James Spindler

Associate Professor of Law and Business

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jspindler@law.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-6372
Fax: (213) 740-5502
Room: 470

James Spindler specializes in securities markets regulation and corporate governance. He teaches Securities Regulation, Commercial Transactions, Business Associations, and Corporate Finance. His recent research interests include the role that disclosure rules play in deterring corporate fraud, the effect of the securities laws on business and entrepreneurial activity, and the links between executive compensation and corporate governance.

Before joining USC Law in 2005, Professor Spindler was at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a visiting assistant professor and Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He also was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Virginia, and a teaching fellow in the Harvard Economics Department. Prior to teaching, Professor Spindler practiced securities and banking law in Hong Kong and New York with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Professor Spindler graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He holds an M.A. and C.Phil. in Economics from UCLA, where he is a candidate for the Ph.D (expected 2010).

Works in Progress

• "IPO Disclosure, Underwriting Mechanics, and Asset Price Behavior," (working paper) - (SSRN)
• "Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5?" USC CLEO Research Paper No. C08-3 (working paper) - (SSRN)

Articles and Book Chapters

• "How Private is Private Equity?" 76 University of Chicago Law Review 311 (2009) - (Hein)
• "IPO Liability and Entrepreneurial Response," 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1187 (May 2007) - (Hein)
• "Why Shareholders Want Their CEOs to Lie More after Dura Pharmaceuticals," 95 Georgetown Law Journal 653 (March 2007) - (Hein)
• "Is it Time to Wind Up the Securities Act of 1933?" 29 Regulation 48 (Winter 2006) - (SSRN)
• "Conflict or Credibility: Analyst Conflicts of Interest and the Market for Underwriting Business," 35 Journal of Legal Studies 303 (June 2006) - (SSRN)
• "Corporate Heroin: A Defense of Perks, Executive Loans, and Conspicuous Consumption" (with M. Todd Henderson), 93 Georgetown Law Journal 1885 (August 2005)
• "Communication by Other Means," 28 Regulation 48 (Summer 2005) - (SSRN)

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