Expertise
Business Associations, Corporations, Economics & the Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities, White Collar Crime
Biography
Michael Guttentag’s scholarship focuses primarily on securities regulation. He has used a variety of methods to better understand how financial markets should be regulated, including conducting experiments and developing mathematical models. Prior to his career in academia, Michael Guttentag worked as an executive in the public and private sectors, where he held senior management positions in the Internet, entertainment, and financial services industries. From 2005 to 2008, he was a member of the faculty of the Boyd School of Law, UNLV, and has visited at the Emory University School of Law, UCLA School of Law, and the University of Southern California Law School. He joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 2008. Guttentag is a member of the American Law and Economics Association, the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and the Bar of the State of California.
Publications, Research and Related Material
Courses Taught
- Business Associations
- Empirical Methods in Law
- Securities Regulation
- Business Strategy for Lawyers
Links
Education
- AB, Harvard College
- MBA, with distinction, Harvard Business School
- JD, Yale Law School, Olin Scholar of Law and Economics
Selected Scholarship
- Law and Surplus: Opportunities Missed, 607 Utah Law Review (2019)
- Selective Disclosure and Insider Trading, 69 Florida Law Review 519 (2017)
- Evolutionary Analysis in Law: On Disclosure Regulation, 48 Arizona State Law Journal 963 (2016)
- On Requiring Public Companies to Disclose Political Spending, 2014 Columbia Business Law Review 593 (2014)
- Patching a Hole in the JOBS Act: How and Why to Rewrite the Rules that Require Firms to Make Periodic Disclosures, 88 Indiana Law Journal (2013)
- Stumbling into Crime: Stochastic Process Models of Accounting Fraud in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF CRIMINAL LAW, A. Harel, K. Hylton, eds., Edward Elgar (2011)
- Brandeis’ Policeman: Results from a Laboratory Experiment on Corporate Fraud (with Christine Porath and Samuel Fraidin), 5 The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2008)
- Accuracy Enhancement, Agency Costs, and Disclosure Regulation, 3(2) The Review of Law and Economics 15 (2007)
Contact
Burns 325
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(o) 213.736.1168
(f) 213.380.3769
