Stuart R. Cohn
教授，美国佛罗里达大学法学院，Sam T. Dell Research Scholar
Email: cohn@law.ufl.edu
http://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/stuart-r-cohn
来访时间：2014-2015学年第二学期
课程名称：《美国证券法导论》
课程学分：1学分
Education
LL.B., Yale University B.A., Oxford University
B.A., University of Illinois
Teaching and Scholarship
Corporate & Securities Law, Franchise Law
Professional Activities
University of Florida: Joined College of Law Faculty in 1977 as Associate Professor. Named Professor 1980 and International Programs Coordinator 2001.
Visiting Faculty: University of Maryland, University of Konstanz (Germany), West Virginia University, University of Michigan
Career Highlights: Marshall Scholar, Oxford University (1962-64); Lecturer, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (1987); Instructor, Ecole de Droit Summer Program, Montpellier University, France (1999), and American Law Program, Warsaw University, Poland (1999, 2000); Senior Fellow, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (2002 - present); Workshop Director, Capital Market Development in West Africa (2000); Seminar Director, Capital Market Development in Uganda (1997, 1999, 2000)
Organizations: American Bar Association (Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities since 1980, Subcommittee on Proxy Regulation and Tender Offers); The Florida Bar Association (Executive Council, Business Law Section, 1995-present; Chairman, Committee on Corporations and Securities, 1995-97; Chairman, Subcommittee on Judicial Dissolution of Corporations, 1993); Illinois Bar, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi
Business Organizations (3 credits) - LAW 6062
A consideration of the various forms of doing business, especially for unincorporated associations. Emphasis is placed upon agency and partnership, with consideration given to other forms of businesses, such as non-profit corporations, professional associations, and limited liability companies.
Corporations (3 credits) - LAW 6063
Registration preference will be given to fall entering students on their fourth full semester, and to spring entering students on their second full semester. Consideration of problems in organizing a corporation, disregard of the corporate fiction, control and management, derivative suits, and special problems of close corporation. Consideration also may be given to regulations controlling insider trading, proxy solicitations and short-swing profits.
Corporate Finance and Reorganization (3 credits) - LAW 6064
An inquiry into the various methods used in financing the corporation, payment of dividends and other distributions, the reacquisition by a corporation of its own shares, and problems of mergers, consolidations and other forms of corporate reorganization. Prerequisites: Corporations (LAW 6063). Recommended: Legal Accounting (LAW 6760).
Securities Regulation (3 credits) - LAW 6560
Examination of the controls and exemptions relating to the sale and distribution of securities by corporations, underwriters and others, including the scope of the securities laws, registration provisions, distribution and resale of restricted securities, express and implied civil liabilities, secondary distributions and tender offers. Issues will be analyzed in the context of the 1933 and 1934 federal statutes, as amended, and state Blue Sky laws. Prerequisites: Corporations (LAW 6063).
Books
SECURITIES COUNSELING FOR NEW AND DEVELOPING COMPANIES (West Group) (annually supplemented) FLORIDA BUSINESS LAWS ANNOTATED: COMMENTARY, CASES AND FORMS (West Group) (co-authored, annually supplemented)
CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN UGANDA (International Law Institute, 1999) (co-authored) (443 pages)
Articles
The Sitting Ducks of Securities Class Action Litigation: Bio-Pharmas and the Need for Improved Evaluation of Scientific Data, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (to be published Fall, 2010) (co-authored)
Dover Judicata: How Much Should Florida Courts Be Influenced By Delaware Corporate Law Decisions?, 83 Florida Bar J. 20 (2009)
Comparative United States and Polish Regulation of Corporate Freeze- Outs and Squeeze-Outs, Warsaw University Law Journal (Spring 2008) (co-authored)
Capital Offense: The SEC’s Continuing Failure to Address Small Business Financing Concerns, 4 New York University J Law & Bus. 1 (2007) (coauthored)
Good Corporate Governance in Developing Nations: Idealism and Realism, Best Practice Series #12, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (2006)
The Non-Merger Virtual Merger: Is Corporate Law Ready for Virtual Reality?, 29 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 1 (2004), reprinted in Corporate Mergers: Modern Approaches (Icfai University Press, India, 2008)
Poland and United States Business Laws: A Commentary on Differing Historical and Doctrinal Bases, 3 Warsaw University Law Review 20 (2004)
The Development of Micro-Cap Securities Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Approaches to Fostering Enterprise Growth, United Nations Programmes in the Legal Aspects of Debt and Financial Management (2002)
Confidence Building in Sub-Saharan Stock Markets, Capital Market Development: The Road Ahead United Nations Programmes in the Legal Aspects of Debt and Financial Management (2000) The Impact of Securities Laws on Developing Companies: Would the Wright Brothers Have Gotten Off the Ground?, 3 Journal of Small Emerging Business Law, Northwestern School of Lewis and Clark College 315 (1999)
Corporate Natural Law: the Dominance of Justice in a Codified World, 48 Florida Law Review 551 (1996)
