Northern Illinois University
College of Law

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David Rosenfeld joined the NIU Law faculty in 2015. He teaches courses in securities regulation, business law and contracts.

Before joining the NIU Law faculty, Professor Rosenfeld worked for many years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As co-head of Enforcement for the SEC’s New York office, Professor Rosenfeld supervised teams of attorneys in investigating and prosecuting violations of the federal securities laws, including cases of insider trading and accounting fraud. Prior to working at the SEC, Professor Rosenfeld was in private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Professor Rosenfeld also taught at the University of Virginia, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. At the SEC, Professor Rosenfeld led numerous prominent investigations, including the Galleon insider trading cases and the New York Stock Exchange Specialist  cases.

Professor Rosenfeld graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and received a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Columbia University.

Areas of Expertise

• Securities regulation
• Business law
• Contracts

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Publications

• Civil Penalties Against Public Companies in SEC Enforcement Actions: An Empirical Analysis, 22 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 135 (2019). (Available in SSRN)
• The Impact of Insider Trading on the Market Price of Securities: Some Evidence from Recent Cases of Unlawful Trading, 44 J. Corp. L. 65 (2018). (Available in SSRN)
  
• Admissions in SEC Enforcement Cases: The Revolution That Wasn't, 103 Iowa L. Rev. 113 (2017). (Available in SSRN)

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