Portrait of James D. Cox
Scholar portraitSource: Duke University School of Law

Cox

James D. Cox

Corporate and securities-law scholar of market regulation and securities litigation

securities lawmarket regulationsecurities litigation

Official Source Note

Duke Law lists Cox as Brainerd Currie Distinguished Professor of Law and describes his specialization in corporate and securities law. The profile notes his securities-regulation casebook work and publications in market regulation and corporate governance.

Cox is included because his work connects doctrinal securities law to market regulation, securities litigation, accounting, insider trading, class actions, and public-company governance.

Source: Duke University School of Law

Relevance to the Archive

Cox strengthens the archive's coverage of public offerings, securities class actions, insider trading, market reform, and the institutional relation between securities doctrine and market practice.

Representative Contributions

  • Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials
  • Financial Information, Accounting and the Law
  • Cox and Hazen on Corporations