Quinnipiac to Host Insider Trading Case Symposium

NORTH HAVEN, Connecticut – Sept. 20, 2023 – Quinnipiac University will host an, “Insider Trading Symposium: Texas Gulf Sulphur at 55,” on Friday, Sept. 29.

The symposium will take place from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Ceremonial Courtroom at the School of Law Center on the North Haven Campus, 370 Bassett Road.

The symposium will explore the first court case on insider trading: Securities and Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur, Inc., decided by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1968.
“As a result of the lack of guidance from Congress and the Securities Exchange Commission on what constitutes insider trading, courts have tried to define and establish a test to determine what insider trading is,” said symposium coordinator and panelist Marilyn J. Ford, QU’s Neil H. Cogan Public Service Professor of Law.

Fifty-five years after the landmark decision, a distinguished panel of national experts will consider the “impact of the landmark case and explore the historical development of insider trading as a violation of law and the doctrinal importance of Texas Gulf Sulphur in “all insider trading cases brought in the past, the present, and those that will be brought in the future,” Ford added.

The panel also includes James Barratt, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society; Andrew Calamari, partner at Finn Dixon & Herling and former New York Regional Director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Peter Eikenberry, former associate attorney at White & Case, partner at Seyfarth Shaw, vice president of the Federal Bar Counsel, and currently a fellow with the New York Bar Foundation; Howard Fischer, partner at Moses Singer LLC, co-chair of the Securities Dispute Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Disputes Resolution Section, and former senior trial counsel for the Securities & Exchange Commission; Robert Fiske, partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, former United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, president of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on the Federal Judiciary; Kathleen Graham, executive director of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society; Gene Ingoglia, partner at Allen & Overy, and former Federal Prosecutor in the Southern District of New York ; Donald Langevoort, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center; Kenneth B. Lerman, P.C., and chair of the Business Law section of the Connecticut Bar Association; Jonathan R. Macey, professor of law, Yale Law School; Donna Nagy, professor of law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law; Adam C. Pritchard, professor of law, University of Michigan Law School; Alexandra A.E. Shapiro, partner and co-founder of Shapiro Arato Bach LLP, and former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York; Marc I. Steinberg, professor of law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law; and Robert B. Thompson, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the School of Law and Quinnipiac Law Review and co-sponsored by the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society, the Connecticut Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. It will be held in person as well as on YouTube Live. Register here.