Renee Jones
associate professor
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BACKGROUND 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 is a member of the American Law Institute and 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. EDUCATION A.B., Princeton University; J.D., Harvard University. Promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure. WORKS IN PROGRESS The SEC's Revolving Door and the Impact on Enforcement Enforcing Directors Duties in the US and Australia: A Comparative Analysis, (with Michelle Welsh) RECENT PRESENTATIONS Invited Panelist, Panel on Federalism and Corporate Governance, Southeast Association of Law Schools, July 18, 2011, Hilton Head, South Carolina (upcoming) Invited Participant, Corporate Law Discussion Group on the Dodd- Frank Act, Southeast Association of Law Schools, July 28, 2011, Hilton head, South Carolina Panelist, Enforcing Directors Duties: A Comparative Analysis, Law and Society Annual Meeting, June 205, San Francisco, CA (with Michelle Welsh, co-author) (upcoming) Commentator, George Washington University Law School, Junior Faculty Forum, April 1-2, 2011, Washington, D.C. (comments on paper by Mehrsa Baradan, BYU Law School) Invited Participant, Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in a Post-Crisis World, Notre Dame Law School, April 1, 2011, South Bend, IN The SEC's Revolving Door and the Problem of Institutional Corruption, Faculty Workshop, Boston College Law School, August 4, 2010 Invited Participant, Roundtable on Restructuring Financial Regulation, sponsored by the Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance, Emory University Law School, April 30-May 1, 2010, Atlanta, GA Invited Panelist, "Corporate and Financial Regulation Scholarship: Where Did We Go Wrong?" The Loyola University Chicago, April 16, 2010, Chicago, IL Invited Panelist, Association of American Law School's Annual Meeting, Section on Business Associations Panel "The Financial Collapse and Recovery Effort: What Does it Mean for Corporate Governance?" January 10, 2010, New Orleans Invited Participant, Conference on Delaware Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith After Disney: Meaningful or Mickey Mouse?, New York Law School, November 13, 2009 Invited Participant, Conference on The Past, Present, and Future of the SEC, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, October 16, 2009 The Future of Financial Regulation, “Dialogue Dinner” with Boston College Law School Alumni Providence, RI, September 30, 2009 Back to Basics: Why Financial Regulatory Overhaul is Overrated, Faculty Workshop, Boston College Law School, July 22, 2009 Invited Participant, Roundtable on Layering Governance: Multi-Level Regulation Under Bush and Beyond, sponsored by the Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance, Emory University Law School, April 30-May 1, 2009 Presentations Other Fall 2011: Securities Regulation
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