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Staff Directory Meiring de Villiers
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Publications
Stock Price Crashes
and 10b-5 Damages: A Legal, Economic and Policy Analysis (with Baruch
Lev), 47 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 7 (1994.)
Relied upon and cited by US Congress as well as Senate in securities
legislative reform. Received national award, best securities paper published in
USA, 1995.
Cited in the following federal judicial opinions:
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In re Crazy Eddie Securities Litigation, 948 F.Supp. 1154,
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In re Clearly Canadian Securities Litigation, 875 F.Supp. 1410,
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In re Polymedica Corp. Securities Litigation, 432 F.3d 1
(2005).
Cited in US Supreme Court brief: Brief of State of New Jersey Department of the Treasury and its Division of Investment, as Amicus Curiae, 2003 U.S. Briefs 932, In support of respondents in Dura Pharmaceuticals et al. v Michael Broudo et al., No. 03-932, Supreme Court of the United States (November 15, 2004).
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A Legal and Policy
Analysis of Bifurcated Litigation, 2000 COLUMBIA BUS. LAW
REVIEW, 153 (2000.)
Technological Risk and
Issue Preclusion A Legal and Policy Critique, 9 CORNELL JOURNAL
OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY, 523 (2000.)
Cited as authority in Amicus Curiae brief submitted by US Chamber of Commerce
on behalf of General Motors (Anderson v General Motors) to overturn record $4.8
billion punitive damages award (March 2001.)
Virus ex Machina Res Ipsa
Loquitur, 2003 STANFORD TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 1.
The Effect of Transaction
Size on Off-the-Run Treasury Prices (with D. Babbel, C.
Merrill, and M. Meyer), JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS,
September 2004.
Book Chapter: "Bifurcated Litigation" reprinted in Civil Procedure: Doctrine,
Practice and Context, by S. Subrin, M. Monow, M. Brodin, and T. Main. Expected
publication date: March 2004.
Computer Viruses and
Civil Liability: A Conceptual Framework, TORT TRIAL AND
INSURANCE PRACTICE LAW JOURNAL, Fall 2004 (40:1).
Free
Radicals in Cyberspace: Complex Liability Issues in Information Warfare, 4 Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 1 (2005)
Distributed Denial of Service: Law, Technology & Policy. World Jurist Law/Technology Journal v. 39 n. 3 (2006).
Opinionated Software, Forthcoming Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Reasonable Foreseeability in Information Security Law: A Forensic Analysis, forthcoming 30 HASTINGS COMMUNICATIONS AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL (2008).
Substantial Truth in Defamation Law, 32 American J. of Trial Advocacy 91 (Summer 2008).
Quantitative Proof of Reputational Harm
Conference Presentation
"Risk, Arbitrage and Market Segmentation: A Stochastic Dominance Approach",
presented at 13th International Conference of the French Finance Association,
Geneva, Switzerland (Summer 1995).
"A Convex Preference-Theoretic Interpretation of Third Order Stochastic
Dominance," presented at "Frontiers of Utility and Risk" (FUR), Facultés
Universitaires Catholiques de Mons, Mons, Belgium (Summer, 1997).
Legal Aspects of Malevolent Software and Computer Security, presented at "The
Fifth Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theory,
Applications and Practice," National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
December 12 - 15, 2000.
The Law & Economics of Computer Virus Transmission and Detection, presented
at American Law and Economics Association Eleventh Annual Meeting, Georgetown
University Law Center, Washington, D.C., May 11-12, 2001.
Evidence in Cyberspace: A Forensic Analysis of Malevolent Software, presented at
11-th Annual Virus Bulletin Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2001.
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