College of Law

Publications

Articles, Essays & Book Reviews

• Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. ___ (2010) (with James Cox and Randall Thomas)
• On Regulating Conflict of Interests in the Credit Rating Industry, 13 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y ___ (2010)
• Deterring “Double-Play” Manipulation in Financial Crisis: Increasing Transaction Cost as a Regulatory Tool, 35 N.C. J. Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 137 (2009) (with Rujing Meng)
• Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions? Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (2009) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas)
• There Are Plaintiffs and . . . There Are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 355 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas)
• The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation—Can It Alleviate Downward Price Pressure from Negative Earnings Shocks?, 5 Rutgers Bus. L.J. 1 (2008)

Presentations

• The Role of Institutional Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Class Actions, Conference on the Future of Securities Fraud Litigation, Financial Economics Institute
  Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA (Feb. 2008)
• Should Institutions Lead Securities Class Actions?—Empirical Evidence, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law (Jan. 2008)
• The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation—Can It Alleviate Downward Price Pressures from Negative Earnings Shocks?, 24th Annual European Association of Law and Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark (Sept. 2007)
• Cross-Margining between Futures and Options, Conference on Financial Futures, Changsha, China (Nov. 1997)

Courses

• Contemporary Issues in Business Regulation
• Corporate Finance
• Property

November 2011

Lin’s article, Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settelments on Targeted Firms, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1877 (2010) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in James D. Cox, Response, Securities Class Actions as Public Law, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 73 (2011).

Summer 2011

In August, Lynn presented a work-in-progress, titled “Sophisticated Investors, Complicated Derivatives, and Duties of Financial Institutions,” to the law faculty as part of the College’s Summer 2011 Faculty Workshop series.

Several of Lynn’s articles were cited:

Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), in Gideon Mark, Confidential Witnesses in Securities Litigation, 36 J. Corp. L. 551 (2011);

• There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), in Stephen J. Choi, Motions For Lead Plaintiff In Securities Class Actions, 40 J. Legal Stud. 205 (2011);

• The Performance Disclosures of Credit Rating Agencies: Are They Effective Reputational Sanctions? 7 NYU J. L. & Bus. 47(2010), in Donald C. Langevoort, Securities Law Review (Clark Boardman 2011 Supp.); and

• The Performance Disclosures of Credit Rating Agencies: Are They Effective Reputational Sanctions? 7 NYU J. L. & Bus. 47(2010), in Usha Rodrigues, Corporate Governance in an Age of Separation of Ownership from Ownership, 95 Minn. L. Rev. 1822 (2011).

May 2011

Several of Lynn’s articles were cited: 

Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Gideon Mark, Confidential Witnesses in Securities Litigation, 36 J. Corp. L. 551 (2011);

There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in David F. Herr, Annotated Manual for Complex Litigation § 31.8 (4th ed. 2011  Supp.); and

There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in 1 Brent A. Olson, Publicly Traded Corporations: Governance & Regulation § 31.8 (3d ed. Supp. 2011).

March 2011

Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Marc I. Steinberg & Diego E. Gomez-Cornejo, Blurring the Lines Between Pleading Doctrines: The Enhanced Rule 8(a)(2) Plausibility Pleading Standard Converges With the Heightened Fraud Pleading Standards Under Rule 9(b) and the PSLRA, 30 Rev. Litig. 1 (2010).

Februry 2011

Lynn presented her paper, Credit Rating Agency Performance Disclosure Regulation, at the Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop at Capital University Law School in Columbus, and at the University of Dayton School of Law in Dayton.

Lynn’s article, The Performance Disclosures of Credit Rating Agencies: Are They Effective Reputational Sanctions? 7 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus. 47(2010), is now in print.

Two of Lynn’s articles were cited:

•    Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settelments on Targeted Firms, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1877 (2010) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Victor D. Quintanilla, (Mis)Judging Intent: The Fundamental Attribution Error In Federal Securities Law, 7 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus. 195 (2010); and

•    There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), in Christina L. Boyd & David A. Hoffman, Disputing Limited Liability, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 853 (2010).

January 2011

Lynn’s article, On Regulating Conflict of Interest in the Credit Rating Industry, 13 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 253 (2010), was cited in Thomas Lee Hazen, Law of Securities Regulation (Thomson West, 6th ed. 2011 Supp.).

December 2010

Lynn’a article, The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation – Can It Alleviate the Downward Pressure from Negative Earnings Shocks?, 5 Rutgers Bus. L.J. 1 (2008), was cited in Emilios Avgouleas, A New Framework For The Global Regulation Of Short Sales: Why Prohibition Is Inefficient And Disclosure Insufficient, 15 Stan. J.L. Bus. & Fin. 376 (2010).

November 2010

Lynn’s article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Jonathan C. Lipson, Understanding Failure: Examiners And The Bankruptcy Reorganization Of Large Public Companies, 84 Am. Bankr. L.J. 1 (2010).

September 2010

Lynn’s most recent article, The Performance Disclosures of Credit Rating Agencies: Are They Effective Reputational Sanctions?, has been accepted for publication in the New York University Journal of Law & Business (forthcoming 2010).

Summer 2010

Lynn’s newest article, Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1877 (2010) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), is now in print.

Two of Lynn’s articles were cited:

• Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), in Donald C. Langevoort, Reading Stoneridge Carefully: A Duty-based Approach to Reliance and Third-party Liability under Rule 10b-5, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2125 (2010); and
• There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), in Donald C. Langevoort, Reading Stoneridge Carefully: A Duty-based Approach to Reliance and Third-party Liability under Rule 10b-5, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2125 (2010).

June 2010

Lynn published On Regulating Conflict of Interest in the Credit Rating Industry, 13 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 253 (2010). Her latest article, Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. ___ (2010) (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)), was featured on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation and WVXU 91.7.

Two of Lynn’s articles were cited:

• Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)), in Robin Effron, The Plaintiff Neutrality Principle: Pleading Complex Litigation in the Era of Twombly and Iqbal, 51 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1997 (2010).
• There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)), in Brent A. Olson, Publicly Traded Corporations: Governance & Regulation (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 3d. ed. 2010); and in Jonathan C. Lipson, Understanding Failure: Examiners and the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large Public Companies, 84 Am. Bankr. L.J. 1 (2010).

May 2010

Lynn’s article, Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)), was accepted for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. The article was featured in Financially Wronged? New Study Says Investors Should Go After Leadership Instead of Corporation Itself, UC News, Apr. 16, 2010.

Lynn attended the Vanderbilt Law & Business Conference on Rethinking Securities Regulation. Her article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Jonathan C. Lipson, Understanding Failure: Examiners and the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large Public Companies, 84 Am. Bankr. L.J. 1 (2010); and David F. Herr, Annotated Manual for Complex Litigation (Thomson-West, 2010 Supp.).

April 2010

Lynn completed a new article, Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settelments on Targeted Firms (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt). She was the discussant for two faculty workshops as part of the College’s Scholar Exchange Program:

• Paulo Barrozo (Boston College), The Doctrinal Structure of Constitutional Punishment.
• Stephen Choi (NYU), The Supreme Court’s Impact on Securities Class Actions: An Empirical Assessment of Tellabs (with Adam Pritchard (Michigan)).

March 2010

Lynn published Deterring “Double-Play” Manipulation in Financial Crisis: Increasing Transaction Cost as a Regulatory Tool, 35 N.C. J. Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 137 (2009) (with Rujing Meng). She presented Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms’ Stock Price, Operating Performance and Bankruptcy Risk (with James D. Cox) at the Judicial Behavior Workshop at Duke.

February 2010

Lynn presented On Regulating Conflict of Interest in the Credit Rating Industry, 13 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y ___ (2010), at Boston College as part of the College’s Scholar Exchange Program. Her article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Ronald J. Colombo, Cooperation with Securities Fraud, 61 Ala. L. Rev. 61 (2009).

October 2009

Lynn was reappointed as Assistant Professor of Law for a term of three years. Her article, On Regulating Conflict of Interest in the Credit Rating Industry, was accepted for publication in the New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. Lynn’s article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Adam Reiser, Compensating Defrauded Investors While Preserving the SEC's Mission of Deterrence: A Call for Congress to Counteract the Troubling Consequences of Stoneridge, 2009 Utah L. Rev. 257.

Summer 2009

Lynn published:

• The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation – Can It Alleviate the Downward Pressure from Negative Earnings Shocks?, 5 Rutgers Bus. L.J. 1 (2008).
• Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses, 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas).

Lin presented Effectiveness of Current Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies as part of the 13th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

June 2009

Lynn’s article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in David F. Herr, Annotated Manual for Complex Litigation (Thomson-West, 2009 Supp.).

May 2009

Lin’s article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)), was selected as one of the Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2008 by the Corporate Practice Commentator.

April 2009

Lynn presented her latest paper, Deterring Double-Play Manipulation in Financial Crisis—Increasing Transaction Cost as a Regulatory Tool, 35 N.C. J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. __ (2009) (with Rujing Meng (University of Hong Kong, Department of Finance and Economics) at the University of Kentucky as part of the College's Scholar Exchange Program.

Lynn was quoted in Betting on Bad Corporate News, Contra Costa Times, Mar. 17. 2009.

March 2009

Lynn acted as the discussant at a faculty workshop at the College by Paul Rose (Ohio State) on The Regulation of Shareholder Influence as part of the College’s Scholar Exchange Program.

February 2009

Lynn completed an article, Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)).

January 2009

Lynn’s article, Do Differences in Pleading Standards Cause Forum Shopping in Securities Class Actions?: Doctrinal and Empirical Analyses (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)), was accepted for publication in the Wisconsin Law Review. Her article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 350 (2008) (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)), was cited in Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Securities Class Actions as Pragmatic Ex Post Regulation, 43 Ga. L. Rev. 63 (2008).

December 2008

Lynn moderated a panel discussion at the second annual ethics conference, The Role of the General Counsel in Advising Management and the Board of Directors, sponsored by the Corporate Law Center and the Association of Corporate Counsel, Southwest Ohio Chapter. Paul Heldman, General Counsel of the Kroger Company, was the keynote speaker.

November 2008

Lynn's article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Amanda Rose, Reforming Securities Litigation Reform: Restructuring the Relationship between Public and Private Enforcement of Rule 10b-5, 108 Colum. L. Rev. 1301 (2008).

Summer 2008

Lynn presented Sustaining Intervention A Reflection on the Ten-Year Anniversary of the Hong Kong Government's Controversial Stock Market Support Measures as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

June 2008

Lynn's proposed reform of the law review system attracted a lot of attention in the blogosphere. Her article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Elliott J. Weiss, The Lead Plaintiff Provisions of the PSLRA after a Decade, or "Look What's Happened to My Baby", 61 Vand. L. Rev. 543 (2008).

May 2008

Lynn's paper, The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation - Can it Alleviate Downward Price Pressure from Negative Earnings Shocks?, was repeatedly cited by the SEC in its decision to abandon the rule.

March 2008

Lynn presented The Impact of Institutions on Securities Class Action Settlements at The Future of Securities Fraud Litigation Conference at Claremont McKenna College in Ontario, CA.

February 2008

Lynn posted There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements 61 Vand. L. Rev. ___ (2008) (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)) at Pittsburgh as part of UC's Scholar Exchange Program.

Lynn attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

December 2007

Lynn posted There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)) on SSRN.

October 2007

Lynn presented The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation  Can It Alleviate Downward Price Pressure from Negative Earning Shocks? at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Law and Economics in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Summer 2007

Lynn joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Law.

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