- Business Associations
- Empirical Methods in Law
- Securities Regulation
- Business Strategy for Lawyers
Links
- CV
- SSRN
- Presentation on Law and Surplus
- An Unexpected Foil to Insider Trading
- What’s law got to do with it? HBES
Education
- AB, Harvard College
- MBA, with distinction, Harvard Business School
- JD, Yale Law School, Olin Scholar of Law and Economics
Background
Michael Guttentag’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and markets, and specifically on how law can be used as a tool to share resources fairly and efficiently. Much of his research considers how securities markets should be regulated and why insider trading should be prohibited. He has used a variety of methods to carry out this research, including conducting experiments and developing mathematical models, has published numerous articles, and recently received a research grant from the Robert Schlakenbach Foundation. Prior to his career in academia, Michael Guttentag worked as an executive in the public and private sectors, where he held senior management positions in the Internet, entertainment, and financial services industries. From 2005 to 2008, he was a member of the faculty of the Boyd School of Law, UNLV, and has visited at the Emory University School of Law, UCLA School of Law, and the University of Southern California Law School. He joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 2008. Guttentag is a member of the American Law and Economics Association, the Society for Empirical Legal Studies, and the Bar of the State of California.
Selected Scholarship
- Evolutionary Psychology and Resource-Sharing Laws, 44(3) Evolution and Human Behavior 264 (May 2023)
- Law, Taxes, Inequality, and Surplus, 102 Boston University Law Review 1329 (2022)
- Avoiding Wasteful Competition: Why Trading on Inside Information Should Be Illegal, 86 Brook. L. Rev. 895 (2021)
- Law and Surplus: Opportunities Missed, 607 Utah L. Rev. (2019)
- Selective Disclosure and Insider Trading, 69 Fla. L. Rev. 519 (2017)
- On Requiring Public Companies to Disclose Political Spending, 2014 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 593 (2014)
- Patching a Hole in the JOBS Act: How and Why to Rewrite the Rules that Require Firms to Make Periodic Disclosures, 88 Ind. L.J. 151 (2013)
- Stumbling into Crime: Stochastic Process Models of Accounting Fraud in Research Handbook On The Economics Of Criminal Law, A. Harel, K. Hylton, eds., Edward Elgar (2011)
- Brandeis’ Policeman: Results from a Laboratory Experiment on Corporate Fraud, 5 J. EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 239 (2008) (with Christine Porath and Samuel Fraidin)
- Accuracy Enhancement, Agency Costs, and Disclosure Regulation, 3(2) The Review of Law and Economics 15 (2007)