AEI asks Sarbanes-Oxley: What Have We Learned? MOnday. March 13, 2006, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m., at AEI.

Professor Larry Ribstein, a scholar of corporate and securities law, and Professor Henry N. Butler, an expert on the economic analysis of law, will discuss their forthcoming monograph, The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: How to Fix It and What We’ve Learned (AEI Press, 2006). Richard Booth of the University of Maryland School of Law and AEI’s Alex J. Pollock and Peter J. Wallison will respond. Ted Frank, director of AEI’s Liability Project, will act as moderator.

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I am on the "it's a horror show" side -- search the blog for SOX. And the matter is of particular importance to tech and IP because these are the industries for which the assumptions underlying SOX are most ridiculous, and thus the most dangerous.