JOAN MACLEOD HEMINWAY, J.D. is an Associate Professor of Law at The University of Tennessee College of Law. Her current courses, offered through the College of Law's James L. Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law, include business associations, corporate finance, representing enterprises (a transaction simulation course), and securities regulation. Her stock merger module in the representing enterprises course was recognized by UT's Innovative Technology Center in its September 2002 Best Practices@UT Showcase. In addition, Professor Heminway received the University Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006, the College of Law's Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence for 2005, and the College of Law's Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher for 2004. She was a visiting professor at Boston College Law School in the Fall 2005 semester and a visiting professor for a "short course" at Vanderbilt Law School in the Spring 2007 semester. She has taught in the College of Law's study abroad program in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the spring of 2007 and 2008. In October 2006, Professor Heminway was elected to The American Law Institute, an organization established to promote clarification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to better secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and carry on scholarly and scientific work.
In 2007, Carolina Academic Press released a book edited and co-written by Professor Heminway, entitled Martha Stewart's Legal Troubles, a collection of works by legal scholars specializing in white collar crime, securities regulation, and corporate governance. Professor Heminway's research agenda currently focuses on U.S. insider trading regulation and other areas of securities disclosure law and policy. Her interests in this area extend to feminist and gendered perspectives on corporate and securities law. Scholarly works written by Professor Heminway include: Does Sarbanes-Oxley Foster the Existence of Ethical Executive Role Models in the Corporation?, 3 Md. J. Bus. Tech. L. 221 (2008); Personal Facts About Executive Officers: A Proposal for Tailored Disclosures to Encourage Reasonable Investor Behavior, 42 Wake Forest L. Rev. 749 (2007); Hell Hath No Fury Like an Investor Scorned: Retribution, Deterrence, Restoration, and the Criminalization of Securities Fraud under Rule 10b-5, 2 Md. J. Bus. Tech. L. 3 (2007); Sex, Trust, and Corporate Boards, 18 Hastings W.L.J. 173 (2007); Martha Stewart Saved! Insider Violations of Rule 10b-5 for Misrepresented or Undisclosed Personal Facts, 65 Md. L. Rev. 380 (2006); Rock, Paper, Scissors: Choosing the Right Vehicle for Federal Corporate Governance Initiatives, 10 Fordham J. of Corp. & Fin. Law 225 (2005); Materiality Guidance in the Context of Insider Trading: A Call to Action, 52 Am. U. L. Rev. 1131 (2003); Enron's Tangled Web: Complex Relationships; Unanswered Questions, 71 Univ. Cin. L. Rev. 1167 (2007); and Save Martha Stewart? Observations About Equal Justice in U.S. Insider Trading Regulation, 12 Tex. J. of Women & L. 247 (2003).
Professor Heminway came to the University of Tennessee and East Tennessee in 2000 after spending almost 15 years in private practice at the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, a multinational, full-service law firm. At Skadden, Professor Heminway specialized in corporate transactions, including principally mergers and acquisitions and public and private securities offerings (both debt and equity). Professor Heminway received her J.D. degree in 1985 from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Moot Court Journal, and her A.B. degree in International Relations and History in 1982 from Brown University, magna cum laude.
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