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  • Christine Sgarlata Chung

    Co-director, Institute for Financial Market Regulation; Professor of Law
    518-445-3389
    cchung@albanylaw.edu
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Cour​se​s​​​

  • Business Organizations
  • Contracts I and II
  • Hot Topics in Financial Market Regulation
  • Transactional & Business Law Practicum
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  • Biography

    B.A., Amherst College (magna cum laude)
    J.D., Harvard Law School (cum laude)

    Professor of Law Christine Chung draws upon her deep knowledge of and experience with financial markets, corporate governance norms, complex business transactions, and government investigations to examine financial market regulatory systems, capital markets and corporate and securities law systems, municipal finance, and consumer and investor protection. Professor Chung's teaching and research interests include regulatory architecture and regulatory reform, risk management (including systemic risk management), compliance, corporate governance, investor protection and feminist jurisprudence. She frequently presents on issues associated with securities fraud and investor protection, the recent financial crisis, and municipal financial distress.

    Prior to joining Albany Law School, Professor Chung served as a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, where she was a member of the firm's securities and white collar crime practice groups. While at Goodwin, Professor Chung specialized in complex business litigation and civil and criminal securities-related enforcement matters, including proceedings involving the Department of Justice, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers (now known as FINRA) and various state attorneys general. She also specialized in compliance and risk management counseling for clients. Her clients included mutual funds, investment advisors, broker-dealers, bank holding companies, complex operating companies, officers, directors and employees.

    Before joining Goodwin Procter, Professor Chung served as Branch Chief of the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, among other posts. As a member of the Enforcement Division, Professor Chung specialized in investigating and litigating cases involving a wide range of alleged securities-related misconduct, including matters involving alleged financial reporting fraud, insider trading, and professional misconduct by accounting professionals.

    Professor Chung is co-director of the joint Albany Law School/UAlbany Institute for Financial Market Regulation. Professor Chung initially joined Albany Law's faculty in 2007 as director of the Securities Arbitration Clinic.

  • Presentations

    Albany Law School Law Review Symposium, Faculty Advisor and Moderator, The Regulation of Financial Institutions in New York and Beyond (October 2009).

    Ethics:  Discovery, Claims Investigation and Other Pre-Filing Issues, lecture and companion articles prepared for Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Securities Law Day (October 2009).

    Black Swans, TARP and Regulatory Reform, Guest Lecture for Albany Law School Business Planning Course (Spring 2009).

    Ethical Issues That May Arise When Investigating Potential Securities Law Violations, lecture and companion article prepared for Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Securities Law Day (October 2008).

    Stephen P. Younger, Romaine Gardner and Christine Sgarlata Chung, lecture prepared for NYSBA CLE Seminar on Selecting Arbitrators in Securities Arbitrations (December 2007).

Bo​oks

  • BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS LAW IN FOCUS (with Deborah Bouchoux) (Focus Casebook Series, Wolters Kluwer, 2016)

Publications

  • BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS LAW IN FOCUS (with Deborah Bouchoux) (Focus Casebook Series, Wolters Kluwer, 2016)

  • Municipal Bankruptcy, Essential Municipal Services, and Taxpayers' Voice, 24 Widener Law Journal, 43 (April 2015)papers.cfm

  • Government Budgets As The Hunger Games: The Brutal Competition For State and Local Government Resources Given Municipal Securities Debt, Pension and OBEP Obligations, And Taxpayer Needs, 33 Review of Banking and Financial Law 663 (2014)papers.cfm

  • Zombieland/the Detroit Bankruptcy: Why Debts Associated with Pensions, Benefits, and Municipal Securities Never Die... and How They Are Killing Cities Like Detroit, 41 Fordham Urban Law Journal 771 (2014)

  • Municipal Securities: The Crisis of State and Local Government Indebtedness, Systemic Costs of Low Default Rates, and Opportunities for Reform, 34 Cardozo Law Review 1455 (April 2013)papers.cfm

  • From Lily Bart to the Boom Boom Room: How Wall Street's Social and Cultural Response to Women Has Shaped Securities Regulation, 33 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 175 (Winter 2010)papers.cfm

  • Ethical Issues That May Arise When Investigating Potential Securities Law Violations, materials prepared for Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Securities Law Day (October 2009)

  • Summaries of Selected Reports and Commentaries on Regulatory Reform and Financial Institutions (Prepared for Congressional Oversight Panel, Special Report on Regulatory Reform) (with David McCaffrey)

  • Trends in Corporate Fraud Enforcement: A Calm During the Storm? Business Crimes Bulletin (October 2005) (with Joseph Savage)

  • SOX Lowers the Bar for Barring Officers and Directors, Business Crimes Bulletin (December 2004) (with Joseph Savage)

  • Late Trading of Mutual Funds: Chinks in the Armor of Regulators' Claims That it is Illegal Per Se, 18 (no.11) Andrews White-Collar Crime Reporter (2004) (with Thomas Frongillo)

  • Can You? Should You? Must You? Counsel's Obligation to Self-Report Company Crime, Business Crimes Bulletin (April 2004) (with Joseph Savage)

  • The Electronic Paper Trail: Evidentiary Obstacles to Discovery and Admission of Electronic Evidence, 4 Boston University Journal of Science and Technology 5 (1988) (with David Byer)

  • Review of Recent Developments Under SLUSA, ALI-ABA course in securities litigation (with Brian Pastuszenski)

Forthcoming Publications

Selected Achievements

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung moderated the panel “Municipal Fiscal Stress and Community Response” at the Community Renewal and Its Discontents conference at Albany Law School on November 3, 2017.

  • ​​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung presented at the Business Law Society event “The Stock Market and the Election” at Albany Law School on December 1, 2016.

  • ​​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung presented “Focus Groups and Pathway Competences” at the 5th Annual Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference in Denver on September 22, 2016.

  • ​Professor Christine Chung spoke on a panel for the New York State Bar Association about Municipal Law and Finance, along with Albany Law graduates Amanda Godkin and Matthew Mobilia. Panel arranged by adjunct Ken Bond.

  • Professor Chung (on behalf of the Albany Law School/University at Albany Institute for Financial Market Regulation), organized and moderated a panel on dark pools, high-frequency trading, market structure, and related issues. Panelists included senior staff from the Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA, along with a leading expert from the private sector.
  • Professor Christine Chung moderated a panel on dark pools at the SUNY Global Center in New York City on April 24, 2014.

  • Professor Christine Chung gave a talk at "Distressed Municipal Financing: Navigating Uncharted Waters," a symposium presented by the Review of Banking & Financial Law and held at Boston University School of Law on Feb. 7, 2014.

  • Professor Christine Chung participated in Fordham Urban Law Journal’s Cooper-Walsh Colloquium on “Legacy Liabilities and Municipal Financial Distress” on Oct. 11, 2013.

    She also spoke at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering on Oct. 24, 2013, about legal issues that start-ups and entrepreneurs should consider when forming a business.
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    Professor Christine Chung participated in a panel at a symposium on "Financial Transparency and the Role of Government" at the University at Albany on Oct. 23, 2012.

     

  • Professor Chung spoke at a symposium organized by the WIdener Law Review on municipal fiscal distress and recovery. She has written (and submitted) an article of the same name for publication in the symposium edition.

In the News

  • Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung was quoted in the Times Union column "Fred LeBrun: Dr. K outcome is suspect" on December 8, 2018.

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung joined Spectrum News' "Capital Tonight" for the segment "When the Lawyer is in Legal Trouble" on November 30, 2018.

  • ​Professor Mary A. Lynch and Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung joined "The Capitol Pressroom" for a discussion on the Kavanaugh nomination and FBI investigation, and the larger conversation surrounding sexual assault on October 3, 2018.

  • ​Professor Mary A. Lynch and Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung joined "The Capitol Pressroom" for a conversation on how we discuss sexual assault on September 25, 2018. 

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung joined Spectrum News' "Capital Tonight" on August 10, 2018, in the wake of the Rep. Chris Collins indictment, to discuss how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigates issues like insider trading.​

  • Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung joined "The Capitol Pressroom" on August 8, 2018, to discuss the insider trading indictment of Rep. Chris Collins.

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung was quoted in the Times Union article "Several possible avenues for appeal after Kaloyeros verdict" on July 18, 2018.​

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung was a guest on Spectrum News' "In Focus" for the segment "Are shared services getting to the root of the problem?" on March 11, 2018.​

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung was quoted in a New York Post article about the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco on January 21, 2018.

  • ​​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung spoke with WAMC for the segment "Infrastructure Series: Delivering Clean Safe Drinking Water" on December 14, 2017.

  • ​ Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung, along with former NYS Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch, joined “The Capitol Pressroom” to discuss Puerto Rico’s debt crisis on November 22, 2017.

  • ​​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung spoke with WAMC radio for the segment "Albany Law to Host Conference on Blight" on October 27, 2017.

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung joined The Capitol Pressroom to discuss the Puerto Rico debt crisis on October 24, 2017.

  • ​​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung joined Spectrum News' Capital Tonight to discuss Puerto Rico's debt crisis on October 13, 2017.

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung was quoted in The Alt article “Are SUNY Poly’s real estate ventures a benefit or burden to Albany?” on April 19, 2017.

  • ​​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung appeared on Spectrum News' "In Focus" for the segment "Expert: Albany Not Alone in Capital City Budget Problems" on March 12, 2017.

  • ​​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung was quoted in the Newsday article "Oyster Bay changes borrowing procedures to comply with laws" on February 7, 2017.

  • ​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung was quoted in the article "How will indictment affect LPCiminelli?" in the Buffalo News on December 2, 2016.

  • ​​Professor Christine Sgarlata Chung gave expert advice in the Associated Press article "How to do a background check on financial advisers," which was published by outlets nationwide including ABC News, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

  • ​Professor Christine Chung gave expert analysis and advice in the A-1 story "Tough to spot likely crooks: Investors seeking to guard against theft have few tools to avoid scam artists" in the Times Union on February 21, 2016.


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