Renee M. Jones
Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Professor
Renee Jones teaches and writes in the corporate area. Her courses at
BC Law include Corporations, Securities Regulation, Corporate
Governance and Current Topics in Securities Regulation.
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 article
Rethinking Corporate Federalism in the Era of Corporate Reform (Iowa
Journal of Corporate Law) was reprinted in Corporate Practice
Commentator as one of the top corporate law articles of the year. It
was also selected for presentation to the Section on Securities
Regulation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law
Schools in January 2004.
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)
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 to the Section on Business Associations 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.
Among her
many professional and community activities, Professor Jones has served
as Co-Chair of the Securities Law Committee of the Boston Bar
Association. She has also served as a member of the American Bar
Association House of Delegates, the editorial board of Human Rights
Magazine, and the New England Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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.
She holds an A.B., Princeton University and a J.D., Harvard University.
Professor Jones blogs at: Corporate Law and Democracy.
Robert P. Joy
Partner, Morgan, Brown & Joy
Robert
P. Joy is the chair of the management committee of Morgan, Brown &
Joy. Since he began practicing in 1975, he has handled employment cases
before State and Federal agencies and courts at every level on a wide
range of issues, including successfully arguing Lechmere, Inc. v.
N.L.R.B. before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Bob has
been an active member of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the
American Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association
including Chair of the Private Sector Labor Law Committee and the Equal
Employment Opportunity Law Committee as well as two terms on the Labor
and Employment Law Section Council. He is Chairman of the Litigation
Subcommittee of the National Retail Federation for whom he has filed
several amicus curiae briefs and has lectured and written numerous
articles on labor and employment law. Bob was inducted into the College
of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 1999 and was named one of America's
Leading Business Lawyers in 2003, 2004 and 2005 by Chambers USA. Bob
was named a "Super Lawyer" in the field of employment litigation by
Boston Magazine and was named among the nation's most respected lawyers
in the 2005-2006 edition of The Best Lawyers In America.
Mr. Joy
is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston College Law
School where he is a member of its Board of Overseers.