Courses Offered:

Securities Regulation
Securities Litigation & Enforcement
Corporations
Corporations Seminar

Professional Biographical Information:

Margaret V. Sachs is the Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law. A native of Washington, D.C., she joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in 1990 and teaches courses in securities law and corporations. Her principal academic interest is in the area of securities litigation, in which she has published a number of articles. She is the author (with Donna M. Nagy and Richard W. Painter) of the first casebook on securities litigation and enforcement, the second edition of which was published by Thomson/West in 2007.

Professor Sachs received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and her law degree from Harvard Law School. She clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced briefly with a large Wall Street law firm. She is a member of the American Law Institute.