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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

Out with the old; in with the new.

It’s almost time for a new academic year to start. Like spring, it can be a time of renewal. That is certainly true for me this year.

With my new position as director of our business law program at Tennessee Winston Law, I got a new office. My office move has provided me with many opportunities for reflection. They have been bittersweet.

The pictures above are of the office I inhabited on and off for over 15 years, taken just after I finished moving my last things out. Most of my colleagues thought I would never leave this place. Truthfully, I didn’t ever really got a chance to properly move in originally. (Due to some poor planning and last-minute shenanigans, my assistant was forced to move my books and boxes into the office while I was at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting one year.) The mess that my office became just rolled on from there . . . .

Some of what I found in the move has been quite amusing. I marveled at all the hard copies of bar reference letters, tenure letters, etc. that I had in…

Institute for Law & Economics 
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School  

FOURTH ANNUAL  
JUNIOR FACULTY BUSINESS & FINANCIAL LAW WORKSHOP 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Institute for Law & Economics (ILE) at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is pleased to announce its Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Business & Financial Law Workshop. The Workshop will be held in person on January 23, 2026 at or near Penn Carey Law.  

The Workshop supports and recognizes the work of pre-tenured scholars in tenure-track positions in the business and financial fields, including corporations, securities, finance, accounting, banking, bankruptcy, tax, and general business law, while promoting interactions with such scholars, selected tenured faculty, and practitioners. By providing a forum for the exchange of creative ideas in these areas, ILE also aims to encourage new and innovative scholarship in the business and financial arena. 

Approximately 6 to 8 papers will be chosen from those submitted for presentation at the Workshop. One or more senior scholars and practitioners will comment on each paper, followed by a general discussion of each paper among all participants. The Workshop audience will include invited pre-tenured scholars, faculty from Penn Carey Law, The Wharton School, and other institutions, practitioners…

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is now accepting applications for several tenure-track or tenured positions to begin August 1, 2026. Loyola’s curricular needs include Arbitration, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Environmental Law, Family Law, Health Law, Immigration Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics and related courses. If you are interested in applying, please submit curriculum vitae and cover letter to leonhard@loyno.edu.  All ranks will be considered.


About the College of Law
The College of Law is located in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the United States, with unique cuisine, museums, historical sites, and a flourishing arts and music community. New Orleans is the seat of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Louisiana Supreme Court, Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal, as well as other lower courts. The College of Law has a student population of approximately 500 students, over forty faculty members, active clinics that have spearheaded numerous social justice reform efforts, and summer abroad programs. Its location in Louisiana, one of the world’s best known “mixed jurisdictions,” provides unique opportunities for comparative and international law scholarship. Loyola University is…

Business lawyers understand that corporate directors and officers owe fiduciary duties to the firm. These duties include responsibilities to provide oversight, which are colloquially known under Delaware law (and beyond) as Caremark duties, based on a flagship Delaware Supreme Court opinion, In re Caremark Int’l Inc. Derivative Litig., 698 A.2d 959 (Del. Ch. 1996). Although historically understood by many (yours truly included) as either a separate fiduciary duty of good faith or a component of the fiduciary duty of care, oversight obligations under Delaware law currently are classified as a component of the fiduciary duty of loyalty. According to the Delaware Supreme Court, “because a showing of bad faith conduct … is essential to establish director oversight liability, the fiduciary duty violated by that conduct is the duty of loyalty.” Stone ex rel. AmSouth Bancorporation v. Ritter, 911 A.2d 362, 370 (Del. 2006).  

Successful Caremark claims are difficult to plead and prove, given the relatively high burden of showing bad faith conduct. Historically, almost all claims alleging a breach of Caremark duties in Delaware courts have been dismissed before trial for failure to state a claim. Recently, a case involving Meta Platforms, Inc. directors and officers, including Mark…

The University of Iowa College of Law seeks applicants for one or more tenure-track faculty positions. We have a strong interest in applicants who possess excellence in their academic and professional backgrounds. Entry-level and lateral candidates are welcome to apply.

The College of Law’s primary hiring interest is in business, corporate, and commercial law.

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.

To apply, candidates should submit a letter of interest, CV, a list of three references, a law school transcript, and teaching evaluations (if applicable) through Jobs@UIOWA, https://jobs.uiowa.edu, refer to Requisition #75664.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any misconduct history or…

The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (“UC Law San Francisco,” formerly “UC Hastings”) seeks to hire an entry-level or lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty member to be a productive and impactful scholar and to establish and teach an in- house transactional clinic. As part of UC Law’s Community Justice Clinics, the clinic should serve disenfranchised and disempowered clients or communities while teaching students about the law, legal practice and the role of the law in the quest for social justice. The start date for the position is July 1, 2026. We are interested in applications from entry-level candidates and from professors with clinical teaching experience in the academy.

Applicants should have a serious interest in UC Law San Francisco and living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Candidates should send a CV, statement of research and teaching interests, a one- to two-page transactional clinic proposal, prior course evaluations (from the three most recent years of teaching, if available), and representative publications in .pdf format to Professor of Law Abe Cable, Appointments Committee Chair (appointments2025@uclawsf.edu), with the subject heading “Faculty Position.” The clinic proposal should address in appropriate detail the candidate’s vision for the clients…

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…