Jay Brown is a law professor with specializations in corporations and corporate governance, business law, administrative law, and securities regulation. He currently teaches at the

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Education

Brown earned a B.A. in Government in 1978 from the

College of William & Mary The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III ...

, a J.D. from University of Maryland School of Law in 1980, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Government from

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in 1984 and 1993 respectively. His dissertation topic was "International Cooperation and Reform of the Japanese Financial Markets.""CV: J. (Jay) Robert Brown Jr."
Sturm College of Law web page. Retrieved 2011-08-18.

Career

After holding brief teaching positions at

Franklin & Marshall College Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) is a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It employs 175 full-time faculty members and has a student body of approximately 2,400 full-time students. It was founded upon the merger of Fran ...

and

Dickinson School of Law Penn State Dickinson Law, formerly Dickinson School of Law, is a public law school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is one of two separately accredited law schools of The Pennsylvania State University. According to Penn State Dickinson Law's 2019 ...

, Brown joined the University of Denver in 1988, teaching in the law school and, for a period, in the school of international affairs. He was awarded a

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in 1997 and spent six months at the

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Institute of Management. From 2000 to 2004, he was an associate dean for academic affairs at the law school. In 2009, he was a visiting professor at UC Hastings Law School. In August 2011, Brown commented on NPR about the SEC's destruction of documents related to dropped investigations. Brown was quoted as saying, "My initial take on this is it's a tempest in a teapot... What appears to be going on here is the SEC would look at a matter, decide not to bring a case and largely purge the file of documents."

Publications

:(not a comprehensive review of publications)
"Corporate Governance"
Sturm College of Law website link to ''TheRacetotheBottom.org'', a student-faculty blog providing "an analysis of the laws and regulatory measures that govern today's corporations." Brown contributions to the blog include: :*Examinations of attorney

fee A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for rights or services. Fees usually allow for overhead, wages, costs, and markup. Traditionally, professionals in the United Kingdom (and previously the Republic of Ireland) receive a fee in contra ...

shifting in corporate

bylaw A by-law (bye-law, by(e)law, by(e) law), or as it is most commonly known in the United States bylaws, is a set of rules or law established by an organization or community so as to regulate itself, as allowed or provided for by some higher authorit ...

s and

IPO An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...

s ''e.g.'
"Fee Shifting in Derivative Suits and the Oklahoma Legislature"
an

Also, a review of executive-compensation clawback provisions still not promulgated under Dodd-Frank including a look back at the "tepid effort" under the earlier Sarbanes-Oxley. All posted during September 2014.
"Business Roundtable v. SEC: The Necessary Course to Understand the Decision"
an

an

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v. SEC", August 29-September 1, 2011
"Book Review: Wang & Steinberg, ''Insider Trading, 3d Edition''"
August 18, 2011.

August 5, 2011, and others about

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's SEC proceedings in 2011 :a/o 8/18/2011, Brown had a total of 35 entries on the blog archive going back to July 7, 2011,"Entries by J Robert Brown Jr. (35)"
web page. Retrieved 2011-08-18. including also certain related news items lik

August 6, 2011, about the SEC's Casey stepping down August 5.
"Returning Fairness to Executive Compensation"
''North Dakota Law Review'', Vol. 84 2009; abstract. *"Opting Only In: Nexus of Contracts and Waiver of Liability Provisions," co-authored with Gopalan, 42 ''Indiana Law Review'' 285 (2009).
"The SEC, Corporate Governance, and Shareholder Access to the Board Room"
''Utah Law Review'' 1339-91 (2008).
"Of Empires, Independents and Captives: Law Blogging, Law Scholarship, and Law School Rankings"
U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-04 (2008); abstract. *"Disclosure, Corporate Governance, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Limits of Disclosure," 57 ''Catholic Law Review'' 45 (Fall 2007).
"Disloyalty without Limits: 'Independent' Directors and the Elimination of the Duty of Loyalty"
''Kentucky Law Journal'' Vol. 95 (2006).
Criticizing the critics: Sarbanes-Oxley and quack corporate governance"
''Marquette Law Review'', 90:309-35 (2006). *Brown, J. Robert Jr. and Allison Herren Lee, Esq.
"The Neutral Assignment of Judges at the Court of Appeals"
78 '' Texas Law Review'' 1037 (April 2000); article summary at Sturm College of Law website.
"The Great 'Fall': The Consequences of Repealing the Glass-Steagall Act"
''Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance'' 2:1 (Fall 1995) p. 129; table of contents listing.
"Disruptive Technological Change and a Paradigm Shift in Board Composition"
''muconf.missouri.edu'', n.d.
''Opening Japan's financial markets''
(London/New York: Routledge, 1994) ; catalog entry at

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References

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