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The Triumph, Tragedy and Lost Legacy of James M Landis - A Life on Fire (Paperback)
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The Triumph, Tragedy and Lost Legacy of James M Landis - A Life on Fire (Paperback)
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James M Landis - scholar, administrator, advocate and political
adviser - is known for his seminal contribution to the creation of
the modern system of market regulation in the USA. As a highly
influential participant in the politics of the New Deal he drafted
the statute which was to become the foundation for securities
regulation in the US, and by extension the founding principle of
financial market regulation across the world. He was also a complex
and in some ways tragic figure, whose glittering career collapsed
following the revelation that he had failed to pay tax for a five
year period in the 1950s. The oversight was to cost possible
elevation to the Supreme Court, forced prosecution and sentencing
in 1963 to one month's imprisonment, commuted to forced
hospitalisation, and subsequent suspension of licence to practise.
This candid and revealing book sets his life in the context of his
work as an academic, legislative draftsman, administrator and Dean
of Harvard Law School. In rescuing from history Landis's battles
and achievements in regulatory design, theory and practice, it
speaks directly to the perennial problems in financial market
regulation - how to deal with institutions deemed too big to fail,
how to regulate the sale of complex financial instruments and what
role can the professions play as gatekeepers of market integrity.
It argues that in failing to learn from the lessons of history we
limit the capacity of regulatory intervention to facilitate
cultural change, without which contemporary responses to financial
crises are destined to fail.
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