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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

St. Mary’s University School of Law, the oldest Catholic university in the Southwest and the only law school in San Antonio, Texas, is seeking exceptional candidates for tenured and tenure-track faculty positions to start in the 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 academic years. 

We are building on our deep history of academic excellence and servant leadership, and we are eager to welcome new members into our vibrant intellectual community.

We are particularly interested in candidates with outstanding academic credentials, successful practice experience, a demonstrated record of scholarly research and publication, and a dedication to teaching excellence. We place great emphasis on fostering a supportive and engaging learning environment, and we are eager to find candidates who excel in the classroom and inspire students to achieve their best.

We are open to passionate and innovative teachers and scholars in all areas.  There are also some select Chair opportunities for strong lateral candidates in the areas of business law (to include tax), natural resources, and oil and gas.

St. Mary’s Law is committed to upholding the Marianist mission. Since our foundation in 1852 by the Society of Mary (Marianists), we have strived to integrate the liberal arts with professional studies, fostering a community where…

Friend-of-the-BLPB Beth Burch has announced that the University of Georgia School of Law is conducting an open-rank search for four or five full-time, tenure-track or tenured faculty. Hiring priorities include multiple business law areas–contracts, bankruptcy, and secured transactions–as well as property, torts, environmental law, business law/corporations, banking, international law, administrative law, and employment law. You can find the posting here.

If you’re interested, feel free to reach out to Beth at LawHiring@uga.edu.

Friend of the BLPB Geeta Kohli (formerly Tewari) at Widener Law Delaware recently launched a newsletter on Substack called Defining Money that may be of interest to business law profs and their students (as well as others). She circulated a message about the newsletter through the AALS Section on Business Associations listserv earlier this week–very timely as we all start to prepare for fall classes. I have checked the newsletter out. Geeta covers a bunch of great topics (some traditional in the business law space and some nontraditional but truly helpful–including for family businesses and the divorce and trust/estate law areas that intersect with family business practice) informed by her business law background and personal experience. Here is what she personally noted in the listserv message.

I’ve recently launched a newsletter called Defining Money, where each week I break down a finance or business law term and pair it with a short story or example-designed especially for those of us who may have experienced financial issues or abuse. After the semester starts, I’ll be focusing more on contract and business related terms.

This project grew out of my desire to make financial concepts more accessible, particularly for students navigating…

From friend of the BLPB Emily Winston:

The University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law seeks to hire multiple entry-level and experienced faculty. We are especially interested in faculty who teach and write in the areas of Clinical Legal Education, Environmental Law, Business and Finance Law, International Law, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy, and Constitutional Law. Outstanding candidates from other areas will be considered and are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be hired on the tenure-track or with tenure. 

Candidates should have a Juris Doctor or equivalent degree. Additionally, a successful applicant should have a record of excellence in academia or in practice, the potential to be an outstanding teacher, and demonstrable scholarly promise.

Interested persons should apply as follows:

1. Go to: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/search

2. Enter the posting number FAC00072PO25, or click on the link below:

3. Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor (General): uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/188094

4. Complete the application.

A formal application is required to be considered. Applicants are welcome to contact the hiring committee with any questions regarding the application process at hiring@law.sc.edu.  We anticipate beginning to review applications on August 1.

The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or decisions…

It was great to see many of you last week in Los Angeles for the National Business Law Scholars conference at UCLA Law. It was, as always, a positive whirlwind of activity. The array of panels and topics was, as usual impressive. The full agenda can be found here. Michael Dorff and his team did an amazing job of welcoming (and feeding!) us throughout the two days of sessions. As a former host of the conference, I know how tough that can be. We all owe them a debt of gratitude.

I was fortunate to be able to both participate in the opening plenary on the recent changes to Delaware corporate law and also present some of my research and ideas on ESG and corporate compliance.

In the former, I invoked Larry Hammermesh’s amazingly insightful 2006 article in the Columbia Law Review. If you haven’t ever–or recently–read it and are researching or writing about Delaware lawmaking, it is a “must read.” As I noted in the plenary session at the conference, Tennessee attempts to emulate the key parts of the process Larry describes as and when it can. In addition to sharing some of my own views about…

Call for Papers

The University of Richmond School of Law, in partnership with the University of Illinois College of Law, UCLA School of Law, and Vanderbilt Law School, invites submissions for the Twelfth Annual Workshop for Corporate & Securities Litigation. This workshop will be held on Thursday, October 23 and the morning of Friday, October 24, 2025 in Richmond, Virginia. 

Overview 

This annual workshop brings together scholars focused on corporate and securities litigation to present their scholarly works. Papers addressing any aspect of corporate and securities litigation or enforcement are eligible, including securities class actions, fiduciary duty litigation, and SEC enforcement actions. We welcome scholars working in a variety of methodologies, as well as both completed papers and works-in-progress. Authors whose papers are selected will be invited to present their work at a workshop hosted by the University of Richmond School of Law. Participants will pay for their own travel, lodging, and other expenses. 

Submissions 

If you are interested in participating, please send the paper you would like to present, or an abstract of the paper, to corpandsecworkshop@gmail.com by Friday, June 20, 2025. Please include your name, current position, and contact information in the e-mail accompanying the submission. Authors…

This Article preliminarily explores the contours of ESG information as a potential basis for unlawful insider trading under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rule 10b-5 adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 10(b). Insider trading violations under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 are rooted in a person’s (1) trading of securities while in possession of material

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Earlier this week, The University of Tennessee Frank Winston College of Law (yes, a new name, with a great story behind it!) announced my appointment as the incoming director of the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law. You can find the full story here. I posted the news on social media earlier in the week. Thanks to those of you who commented and contacted me in response to those posts.

As I said there and have told many of you, I am truly excited to take on this new role for the academic program in which I have worked for 25 years–the program that brought me to Tennessee and the College of Law in 2000 after nearly 15 years of practice up in Boston, Massachusetts. I assume the directorship on August 1. I am grateful to the center’s interim director, Brian Krumm, who has ably managed the center since the 2024 retirement of longtime director George Kuney.

The Clayton Center is rooted in entrepreneurship, being the namesake of James L. Clayton, a 1964 graduate of the Winston College of Law who is the founder of Knoxville-based Clayton Homes, Inc., now a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

STETSON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW, Florida’s first law school, invites applicants from entry-level and lateral candidates for several faculty positions. Our hiring priorities focus on candidates who are enthusiastic about enhancing our existing institutional strengths and helping us develop new areas of excellence. We welcome applications from qualified candidates across all areas and specializations. Specifically, we seek individuals with expertise in business law, civil procedure, constitutional law, criminal law, legal research and writing, professional responsibility, and tax law.

The Faculty Appointments Committee will review applicants until all positions are filled. The review of lateral applicants will begin in May and will continue on a rolling basis throughout the summer.

Stetson Law was founded in 1900 and is excited to celebrate its 125th Anniversary this year. Stetson Law has a national reputation for its advocacy program, ranked #1 in the nation, and its legal writing program, ranked #3 in the nation, by U.S. News and World Report. It also boasts renowned centers, institutes, and clinics in various fields, such as advocacy, elder law, higher education, biodiversity and the environment, legal communication, Caribbean law, and veterans law.

Stetson University includes a College of Arts and Sciences, a School of Music, and a…