Larry Soderquist

Larry Soderquist July 20, 1944 - August 20, 2005. Noted Author & Professor of Law, Vanderbuilt University Law School, 1981 - 2005; Director, Corporate and Securities Law Institute, 1993-2005

Brief Biography

Larry D. Soderquist (B.S. Eastern Michigan University 1966; J.D. Harvard 1969; D.Min. Trinity 1998) joined the Vanderbilt faculty following distinguished tenure on the law faculty at Notre Dame. He came to teaching after decorated service as an Army Captain during the Vietnam War and after practicing law on Wall Street with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. During the Cold War, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Moscow State University. Over the course of his career, he held numerous military positions, including as chief intelligence officer on a General's staff.

Professor Soderquist was one of the best known and most respected corporate and securities law professors in America. He authored numerous books and articles on these subjects, as well as two novels. Understanding the Securities Laws, the most widely distributed book of its kind, had its influence expanded further by publication in the People's Republic of China. Professor Soderquist was the Director of Vanderbilt's Corporate and Securities Law Institute, and he edited the Practising Law Institute's Corporate and Securities Law Library and moderates its Securities Law Listserv. He was a frequent speaker on securities law, and his expertise and opinions were sought often by national media, such as the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones News Service. Professor Soderquist's distinction was recognized in 1999 by Harvard Law School when it appointed him the inaugural holder of the Joseph Flom Visiting Chair in Law and Business. In addition to his career in law, Professor Soderquist was an ordained minister who was active in many religious pursuits.

Books and Chapters in Books

• Chinese edition of Understanding the Securities Laws (Law Press of China, 2004)

• Securities Regulation (5th ed. Foundation Press, 2003) (co-author) (with teachers manual); (4th ed. Foundation Press, 1999) (co-author) (with teachers manual and supp. 2001-2002); (3d ed. 1994) (with teachers manual and annual supp. 1995-1999) (co-author); (2d ed. 1988) (with teachers manual and supp. 1988, 1991); (1st ed. 1982) (with teachers manual and supp. 1983, 1985)

• Twice yearly supplements to Understanding the Securities Laws (4d ed. PLI 2003) (also published on Lexis-Nexis); (3d ed. 1993); (2d ed. 1990); (1st ed. 1987)

• Annual supplements to Understanding the Securities Laws (3d ed. PLI 1993)

• 2002 supplement to Securities Regulation (4th ed. Foundation Press 1999) (co-author)

• Corporations and Other Business Organizations (5th ed. Lexis Law Pub. 2001) (with teachers manual and supp. 2004) (co-author); (4th ed. Michie, 1997) (with teachers manual and supp. 1998) (co-author); (3d ed. 1991) (with teachers manual) (co-author); (2d ed. 1986) (with teachers manual, statutory appendix, and supp. 1988-89) (co-author); (1st ed. Bobbs-Merrill, 1979) (with teachers manual, appendix, and supp. 1982)

• Corporate Law and Practice (2d ed. PLI 1999) (co-author); (1st ed. 1990 (Understanding Corporation Law)) (co-author) (also published on Lexis-Nexis)

• Securities Law (2nd ed. Foundation Press, 2004) (co-author); 1st ed. 1998

• Corporation, Partnership, and Securities Law: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms (Michie, 1991) (co-author)

• "Significant Securities Decisions in the Federal Circuits," Annual Institute on Securities Regulation (PLI 1997, 1998, 1999)

• "Securities Act Registration: What is Allowed and What is Not," in Nuts and Bolts of Securities Law (PLI 1999, 1998)

• Investor's Rights Handbook (PLI 1993) (also published on Lexis-Nexis)

• Law of Federal Estate and Gift Taxation: Analysis (Callaghan & Co., 1980) (co-author)

• Law of Federal Estate and Gift Taxation: Analysis (Callaghan & Co., 1978) (co-author)

• The Labcoat (Hillsboro Press, 1998) (academic novel)

• The Iraqi Provocation (Hillsboro Press, 2003) (academic novel)

Articles, Essays, and Reviews

• "State Responses to Corporate Corruption: Thirteen Mini Sarbanes-Oxley Acts," 32 Sec. Reg. L.J. 167 (2004) (co-author)
• "Arbitration in the Corporate Contest," 2003 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 1 (2003) (co-author)
• "A Paradigm from Securities Law of Uninformed Supreme Court Decisionmaking," 57 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 497 (2000)
• "The Role of the SEC in a Changing Market," 2001 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 45 (2000)
• "Theory of the Firm: What a Corporation Is," 25 J. Corp. L. 375 (2000)
• "Alcohol, Firearms, and Constitutions," 28 U. Memphis L. Rev. 335 (1998)
• "Inefficiency in the Market for Initial Public Offerings," 48 Vand. L. Rev. 965 (1995) (co-author)
• "Review Essay: Corporate First Amendment Rights and the SEC," 41 Emory L.J. 159 (1992)
• "The Soviet Cooperative Before Perestroika: The Leninist Versus the Stalinist Concept," 39 Am. J. Comp. L. 599 (1991) (co-author)
• "Private Companies in the Soviet Union: Cooperatives in the Era of Perestroika," 32 Harv. Int'l L.J. 201 (1991) (co-author)
• "The Proper Standard for Director's Negligence Liability," 66 Notre Dame L. Rev. 37 (1990), reprinted in 41 Def. L.J. 127 (1992)
• "Review: The Law of Corporate Groups: Procedural Problems in the Law of Parent and Subsidiary Corporations," 12 Int'l J. Leg. Info. 268 (1984)
• "Observations on a New Hawaii Corporation Statute," 3 U. Haw. L. Rev. 194 (1981)
• "Reconciling Shareholders' Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Close and Small Public Corporations,"33 Vand. L. Rev. 1387 (1980)
• "Security Holders' Registration Rights under the Proposed Federal Securities Code: A Current Concern," 55 Notre Dame Law. 390 (1980)
• "Legal Counseling and Lawyers' Fees: A 'Quadrilogue,'" 65 A.B.A. J. 908 (1979) (co-author)
• "Reconciling Shareholders' Rights and Corporate Responsibility: New Guidelines for Management," 1978 Duke L.J. 819 (co-author)
• "Toward a More Effective Corporate Board: Reexamining Roles of Outside Directors," 52 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1341 (1977), reprinted in 10 Sec. L. Rev. 243 (1979)
• "Review: The Structure of the Corporation: A Legal Analysis," 1977 Duke L.J. 933, reprinted in 20 Corp. Prac. Commentator 398 (1978)
• "Review: Taming the Giant Corporation," 4 J. Legis. 170 (1977)

Also the author of numerous articles in the Nashville Business Journal.

External links

• Arlington Cemetary
• The Iraqi Provocation
• Ypsilanti Courier
• Thoughts on Martha Stewart's Securities problems