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Journal of
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Editorial Policy
We created the Villanova Journal of Law and Investment Management to meet an unmet need. The legal literature lacks a law review devoted to sophisticated discussion of the law of investment management, an area of the law growing exponentially with the industry to which it applies. General law reviews, including business or securities law journals, publish little in the field, and not much of interest to the specialist. We intend the
Journal to provide a much needed outlet for specialized scholarship in the law of investment management and, by providing a dedicated forum, to stimulate new and challenging scholarship.
Such scholarship is needed badly. The extraordinary growth of the investment industry, the volatility of financial markets and the constant evolution of new market structures has triggered the constant evolution of legal structures. Practitioners, regulators and academics alike struggle not only to keep up with that evolution, but to shape it. We hope that the
Journal will help those working in the field both understand and lead the ongoing legal transformation.
To that end, we plan to publish articles focusing primarily on the law of investment companies and investment advisers. Of particular interest will be articles on topics under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, relevant aspects of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the rules of the self-regulatory organizations. Of similar interest will be work on the relevant portions of the state securities, corporations, trust and partnership laws. In addition, we will publish articles on issues under the federal tax laws and ERISA related to investment companies and investment advisers. The
Journal also encourages the submission of work on legal aspects of specialized investment vehicles such as real estate investment trusts
(REITs).
We read the term "investment management" broadly, and will consider publishing articles on problems in broker-dealer law and regulation and, more generally, articles on securities law topics that may be of interest to our audience.
We intend the articles we publish to be "useful," but they may be useful in a variety of senses. Our articles may help practitioners solve actual problems already on their desks. They may analyze and evaluate the practical impact of recent changes in the law. They may also identify practical or policy problems that call out for law reform. Articles published in the
Journal may even crystallize possible solutions to fundamental problems of law and policy. To achieve these goals, the articles we publish may employ traditional doctrinal analysis, policy analysis, empirical analysis or other methodologies.
The Villanova Journal of Law and Investment Management is an independent, academic publication of Villanova University School of Law. It is dedicated to providing an open forum for writers working from all perspectives, from both sides of the regulatory fence and from all sectors of the industry, the government, the bar and the academy. We encourage the submission of articles that take strong or controversial positions, so long as they are well-researched, well-supported and fairly argued. Some of what you may read in the
Journal’s pages may provoke you. If so, we invite you to pick up your pen (or boot up your laptop) and write a responding article. We are confident that the collision of different views will yield a deeper understanding of the law of investment management.
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