Research Handbook on Insider Trading | Stephen M. Bainbridge

Research Handbook on Insider Trading: Second Edition | Stephen M. Bainbridge

This thoroughly revised second edition skillfully provides an updated and extensive overview of cutting-edge research on insider trading, the most common violation of securities law. It presents legal, economic, and empirical studies from Australasia, the Middle East, Europe and North America.

Stephen M. Bainbridge brings together an array of expert contributors to provide global analysis on insider trading laws and economics. The book expands upon the previous edition with new and rigorously researched coverage exploring the USA's comprehensive insider trading ban and the related legal proceedings, as well as empirical research advancements in the field.

New chapters examine important developments in other major economies, including China, Japan, and the EU, and feature new insight into insider trading laws in Israel and Arab countries.

This new edition of Research Handbook on Insider Trading is an essential resource for students, educators, and professionals in company and insolvency law, economics, and finance, interested in the intricacies of insider trading.

Regulators and judges covering economic crime and corruption, and corporate law and governance will also find this book an invaluable reference.

Book Data:

• ISBN-13: 9781035301201
• ISBN-10: 1035301202
• Edition: 2
• Pages: 474
• Published: 2025
• Book Binding: Hardcover
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Language: English
• Editor: Stephen M. Bainbridge

About the Author:

Stephen M. Bainbridge: American Legal Scholar

Stephen Bainbridge is the William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA, where he teaches Business Associations, Advanced Corporation Law and a seminar on corporate governance.

He has also taught at Harvard Law School as the Joseph Flom Visiting Professor of Law and Business, La Trobe University in Melbourne, and at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. In 2008, Professor Bainbridge received the UCLA School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Also, in 2008, he was named by Directorship magazine to its list of the 100 most influential people in the field of corporate governance.

Professor Bainbridge is a prolific scholar. He has written over 75 law review articles which have appeared in such leading journals as Harvard Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review.

His most recent books include:

• The New Corporate Governance in Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Securities Law-Insider Trading (2nd ed., 2007)
• Business Associations: Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations (6th ed., 2006) (with Klein and Ramseyer)
• Agency, Partnerships, and Limited Liability Entities: Cases and Materials on Unincorporated Business Associations (2nd ed., 2007) (with Klein and Ramseyer)
• Agency, Partnerships and LLCs (2004)
• Corporation Law and Economics (2002)

Professor Bainbridge currently serves on the American Bar Association's Committee on Corporate Laws and on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Markets and Morality.