Scholarship

A Federal Vision of the Securities Law

Edmund W. Kitch

Date

1984

Citation

Edmund W. Kitch, A Federal Vision of the Securities Law, 70 Virginia Law Review, 857–873 (1984).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Edmund W. Kitch

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Intellectual Property

Center for Public Law and Political Economy

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