Lisa M. Fairfax; Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr. · April 2013
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 663 (2013)
On March 2, 2012, The George Washington University Law School’s Center for Law, Economics & Finance and The George Washington Law Review jointly hosted a symposium entitled “Striking the Right Balance: Investor and Consumer Protection in the New Financial Marketplace.” The symposium received supporting grants from the Institute for Law and Economic Policy and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. We are most grateful to both sponsors for their generous support.
The symposium focused on two principal topics. First, participants analyzed the impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) on investors and consumers in three areas of federal regulation—securities markets, derivatives markets, and consumer financial products. Second, the symposium evaluated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Sarbanes-Oxley”) on its tenth anniversary and considered whether Sarbanes-Oxley’s legacy might offer any lessons as to the potential effectiveness (or lack thereof) of Dodd-Frank’s reforms.
