4/23/07--Boston College Law School announced the tenure and promotion of Professor Renee M. Jones from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure. BC Law Dean John H. Garvey called the promotion of Professor Jones "both welcome and well deserved."

Professor Jones teaches and writes in the corporate area.  Her scholarship focuses on corporate governance, corporate ethics and the federal-state relationship in corporate regulation.  She has written several important articles on corporate federalism.  Her work has been cited in the Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, New York University and Michigan Law Reviews. Her article Rethinking Corporate Federalism in the Era of Corporate Reform (Iowa Journal of Corporate Law)[link] was reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator as one of the top corporate law articles of the year.  It was selected for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in January 2004.  She has also presented her work at Wake Forest, Washington & Lee, Connecticut, Northeastern and Maryland law schools.

During the 2005-2006 academic year Professor Jones held a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, where she examined the relationship between corporate law and the ethics of American corporate leaders.  Her article Law, Norms, and the Breakdown of the Board: Promoting Accountability in Corporate Governance (Iowa Law Review) [link] analyzes the influence of social norms on the conduct of corporate officers and directors.  The article recommends reforms to the director liability regime to better motivate corporate officials to fulfill their fiduciary duties.  Professor Jones presented this article in January 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools as part of a distinguished panel discussing recent Delaware court decisions in the landmark Walt Disney Company Derivative Litigation.

Before joining BC Law in 2002, Professor Jones practiced for eight years at the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow where she represented private and public companies on corporate and securities matters.

Professor Jones received her B.A. from Princeton University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.