Arthur Laby
Associate Professor

Rutgers School of Law - Camden
217 North Fifth Street
Room E411
Camden, NJ 08102

V: 856 225 6272

alaby@rutgers.edu

Biography

Professor Laby teaches securities regulation and business organizations. His research focuses on the fiduciary relationship, conflicts of interest, corporate governance, and securities enforcement.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Laby served for nearly ten years on the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, most recently as Assistant General Counsel. From 1994 to 1996, Professor Laby was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and taught courses and seminars in Germany. For four years, Professor Laby was an associate at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing principally in the areas of securities and commercial law.

Professor Laby is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor on the Law Review, and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from law school, Professor Laby clerked for the Honorable J. Frederick Motz, United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

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Publications

What Caused the Financial Crisis and What Can Be Done?, 6 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy __ (2009) (dialogue with Peter Wallison) (forthcoming)

The Competition of Systems in the Market for Listings, Book Chapter in Economic Law as an Economic Good (Karl M. Meessen ed. 2009) (with John Broussard) Available here

Hedge Funds and Their Advisors: Introduction to the Symposium on the Regulation of Private Funds, 39 Rutgers Law Journal 1 (2008)

The Fiduciary Obligation as the Adoption of Ends, 56 Buffalo Law Review 99 (2008) Available here

Differentiating Gatekeepers, 1 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law 119 (2006)

Juridical and Ethical Aspects of the Fiduciary Obligation, 13 Jahrbuch fur Recht and Ethik (Annual Review of Law and Ethics) 565 (2005)

Resolving Conflicts of Duty in Fiduciary Relationships, 54 American University Law Review 75 (2004)

Models of Securities Regulation in the US, The Weimar Symposium on the Competition Law of Deregulation, 23 Fordham International Law Journal S20 (1999)

Offshore Offerings on the Internet, National Law Journal, April 20, 1998 at B6

Patterns of SEC Enforcement Under the 1990 Remedies Act: Civil Money Penalties, 58 Albany Law Review 5 (1994) (with W. Hardy Callcott)

Fishing for Documents Overseas: The Supreme Court Upholds Broad Consent Directives Against the Claim of Self Incrimination, 70 Boston University Law Review 311 (1990) (Student Note)