Joan MacLeod Heminway
College of Law Distinguished Professor of Law
A.B., 1982, Brown University
J.D., 1985, New York University
Joan Heminway
Courses Taught
- Business Associations
- Securities Regulation
- Corporate Finance
- Representing Enterprises
- Animals & the Law
About
Professor Heminway brought nearly 15 years of corporate practice experience when she joined the faculty of the UT College of Law in 2000. She was an attorney in the Boston office of the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1985 through 2000 working in the areas of public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings. She has served as an expert witness and consultant on corporate finance and federal and state securities law matters and is a frequent continuing legal education presenter on business law issues. Professor Heminway also has represented clients pro bono on political asylum applications, landlord/tenant appeals, social security/disability cases, and not-for-profit incorporations and related corporate law issues.
She was honored in 2003 by UT Pro Bono for her work with its Animal Law Project and was recognized on four occasions for her pro bono work with the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project in Boston. Professor Heminway is a member of the American Law Institute; is a Research Fellow of the Center for Corporate Governance, a multi-disciplinary research center at UT; and has been a "cameo" lecturer in the UT Executive MBA program. Her methods and tips for teaching Business Associations are featured in a Carolina Academic Press book entitled Teaching the Law School Curriculum, released in October 2004. Professor Heminway was a Visiting Professor at the Boston College Law School during the Fall 2005 semester and at Vanderbilt University Law School (for a short course) in the Spring 2007 semester. She is President of the UTK Faculty Senate for the 2010-11 academic year.