Distinguished Jurist Lectures 11 November 2008 Delaware Directors’ Fiduciary Duties: The Focus on Loyalty Hon. Randy Holland, Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware The Honorable Randy J. Holland presently serves on the Delaware Supreme Court. He is the youngest person to serve on the Delaware Supreme Court, having been recommended to the Governor by a bipartisan merit selection committee. Prior to his appointment and confirmation in 1986, Justice Holland was in private practice as a partner at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell. In January 1999, he was reappointed and confirmed unanimously for a second twelveyear term. Justice Holland graduated from Swarthmore College. He also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, cum laude, where he received an award for legal ethics. Justice Holland received a Master of Laws in the Judicial Process from the University of Virginia Law School.
24 October 2007 The Future of Securities Regulation Brian G. Cartwright, General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission Brian G. Cartwright currently serves as the general counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cartwright began his legal career in 1980 after earning a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review and winner of the Sears Prize. He served as a law clerk to Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Cartwright then joined the law firm of Latham & Watkins in 1982, and became a partner in 1988. Among the management positions he held at Latham & Watkins, Mr. Cartwright served as Global Chair of the firm’s practice representing public companies. While a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, he was one of five partners responsible for the management of the firm as a whole. Prior to joining the legal profession, Mr. Cartwright was an astrophysicist. Following his graduation from Yale University in 1967, he earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1971. From 1973 to 1977, he was a Research Physicist in the Department of Physics and Space and Sciences Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley. While working as an astrophysicist, Mr. Cartwright published many articles in scholarly journals, such as the Astrophysical Journal.
“ retail investors continue to invest very large dollar amounts indirectly in stock and other public securities—but only indirectly. this means that, increasingly, retail investors are not the ones deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold individual stocks—or, and this is very important, how to vote them.”—brian cartwright
institute for law and economics
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institute for law and economics
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lectures