Margaret Sachs
{{short description|American lawyer}}{{Infobox person
| name = Margaret V. Sachs
| education = Harvard University, B.A.
Harvard Law School, J.D.
| occupation = Law professor
| employer = University of Georgia
| notable_works = Securities Litigation and Enforcement: Cases and Materials (with Donna M. Nagy and Richard Painter)
| title = Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law Emerita
| website = https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/margaret-v-sachs
}}
Margaret V. Sachs is an American lawyer and professor emerita at the University of Georgia, where she was the Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law.{{Cite web |title=Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law Emerita |url=https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/margaret-v-sachs |access-date=November 28, 2024 |website=University of Georgia School of Law}} Sachs specialised in corporate law and securities law.
Life and career
Sachs received a B.A. from Harvard University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Sachs joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in 1990, where she taught corporate law and securities law until her retirement in 2018. She is the co-author of a securities litigation and enforcement casebook with Donna M. Nagy and Richard Painter. Sachs is a member of the American Law Institute.{{Cite web |title=Professor Margaret V. Sachs |url=https://www.ali.org/members/member/102062/ |access-date=November 28, 2024 |website=American Law Institute}}
She served on the executive committees of the corporations and security regulation sections of the Association of American Law Schools.{{Cite web |title=Margaret V. Sachs retires |url=https://www.law.uga.edu/sites/default/files/Advocate2018_Promotions-SachsRetires_21.pdf |access-date=November 30, 2024 |website=University of Georgia School of Law}}
Research published by Sachs covers topics including SEC Rule 10b-5,The Relevance of Tort Law Doctrines to Rule 10b-5: Should Careless Plaintiffs be Denied Recovery?, 71 Cornell L. Rev. 96 (1985), reprinted in 1987 Sec. L. Rev. 113.Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction for Implied Rule 10b-5 Actions: The Emperor Has No Clothes, 49 Ohio St. L.J. 559 (1988).The International Reach of Rule 10b-5: The Myth of Congressional Silence, 28 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 677 (1990).Are Local Governments Liable Under Rule 10b-5? Textualism and Its Limits, 70 Wash. U. L.Q. 19 (1992). freedom of contract,Freedom of Contract: The Trojan Horse of Rule 10b-5, 51 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 879 (1994), reprinted in 37 Corp. Prac. Commentator 103 (1995). women in corporate law teaching,Women in Corporate Law Teaching: A Tale of Two Generations, 65 Md. L. Rev. 666 (2006) fraud on the market,Superstar Judges As Entrepreneurs: The Untold Story Of Fraud-On-The-Market, 48 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1207 (2015). and SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.Unintended Consequences: The Link between Judge Friendly's Texas Gulf Sulphur Concurrence and Recent Supreme Court Decisions Misconstruing Rule 10b-5 , 71 SMU L. Rev. 947 (2018).
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