Albany Law School

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

Christine Chung, appointed assistant professor of law in 2010, joined Albany Law's faculty in 2007 as assistant clinical professor of law and director of the Securities Arbitration Clinic. She was previously 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 states 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's research interests include regulatory architecture and regulatory reform, risk management (including systemic risk management), compliance, corporate governance and feminist jurisprudence, with a focus on the challenges facing financial institutions and their customers, investors and employees. She also is interested in exploring the historical underpinnings of current system of financial market regulation. She frequently presents on issues arising from the current financial crisis.

Professor Chung is co-director of the joint Albany Law School / UAlbany / Institute for Financial Market Regulation.

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).

Municipal Securities: The Crisis of State and Local Government Indebtedness, Systemic Costs of Low Default Rates, and Opportunities for Reform, Cardozo Law Review

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)

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)

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

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

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)