Jay Brown is a law professor with specializations in corporations and corporate governance, business law, administrative law, and securities regulation. He currently teaches at the
University of Denver
The University of Denver (DU) is a private research university in Denver, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1864, it has an enrollment of approximately 5,700 undergraduate students and 7,200 graduate students. It is classified among "R1: D ...
Sturm College of Law
The Sturm College of Law ("Denver Law") is the professional graduate law school of the University of Denver. It is one of two law schools in the state of Colorado. Founded in 1892, the Sturm College of Law was one of the first in America's Mount ...
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Education
Brown earned a B.A. in Government in 1978 from the
College of William & Mary
The College of William & Mary (abbreviated as W&M) is a public university, public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III of England, William III and Queen ...
, a J.D. from
University of Maryland School of Law
The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (formerly University of Maryland School of Law from 1924 to 2011) is the law school of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and is located in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1816, it i ...
in 1980, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Government from
Georgetown University
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in 1984 and 1993 respectively. His dissertation topic was "International Cooperation and Reform of the Japanese Financial Markets."
["CV: J. (Jay) Robert Brown Jr."]
Sturm College of Law web page. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
Career
After holding brief teaching positions at
Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) is a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1787 as Franklin College and later merged with Marshall College in 1853, it is one of the oldest colleges in the United St ...
and
Dickinson School of Law
Penn State Dickinson Law, formerly Dickinson School of Law, is a public law school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is one of two separately accredited law schools of Pennsylvania State University.
History
The Law School offers J.D. and LL.M. ...
, Brown joined the University of Denver in 1988, teaching in the law school and, for a period, in the school of international affairs. He was awarded a
Fulbright Scholarship
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in 1997 and spent six months at the
Kazakhstan
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Institute of Management. From 2000 to 2004, he was an associate dean for academic affairs at the law school. In 2009, he was a visiting professor at
UC Hastings Law School.
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In August 2011, Brown commented on ]NPR
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about the SEC's destruction of documents related to dropped investigations. Brown was quoted as saying, "My initial take on this is it's a tempest in a teapot... What appears to be going on here is the SEC would look at a matter, decide not to bring a case and largely purge the file of documents."
Publications
:(not a comprehensive review of publications)
"Corporate Governance"
Sturm College of Law website link to ''TheRacetotheBottom.org'', a student-faculty blog providing "an analysis of the laws and regulatory measures that govern today's corporations." Brown contributions to the blog include:
:*Examinations of attorney fee
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shifting in corporate bylaw
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s and IPO
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s ''e.g.'
"Fee Shifting in Derivative Suits and the Oklahoma Legislature"
an
Also, a review of executive-compensation clawback
The term clawback or claw back refers to any money or benefits that have been given out, but are required to be returned (clawed back) due to special circumstances or events, such as the money having been received as the result of a financial crim ...
provisions still not promulgated under Dodd-Frank including a look back at the "tepid effort" under the earlier Sarbanes-Oxley. All posted during September 2014.
"Business Roundtable v. SEC: The Necessary Course to Understand the Decision"
an
an
Business Roundtable
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v. SEC", August 29-September 1, 2011
"Book Review: Wang & Steinberg, ''Insider Trading, 3d Edition''"
August 18, 2011.
August 5, 2011, and others about Rajat Gupta
Rajat Kumar Gupta (; born ) is an Indian-American business executive who, as CEO, was the first foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003. In 2012, he was convicted of insider trading and ...
's SEC proceedings in 2011
:a/o 8/18/2011, Brown had a total of 35 entries on the blog archive going back to July 7, 2011,"Entries by J Robert Brown Jr. (35)"
web page. Retrieved 2011-08-18. including also certain related news items lik
August 6, 2011, about the SEC's
Casey stepping down August 5.
"Returning Fairness to Executive Compensation" ''North Dakota Law Review'', Vol. 84 2009; abstract.
*"Opting Only In: Nexus of Contracts and Waiver of Liability Provisions," co-authored with Gopalan, 42 ''Indiana Law Review'' 285 (2009).
"The SEC, Corporate Governance, and Shareholder Access to the Board Room" ''Utah Law Review'' 1339-91 (2008).
"Of Empires, Independents and Captives: Law Blogging, Law Scholarship, and Law School Rankings" U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-04 (2008); abstract.
*"Disclosure, Corporate Governance, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Limits of Disclosure," 57 ''Catholic Law Review'' 45 (Fall 2007).
"Disloyalty without Limits: 'Independent' Directors and the Elimination of the Duty of Loyalty" ''Kentucky Law Journal'' Vol. 95 (2006).
Criticizing the critics: Sarbanes-Oxley and quack corporate governance" ''Marquette Law Review'', 90:309-35 (2006).
*Brown, J. Robert Jr. and Allison Herren Lee, Esq.
"The Neutral Assignment of Judges at the Court of Appeals" 78 ''
Texas Law Review
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'' 1037 (April 2000); article summary at Sturm College of Law website.
"The Great 'Fall': The Consequences of Repealing the Glass-Steagall Act" ''Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance'' 2:1 (Fall 1995) p. 129; table of contents listing.
"Disruptive Technological Change and a Paradigm Shift in Board Composition" ''muconf.missouri.edu'', n.d.
''Opening Japan's financial markets''(London/New York: Routledge, 1994) ; catalog entry at
National Library of Australia
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References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
College of William & Mary alumni
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law alumni
Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumni
University of Denver faculty