides for Attorneys and Accountants
- “Direct and Ancillary Remedies Under the Federal Securities Laws,” University of California Securities Regulation Institute, San Diego, California (January 1980)
- “Recent Developments and Current Problems: An SEC Perspective,” 12th Annual Rocky Mountain State-Federal Enforcement Conference, Denver,
Colorado (October 1979) - “The Government and Corporate Governance: What It Hears and How it is Responding,” Corporate Governance Practising Law Institute (January-February 1979)
- “The Case for Federal Regulation, Proposed SEC Rules and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Federal or State Regulation of Corporate Governance: the Heightening Battle for Corporate Control,” Law Journal Seminars Press, Inc. (December 1978)
- “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Future of Federal Influence in Corporate Governance, Securities Regulation, Corporate and Tax Aspects of Securities Transactions,” Southwestern Legal Foundation (1978)
- “Saints and Sinners Concluded: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Corporate Conduct Overseas: The U.S. Criminal Laws and International Codes,” Practising Law Institute (1978)
- “Accountants and Bankers: Public Expectations and Professional Accountability,” Journal of Commercial Bank Lending (1978)
- “The Future of Federal Influence on Corporate Governance,” Directors Monthly, National Association of Corporate Directors, Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1978)
- “Run Silent, Run Deep – the Extraterritorial Reach of the Federal Securities Laws, Current Legal Aspects of Doing Business in the European Economic Community,” American Bar Association National Institute (1977)
- “Tradition or Corruption: The Defendants and the Volunteers in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Domestic Questionable Payments Program, Questionable Business Practices,” Practising Law Institute (1977)
- “Saints and Sinners Revisited: The Legislative Approach to Questionable and Illegal Corporate Payments, Fraud, Inside Information and Fiduciary Duty Under Rule 10b-5,” American Law Institute/American Bar Association (1977)
- “Deputizing the Private Sector: the Hired Hand's Search for Sensitive Payments, Fraud, Inside Information and Fiduciary Duty Under Rule 10b-5,” American Law Institute/American Bar Association (1977)
- “Questionable Foreign Payments Decried and Decreed: Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Actions, Fraud, Inside Information and Fiduciary Duty Under Rule 10b-5,” American Law Institute/American Bar Association (1977)
- “Sliding Down the ‘Slippery Slope’: The Securities and Exchange Commission's Formulations of Materiality, the Supreme Court and the Federal Securities Laws: Implications for Liabilities,” American Law Institute/American Bar Association (1977)
- “United States v. the Arab League Boycott: A Pending Case,” Questionable Business Practices (1977)
- “Saints and Sinners: The Legislative Approach to Questionable and Illegal Corporate Payments, Bribes, Kickbacks and Illegal Payments: SEC & IRS Requirements,” Vol. II (1976)
- “Public and Private Enterprise in the United States: Co-existence and Unsteady Equilibrium,” Public and Private Enterprise in Mixed Economies (1974)
- “A Comparative Analysis Treating Co-Existent Public and Private Enterprise in France, Italy, Turkey, Nigeria, United Kingdom and United States,” (Editions published in French, Italian and Turkish) (1974)
- “Administrative Proceedings Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,” 25 Mercer Law Review 671, Lead Articles Issue, Securities Regulation Edition (Spring 1974)
- “Securities and Exchange Commission's Detection of Investigation, and Enforcement of Selected Practices That Impair Investor Confidences in Our Capital Markets,” Howard Law Review, Lead Articles Issue - Securities Regulation Edition (June 1971)