What Matters in Corporate and Securities Scholarship?

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2026-10-13 16:30:00 2026-10-13 17:30:00 What Matters in Corporate and Securities Scholarship? Event Description Corporate and securities scholars enjoy a special role as producers of research that is intellectually and editorially independent, but who can also be in conversation with practitioners, market participants, regulators, and courts. Yet in serving, challenging, informing, and understanding these actors and institutions, scholars collectively face considerable resource constraints in the production of new knowledge. There are relatively few such people, after all, and each is limited in the amount of research he or she can produce over a year or a career. Those factors—proximity to institutional and market power and constrained resources—call for corporate and securities scholars, collectively and individually, to decide what matters. That is, to what projects should the academy and its members allocate their limited research resources? This lecture will shed light on that decision-making with a review of how corporate and securities scholarship might matter to the broader world, to the legal academy, and to individual researchers. This review will include results from a topical study of approximately 12,000 corporate and securities papers published in U.S. law reviews over the last half century.Speaker’s Bio:Andrew Jennings teaches corporate law, securities regulation, and M&A and serves as faculty director of Emory Law’s William and Jane Carney Center for Business and Transactional Law. His research focuses on corporate governance and compliance, securities regulation, and white-collar crime.Jennings was previously an assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, a lecturer in law and teaching fellow for the Corporate Governance & Practice program at Stanford Law School, and a scholar in residence at Duke Law School. He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Helene N. White of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he handled M&A and corporate governance matters, and at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where his practice included criminal defense and investigations as well as civil litigation Professor Jennings’s scholarship has been featured in the Duke Law Journal, Fordham Law Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law, Yale Journal on Regulation, and Washington University Law Review, among other publications. He earned degrees from Hampden-Sydney College and Duke University School of Law, where he concurrently earned a master’s degree in economics while serving as executive editor of the Duke Law Journal. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Jennings has served as an expert witness in business-related litigation and is the host of the Business Scholarship Podcast, which features interviews with legal, accounting, finance, and other scholars. He is also the creator of KFilings.com, a tool that generates email alerts for relevant SEC filings.Reading Materials. Moot Courtroom School of Law School of Law School of Law America/New_York public