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Professor Heminway brought nearly 15 years of corporate practice experience to the University of Tennessee College of Law when she joined the faculty in 2000. She practiced transactional business law (working in the areas of public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings) in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1985 through 2000.

She has served as an expert witness and consultant on business entity and finance and federal and state securities law matters and is a frequent academic and continuing legal education presenter on business law issues. Professor Heminway also has represented pro bono clients on political asylum applications, landlord/tenant appeals, social security/disability cases, and not-for-profit incorporations and related business law issues. Read More

The University of Iowa College of Law

Faculty Hiring Announcement

The University of Iowa College of Law anticipates hiring lateral faculty members in the areas of Family Law and Business Law.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: To apply, candidates should submit a letter of interest, CV, a list of three references, and a law school transcript through Jobs@UIOWA, https://jobs.uiowa.edu, refer to Requisition #75522. 

Consistent with the mission and responsibilities of a top-tier public research university, we are interested in candidates who are recognized scholars and teachers and who will participate actively in the intellectual life of the College of Law.  In addition, we desire candidates with a demonstrated ability to maintain effective and respectful working relationships with the campus community to uphold a standard of cultural competency and respect for differences. We also desire candidates who would bring significant new scholarly strengths to the College of Law. Candidates who can contribute to these goals are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in these areas.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

  • Experience teaching in the
  • Business Transactional Skills Professor
    University of Richmond School of Law

    The University of Richmond School of Law is seeking applicants for a full-time faculty member to teach business law courses, including transactional skills courses. The position will begin in the summer or fall of 2025. The full position description is here — law.richmond.edu/faculty/hiring.html.

    Our new hire will teach one section of Business Associations (our foundational business law course), Mergers & Acquisitions, and two transactional skills courses. The skills courses will emphasize experiential learning, allowing students to work on assignments that resemble the type of work they will do in practice and to develop skills as legal and business advisors to their clients. Candidates must have several years of practice experience in business transactional law and a J.D. from a U.S. accredited law school.

    This is a non-tenure track position that focuses on teaching and mentoring students during the nine-month academic year. Depending on experience, a successful candidate will be hired as an Assistant or Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice and will be eligible for promotion and five-year presumptively renewable contracts upon promotion to Professor of Law, Legal Practice.

    The University of Richmond is a private university located just

    At the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools earlier this month, the Section on Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Unincorporated Associations (for which I was the outgoing Chair) focused its principal panel on the intersection of the section’s mandate with technology. As might be expected, blockchains and generative artificial intelligence (AI) were a core focus. It was exciting to hear about some of the work being done in this space.

    I was reminded as I was listening to the speakers about an article that I knew was forthcoming. I checked in with the author this past week and it has, in fact, now been published. The article is Zhaoyi Li‘s Artificial Fiduciaries, available here through the Washington and Lee Law Review and here on SSRN. Here’s the SSRN abstract.

    The rapid development of technology in the last decade has affected all levels of society. Corporate governance has not been immune to these changes. In the future, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) fiduciaries may be technologically capable of serving as independent corporate directors. This could be an effective way to address the challenge of the absence of truly independent directors in the traditional governance framework. Artificial fiduciaries could also

    I managed to hold off for a few weeks–and then for the past 24-48 hours (or so)–in reporting back on the current state of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). But the U.S. Supreme Court has again spoken, and so it is time to do an update (since little more is likely to happen over the weekend). FinCEN, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, summarizes the current state of play, an update from my post earlier this month.

    On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the government’s motion to stay a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas (Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. McHenry—formerly, Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland). As a separate nationwide order issued by a different federal judge in Texas (Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury) still remains in place, reporting companies are not currently required to file beneficial ownership information with FinCEN despite the Supreme Court’s action in Texas Top Cop Shop. Reporting companies also are not subject to liability if they fail to file this information while the Smith order remains in force. However, reporting companies may continue to voluntarily submit beneficial ownership information reports.

    And so it

    The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law is excited to invite nominations and applications for the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence in Law. Memphis Law seeks academic leaders with a record of distinguished scholarship, demonstrated excellence in teaching, the ambition to lead the scholarly and intellectual life at the law school, and the capacity and drive to enhance the law school’s regional and national reputation. The appointment will be made at the rank of full professor with tenure. As a member of the faculty, the Chair of Excellence is expected to engage in high-level scholarly research and publication, excel in the classroom, and actively participate in faculty governance and service. The Chair of Excellence is expected to actively engage with faculty, both within the Law School and the University and throughout the country; to provide leadership for integrative research activities and significant engagement with academic and professional organizations; to support the scholarly activities of the law faculty; and to provide programmatic leadership, including developing and administering symposia. The chair is expected to engage with students, lawyers, judges, and other academic professionals. Memphis Law offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and a generous annual stipend to

    Mercer University School of Law invites applications for up to two faculty members (one entry-level and one tenured), with appointments beginning in Fall 2025. We welcome applicants from all subject areas, with a particular focus on legal writing, commercial law, contracts, evidence, and remedies.

    Founded in 1873, Mercer University School of Law has a long tradition of producing practice-ready lawyers who are committed to service. The school has earned a reputation for providing excellent legal education with an intense focus on student and faculty interaction. With an enrollment of approximately 375 students, Mercer Law School is one of 12 schools and colleges of Mercer University, which is consistently listed among the top institutions of higher education in the nation. The School of Law is nationally recognized for its exceptional programs in legal writing, advocacy (moot court and mock trial), public service, and professionalism and ethics.

    The School of Law is located in Macon, Georgia, a city of approximately 156,000 residents. Macon is known for its rich musical heritage (e.g., Otis Redding, Little Richard, the Allman Brothers), vibrant arts community, recreational offerings (e.g., the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park), and affordable cost of living. Located 85 miles from Atlanta, Macon offers

    The announcement set forth below relating to this spring’s conference focusing on the theme of “Integrating Doctrine, Practice, and Pedagogy to Prepare the Business and Transactional Attorneys of the Future,” was distributed earlier today by The Center for Transactional Law and Practice at Emory Law.

    Announcement
    By now, we hope that you’ve all seen the Press Release announcing the historic 6 million dollar gift from Emory’s emeritus professor Bill Carney for the formation of the William and Jane Carney Center for Business and Transactional Law.We are thrilled to jointly present this Conference, which will celebrate three pillars of the new Carney Center: doctrine, practice, and pedagogy. We will welcome you as scholars, lawyers, and teachers engaged in preparing students to become business and transactional attorneys.

    The Conference will be held at Emory, beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, May 30, 2025, and ending at 3:45 p.m. on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Information about registration and accommodations is forthcoming.
    Call for Proposals
    We are accepting proposals immediately, from now through the end of March. You may present alone or with colleagues.  Please prepare to give a 60-minute, interactive presentation on any aspect of business and transactional law and skills education viewed

    Fellow Commissioners Peirce, Crenshaw, and Uyeda offered kind words in a statement issued earlier today on Gary Gensler’s last day on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the statement, Chair Gensler was praised for being “committed to bipartisan engagement and a respectful exchange of ideas.” The statement ended with a lovely personal testament of gratitude.

    Thank you, Chair, for your leadership, your zealous advocacy on behalf of our agency and investors, and your friendship. We are proud to have served this great agency alongside you. Your extensive public service over the past thirty years cautions against saying goodbye; instead, we will say – so long for now.

    Chair Gensler also released a video on YouTube relating to his departure from the SEC, which you can find here. It is a useful, quick retrospective. At just a bit more than six minutes in length, it covers a bunch. I offered it up to the students in my Securities Regulation course as something they might want to watch. Among other things, he highlights the core policy underpinnings of federal securities regulation as the video progresses.

    As the new SEC takes shape, I am sure we all will have more to

    We are here today because we are tired. We are tired of paying more for less. We are tired of living in rat-infested slums… We are tired of having to pay a median rent of $97 a month in Lawndale for four rooms while whites living in South Deering pay $73 a month for five rooms. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children . . . .

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Chicago Soldier Field Stadium, Chicago Open Housing Movement, 1966

    Each year, as the Monday-focused blogger for the Business Law Prof Blog, I endeavor to offer a post that connects with Dr. King’s work in some way. Today, which also is the day on which the United States inaugurates a new presidential administration, I focus on the role of federal regulation in creating and sustaining racial separation and racism. In 2020, The University of Tennessee College of Law produced a faculty video series labeled “How Did We Get Here.” The series focused on areas in which law or policy has contributed to systemic racism.

    The video in the series I

    [Posted at the request of friend-of-the-BLPB Paolo Farrah]

    Dear Colleagues,

    I am pleased to share the Call for Papers for an ESIL-supported event titled “Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework,” organized in collaboration among our three interest groups: the ESIL IG on European and International Rule of Law, the ESIL IG on International Environmental Law, and the ESIL IG on International Economic Law. The event will take place at École Normale Supérieure – Paris Sciences et Lettres (ENS-PSL) on 6-7 June 2025.

    The Call for Papers is open until 28 February 2025, and you can find further details here.

    We look forward to receiving your abstracts and to meeting you in Paris in June 2025.

    Best regards,
    Paolo Farah

    (On behalf of the ESIL IG on European and International Rule of Law, ESIL IG on International Environmental Law, and ESIL IG on International Economic Law)