Joan MacLeod Heminway
Associate Professor of Law
- A.B., 1982, Brown University
- J.D., 1985, New York University
Before joining the UT College of Law faculty in 2000, Prof. Joan Heminway spent 15 years in corporate practice working in the areas of public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings.
Now, as one of the College’s most prolific legal scholars, she has focused her recent research and writing on federal securities fraud regulation and litigation and state law issues relating to officer and director loyalty, good faith, and candor. Not surprisingly, with issues from corporate America in the news every day, Prof. Heminway’s classes in Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Corporate Finance, and Representing Enterprises are in high demand with UT law students.
“With continuous revelations of fraudsters like Enron and Bernard Madoff and uncertainty around the necessity of public disclosures of price-sensitive information, disclosure regulation has assumed great public visibility,” Prof. Heminway said. “Given that our securities markets are in disarray, the integrity and capability of the SEC is in question, and the world economic crisis is far from over, concerns about investor-focused disclosures are likely to be of continued importance in the public debate over, among other things, the nature and extent of regulation as opposed to reliance on markets to self-regulate and the culpability of various public and private actors in the securities markets.”
Prof. Heminway is a frequent source for state and national media in these areas, and her scholarship appears regularly in law reviews and journals throughout academia. In particular, her scholarship regarding Martha Stewart and insider trading garnered considerable national attention.
Prof. Heminway has been a “cameo” lecturer in the UT Executive MBA Program and has been a visiting professor at Boston College Law School and Vanderbilt University Law School. She also has an interest in issues related to animal law, including especially the ways in which pets frequently become issues in family violence cases. She has also been honored for her work with the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project in Boston, her home prior to joining the UT faculty.