On Friday, March 5th, Professor J. Scott Colesanti will be speaking at the St. John's University School of Law symposium, "The Fall of the Economy." Professor Colesanti will present a paper titled "In Favor of a 'Bail-In': How Government Money Might Better Be Used to Rescue a Stock Market" during a panel on the government responses to the economic crisis.

On October 30th, Assistant Professor J. Scott Colesanti will be presenting a paper and sitting on a panel at the Chapman University School of Law Symposium, "The 80th Anniversary of the Great Crash of 1929: Law, Markets, and the Role of the State."

This legal symposium features a roster of international scholars and has California Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez as its keynote speaker. Professor Colesanti's paper is titled, "The Utility of Stock Market 'Circuit Breakers' and Related Attempts at Curtailing Volatility."

Professor J. Scott Colesanti will be a speaker on the "Ponzi Schemes and Securities Fraud" panel at the Nassau County Bar Association June 1, 2009.

An "Emerging Issues Analysis" authored by Professor J. Scott Colesanti has been affixed to the Lexis/Nexis version of the U.S. Supreme Court case that defines insider trading. The commentary is titled "Insider Trading and Why Materiality May Someday Become Immaterial" and it appears before United States v. O'Hagan, 521 U.S. 642 (1997). The piece discusses how traditional, threshold requirements of proving insider trading have become subjugated to circumstantial considerations of timing and noteworthy profits.

Professor J. Scott Colesanti authored the following article in The New York Law Journal.

The SEC's Comment Policy and the Economic Crisis
February 20, 2009

EXCERPT:
As the Obama administration seeks to counter the thousand natural shocks that it is heir to, there expectedly springs an optimism that seeks to ignore that which cannot be undone. For as the grand Bard of Avon advised, "What's gone and what's past help should be past grief." But then again, Shakespeare probably never sank his savings into an exotic investment marketed via a questionable analyst rating or watched helplessly as short sellers pitted his portfolio.