Christina Sautter
@csautter.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Research & Law Prof, SMU Dedman School of Law. Co-Founder, Secretary, Bd Director-Center for Retail Investors & Corporate Inclusion.
Fascinated by #WirelessInvestors
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Fascinated by #WirelessInvestors
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Christina Sautter
@csautter.bsky.social
· Feb 20
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M&A students & profs - Office Hours on Mergers and Acquisitions was released on the West Academic Study Aids & Reference Collection site. There’s 12 recordings (plus transcripts) covering the basics of M&A: subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?...
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
M&A students & profs - Office Hours on Mergers and Acquisitions was released on the West Academic Study Aids & Reference Collection site. There’s 12 recordings (plus transcripts) covering the basics of M&A: subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?...
Very much looking forward to participating in the “Investor Preferences and Corporate Governance” workshop to be held at the University of Bologna and co-sponsored by the Center for Retail Investors & Corporate Inclusion. I’ll be presenting my WIP “Corporate Disenfranchisement”
September 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Very much looking forward to participating in the “Investor Preferences and Corporate Governance” workshop to be held at the University of Bologna and co-sponsored by the Center for Retail Investors & Corporate Inclusion. I’ll be presenting my WIP “Corporate Disenfranchisement”
SMU Law is looking to hire 2 entry-level, tenure-track faculty members in Civ Pro & Leg Reg and Law & Tech, inc AI. Candidates must apply by Sept 15 via Interfolio (link 👇) to be considered. I’m on the appointments Cmte & happy to answer questions
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July 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
SMU Law is looking to hire 2 entry-level, tenure-track faculty members in Civ Pro & Leg Reg and Law & Tech, inc AI. Candidates must apply by Sept 15 via Interfolio (link 👇) to be considered. I’m on the appointments Cmte & happy to answer questions
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Colleen Baker & I wrote a short piece titled “Democratization of the Private Markets?” focusing on closed-end funds investing in private company equity. It was just published by Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law.
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Democratization of the Private Markets?
<p><span>U.S. initial public offerings are declining and the amount of private market assets under management are exploding. Simultaneously, the number of retai
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July 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Colleen Baker & I wrote a short piece titled “Democratization of the Private Markets?” focusing on closed-end funds investing in private company equity. It was just published by Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Reposted by Christina Sautter
So great to sit down w/ the Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, @csautter.bsky.social & Sergio Gramitto Ricci to talk about democracy & corporations.
You can't understand what's going on in U.S. politics w/out understanding what happened to "corporate democracy."
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You can't understand what's going on in U.S. politics w/out understanding what happened to "corporate democracy."
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A Corporate Government
Podcast Episode · Bite-Sized Business Law · 07/08/2025 · 44m
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July 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So great to sit down w/ the Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, @csautter.bsky.social & Sergio Gramitto Ricci to talk about democracy & corporations.
You can't understand what's going on in U.S. politics w/out understanding what happened to "corporate democracy."
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
You can't understand what's going on in U.S. politics w/out understanding what happened to "corporate democracy."
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Great speaking with Columbia Journalism Review - Paramount will pay Trump $16 million to settle "60 Minutes" suit.! 🦋
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Paramount Will Pay President Trump $16 Million to Settle 60 Minutes Lawsuit
“It is a dark day for independent journalism,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Great speaking with Columbia Journalism Review - Paramount will pay Trump $16 million to settle "60 Minutes" suit.! 🦋
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I wrote a short commentary on Delaware SB 21 for @promarket.bsky.social. Check it out below!
NEW: @csautter.bsky.social writes that the passage of Senate Bill 21, which rebalances power away from shareholders to corporate management, represents a 150-year-long development in corporate law spurred by regulatory capture that has removed countless restrictions on firm behavior.
Delaware’s SB21 Continues 150 Years of Corporate Power and Regulatory Capture - ProMarket
Christina M. Sautter writes that the passage of Senate Bill 21, which rebalances power away from shareholders to corporate management, represents a 150-year-long development in corporate law spurred by regulatory capture that has removed countless restrictions on firm behavior.
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June 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I wrote a short commentary on Delaware SB 21 for @promarket.bsky.social. Check it out below!
Reposted by Christina Sautter
First was a fantastic discussion with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and @csautter.bsky.social on the history of the concept of shareholder democracy and its fraught present on @busscholarship.bsky.social. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=61kz... (2/7)
Business Scholarship Podcast - Ep.249 – Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and Christina Sautter on...
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June 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
First was a fantastic discussion with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and @csautter.bsky.social on the history of the concept of shareholder democracy and its fraught present on @busscholarship.bsky.social. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=61kz... (2/7)
Want to hear how shareholder democracy is a lie? Check out the latest episode of the @busscholarship.bsky.social hosted by @AndrewjJennings.bsky.social. Sergio Gramitto Ricci (@hofstra.baky.social) & I were delighted to talk about “The Shareholder Democracy Lie”
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June 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Want to hear how shareholder democracy is a lie? Check out the latest episode of the @busscholarship.bsky.social hosted by @AndrewjJennings.bsky.social. Sergio Gramitto Ricci (@hofstra.baky.social) & I were delighted to talk about “The Shareholder Democracy Lie”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=61kz...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=61kz...
Sergio Gramitto Ricci & I were invited to write an Encyclopedia entry on Compliance for Stakeholders and Reputation. We’d love to get your feedback! You can download it here:
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Compliance for Stakeholders and Reputation
This draft encyclopedia entry examines the evolving relationship between corporate compliance and reputation management in contemporary business environments. I
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June 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Sergio Gramitto Ricci & I were invited to write an Encyclopedia entry on Compliance for Stakeholders and Reputation. We’d love to get your feedback! You can download it here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Very excited to be named Associate Dean for Research at SMU Law School. Looking forward to promoting the great work of our outstanding faculty and community!
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Professor Christina Sautter Named Associate Dean for Research
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June 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Very excited to be named Associate Dean for Research at SMU Law School. Looking forward to promoting the great work of our outstanding faculty and community!
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Sergio Gramitto Ricci & I have been saying that retail investors are here to stay. . . investorsobserver.com/news/record-...
Record Main Street and Wall Street divide: Individual investors been buying stocks for 21 weeks straight | Investorsobserver
“This is a much larger divergence between retail and institutional investors than during the 2022 bear market”
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May 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Sergio Gramitto Ricci & I have been saying that retail investors are here to stay. . . investorsobserver.com/news/record-...
I’m overdue posting this here but I had the most fantastic Ph.D. students at Bocconi last week for my US Securities Law/US Shareholding seminar. Many thanks to Giovanni Strampelli & Gaia Balp for inviting & hosting me. My students gave me permission to post this pic
April 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m overdue posting this here but I had the most fantastic Ph.D. students at Bocconi last week for my US Securities Law/US Shareholding seminar. Many thanks to Giovanni Strampelli & Gaia Balp for inviting & hosting me. My students gave me permission to post this pic
It was great speaking with Phil Prazan and Gromer Jeffers on NBC DFW
about M&A and market uncertainty
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about M&A and market uncertainty
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Lone Star Politics: April 13, 2025
Musical chairs comes after AG ken Paxton announces Senate run. Plus, we speak to an expert about if business deals may dry up amid tariff uncertainty. NBC 5’s Phil Prazan and Gromer Jeffers with the D...
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April 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It was great speaking with Phil Prazan and Gromer Jeffers on NBC DFW
about M&A and market uncertainty
www.nbcdfw.com/news/politic...
about M&A and market uncertainty
www.nbcdfw.com/news/politic...
Very excited to be at Università Bocconi this week teaching a Ph.D. in Law (Business Law Concentration) seminar on U.S. Securities Law/U.S. Shareholding. Many thanks to Giovanni Strampelli & Gaia Balp for the invitation. Thanks also to Hao Jiang for welcoming me today!
April 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Very excited to be at Università Bocconi this week teaching a Ph.D. in Law (Business Law Concentration) seminar on U.S. Securities Law/U.S. Shareholding. Many thanks to Giovanni Strampelli & Gaia Balp for the invitation. Thanks also to Hao Jiang for welcoming me today!
I presented “The Shareholder Democracy Lie” (co-authored w/ Sergio Gramitto Ricci & Dan Greenwood of Hofstra Law & forthcoming in Florida Law Review) ystrdy at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Big thnx to the faculty for their feedback & to Konstantinos Sergakis for hosting me!
March 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I presented “The Shareholder Democracy Lie” (co-authored w/ Sergio Gramitto Ricci & Dan Greenwood of Hofstra Law & forthcoming in Florida Law Review) ystrdy at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Big thnx to the faculty for their feedback & to Konstantinos Sergakis for hosting me!
A new set of wireless investors has begun to be born - Generation Beta. As @WSJ reports, their lives will be shaped by AI & technology like never before. I suspect this generation will begin to invest at a younger age & transform investing norms
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A New Generation Is Here. Its Name Is Already an Insult.
Generation Beta takes its name from the Greek alphabet, but for some parents—and every school-age child—its connotation is less than scholarly.
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March 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A new set of wireless investors has begun to be born - Generation Beta. As @WSJ reports, their lives will be shaped by AI & technology like never before. I suspect this generation will begin to invest at a younger age & transform investing norms
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/a-...
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Check out Sergio Gramitto Ricci, Dan Greenwood, & my @clsblue.bsky.social blog post about our article “The Shareholder Democracy Lie” forthcoming in the Florida Law Review clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2025/03/05/s...
Shareholder Democracy Is a Corporate Governance Myth That Won’t Die – CLS Blue Sky Blog
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March 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Check out Sergio Gramitto Ricci, Dan Greenwood, & my @clsblue.bsky.social blog post about our article “The Shareholder Democracy Lie” forthcoming in the Florida Law Review clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2025/03/05/s...
Many thanks to @nellminow.bsky.social for featuring The Shareholder Democracy Lie and providing her feedback on our articles
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New Scholarship: The Shareholder Democracy Lie
Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci (Hofstra University), Daniel J.H. Greenwood (Hofstra University), and Christina M. Sautter (Southern Methodist University) wrote an article about the gulf between the …
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February 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Many thanks to @nellminow.bsky.social for featuring The Shareholder Democracy Lie and providing her feedback on our articles
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Looking forward to spending the next 5 weeks as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Law School. Many thanks to David Cabrelli and Jonny Hardman for hosting me!
February 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Looking forward to spending the next 5 weeks as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Law School. Many thanks to David Cabrelli and Jonny Hardman for hosting me!
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February 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I’m delighted to announce that “The Shareholder Democracy Lie” co-authored with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci & Daniel Greenwood will be published in the Florida Law Review & is now available for downloading on @SSRN.bsky.social
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February 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I’m delighted to announce that “The Shareholder Democracy Lie” co-authored with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci & Daniel Greenwood will be published in the Florida Law Review & is now available for downloading on @SSRN.bsky.social
bit.ly/ShareholderD.... We’d love to hear any comments you might have!
bit.ly/ShareholderD.... We’d love to hear any comments you might have!
Many thanks to @ssrn.bsky.social for featuring Colleen Baker and my paper “Democratization of the Private Markets?” Download it on SSRN using the below link. It’s forthcoming in Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Many thanks to @ssrn.bsky.social for featuring Colleen Baker and my paper “Democratization of the Private Markets?” Download it on SSRN using the below link. It’s forthcoming in Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Also, looking forward to presenting Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci & my WIP “The Conundrum of Collective Decision-making from the Greek City-State to Virtual Shareholder Meetings” tomorrow at Dublin City University
February 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Also, looking forward to presenting Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci & my WIP “The Conundrum of Collective Decision-making from the Greek City-State to Virtual Shareholder Meetings” tomorrow at Dublin City University
Looking forward to spending the next 3 weeks as a Visiting Scholar at Dublin City University’s School of Law and Government. Many thanks to Goran Dominioni for the invitation and for hosting me!
February 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Looking forward to spending the next 3 weeks as a Visiting Scholar at Dublin City University’s School of Law and Government. Many thanks to Goran Dominioni for the invitation and for hosting me!