In this BU Law podcast, host David Yas, a BU Law alum, former publisher of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and a V.P. at Bernstein Global Wealth, welcomes David H. Webber, associate professor of law at BU Law, to talk about his interesting research in the area of shareholder activism and his paper “The Plight of the Individual Investor in Securities Class Actions,“ which will soon be published in the Northwestern University Law Review. Together they look at the forces that are driving shareholder activism, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, corporate governance reform and how to remedy conflicts between institutional and individual investors in class actions.

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Gretchen Morgenson, a business columnist for the New York Times, discusses her new book Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.

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