Law & Economics
Portrait of Donald C. Langevoort
Scholar portraitSource: Georgetown Law

Langevoort

Donald C. Langevoort

Securities-law scholar of insider trading, disclosure, and behavioral regulation

securities lawinsider tradingbehavioral economics

Official Source Note

Georgetown Law lists Langevoort as Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law with expertise in business organizations and securities regulation, as well as psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive science.

Langevoort is included because his work connects securities-law doctrine to behavioral assumptions, SEC experience, insider-trading regulation, disclosure design, professional responsibility, and securities litigation reform.

Source: Georgetown Law

Relevance to the Archive

Langevoort is especially useful for readers studying investor behavior, scienter, insider trading, disclosure design, professional gatekeepers, and the limits of purely rational-market assumptions.

Representative Contributions

  • Insider Trading: Regulation, Enforcement and Prevention
  • Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials
  • The SEC, Retail Investors, and the Institutionalization of the Securities Markets