Joan MacLeod Heminway

University of Tennessee College of Law

Professor of Law

1505 West Cumberland Avenue

Knoxville, TN 37996

United States

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1.

Proceed at Your Peril: Crowdfunding and the Securities Act of 1933

Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 78, p. 879, 2011, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 154
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 30 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 18 May 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Shelden Ryan Hoffman
University of Tennessee College of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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crowdfunding, securities, investment contract, registration, exemption, Section 3(b), small business

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What is a Security in the Crowdfunding Era?

7 Ohio St. Entrepren. Bus. L.J. 335 (2012), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 204
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
Downloads 1,237 (34,031)

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JOBS Act, Crowdfund Act, crowdfunding, securities, securities regulation, financial instruments, financial regulation

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Sex, Trust, and Corporate Boards

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Sex, Trust, and Corporate Boards

Hastings Women's Law Journal, Vol. 18, p. 173, 2007
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Apr 2007
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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trust, trustworthiness, sex, gender, board, directors, independence, diversity, bias, corporate governance

Sex, Trust, and Corporate Boards

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Aug 2006
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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sex, gender, trust, corporate governance, director, board

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Save Martha Stewart? Observations About Equal Justice in U.S. Insider Trading Regulation

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Jan 2004
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
Downloads 814 (61,294)
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Insider Trading, Equal Justice, Enforcement Discretion

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Investor and Market Protection in the Crowdfunding Era: Disclosing to and for the 'Crowd'

38 Vt. L. Rev. 827 (2014), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 242
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 May 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
Downloads 773 (65,624)
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securities, crowdfunding, disclosure, JOBS Act, CROWDFUND Act, regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, wisdom, wise, madness, mad, Tulipomania, South Sea Bubble

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The New Intermediary on the Block: Funding Portals under the CROWDFUND Act

UC Davis Business Law Journal, Vol. 13, p. 177 (2013), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 219
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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crowdfunding, intermediary, broker, funding portal

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The Legal Regulation of U.S. Crowdfunding: An Organically Evolving Patchwork

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 335
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 31 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
Downloads 530 (106,069)
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crowdfunding, regulation, law, United States

8.

Buying Assets in Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Asset Purchase Agreement

Transactions: Tenn. Journal Business Law, Vol. 4, p. 209, 2003, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 34
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2008
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Angela Humphreys Hamilton
University of Tennessee College of Law and Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC
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asset purchase, acquisition, disposition, contract drafting, Tennessee

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Business Lawyering in the Crowdfunding Era

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Business Lawyering in the Crowdfunding Era

3 Am. U.B.L.R. 149 (2014), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 241
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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crowdfunding, securities, investing, lawyering, professional responsibility, professionalism, model rules, unauthorized practice, competence, diligence

Business Lawyering in the Crowdfunding Era

American University Business Law Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 149
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2018
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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crowdfunding, business law, business lawyering, business finance

10.

Innovative Transactional Pedagogies

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Vol. 12, p. 243, 2011, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 May 2011 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2012
Joan MacLeod Heminway, Lyman Johnson and Michael Woronoff
University of Tennessee College of Law, Washington and Lee University - School of Law and Kirkland & Ellis
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legal education, law, teaching, skill, pedagogy, corporate finance, contract drafting, numeracy, in-office meetings, analytical memos

11.

Buying Stock in Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Stock Purchase Agreement

Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Vol. 5, p. 211, 2004 , University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 43
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 18 May 2008 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2008
Terry Gentle and Joan MacLeod Heminway
Smartfurniture.com and University of Tennessee College of Law
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stock purchase, acquisition, disposition, contract drafting, Tennessee

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Thoughts on the Corporation as a Person for Purposes of Corporate Criminal Liability

Stetson Law Review, Vol. 41, 2011, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 166
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 31 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2012
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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citizens united, corporate personhood, corporate criminal liability

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Female Investors and Securities Fraud: Is the Reasonable Investor a Woman?

William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 15, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 77
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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materiality, reasonable investor, female investor, male investor, sex, gender, 10b-5, securities, fraud

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How Congress Killed Investment Crowdfunding: A Tale of Political Pressure, Hasty Decisions, and Inexpert Judgments That Begs for a Happy Ending

Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 102, 2013-2014, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 247
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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crowdfunding, CROWDFUND Act, JOBS Act, securities, investing, Congress, Securities and Exchange Commission

15.

Does Sarbanes-Oxley Foster the Existence of Ethical Executive Role Models in the Corporation?

Journal of Business & Technology Law, Vol. 3, p. 221, 2008, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 33
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2008
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate governance, role model, ethics, corporate culture

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Federal Interventions in Private Enterprise in the United States: Their Genesis in and Effects on Corporate Finance Instruments and Transactions

Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2010, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 138
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2011
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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corporate finance, preferred stock, bankruptcy, mergers, acquisitions, financial crisis, private enterprise, legal practice, Section 363

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Crowdfunding and the Public/Private Divide in U.S. Securities Regulation

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 2, 2014, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 271
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 May 2015 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2015
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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crowdfunding, public offering, private placement, public company, publicness, JOBS Act, CROWDFUND Act

18.

Martha’s (and Steve’s) Good Faith: An Officer’s Duty of Loyalty at the Intersection of Good Faith and Candor

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 71
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2022
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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officer, executive, good faith, candor, disclosure, loyalty, fiduciary duty, personal facts, privacy

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WANTED: Female Corporate Directors (A Review of Professor Douglas M. Branson's No Seat at the Table)

Pace Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 82
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2009
Joan MacLeod Heminway, Sarah A. Walters and Sarah A. Walters
University of Tennessee College of Law and Higier Allen & Lautin, P.C.Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants, Inc.
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corporation, corporate governance, management, manager, board, director, executive, CEO, women, female, paradigm

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Willful Blindness, Plausible Deniability, and Tippee Liability: SAC, Steven Cohen, and the Court's Opinion in Dirks

15 TRANSACTIONS: TENN. J. BUS. L. 47 (2013), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 233
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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insider trading, SAC, Steven Cohen, Dirks, Obus, Regulation FD

21.

Acquisition Escrows in Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Acquisition Escrow Agreement

Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Vol. 7, pp. 273-293, 2006
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 May 2008 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2008
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Timothy M. McLemore
University of Tennessee College of Law and Gentry, Tipton & McLemore, P.C.
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escrow, asset purchase, acquisition, disposition, contract drafting, Tennessee

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Fundamental Changes in the LLC: A Study in Path-Divergence and Convergence

Research Handbook on Partnerships, LLCs and Alternative Forms of Business Organizations, (Robert W. Hillman & Mark J. Loewenstein eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015, Forthcoming), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 252
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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limited liability company, LLC, fundamental change, basic change, merger, conversion, domestication, dissolution

23.

Enron's Tangled Web: Complex Relationships; Unanswered Questions

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Feb 2004
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Enron, Agency, Sarbanes-Oxley

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Reframing and Reforming the Securities and Exchange Commission: Lessons from Literature on Change Leadership

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 55, 2010, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 125
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2011
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, change leadership, change management, leadership, agency, institution, reform, Kotter

25.

The Feminist Pervasion: How Gender-Based Scholarship Informs Law and Law Teaching

Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies, Fothcoming
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 08 Sep 2005
Ann Bartow, F. Carolyn Graglia, Deseriee A. Kennedy and Joan MacLeod Heminway
Franklin Pierce Center for IP at UNH Law, Independent, Touro University - Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center and University of Tennessee College of Law
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feminism, sex, gender, law school, law, legal scholarship

26.

Managing Third-Party Platform Litigation Risk in Crowdfunding: Terms, Pricing, and Reputation

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 299
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2016
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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crowdfunding, platform, terms of use, financial terms of service, fees, reputation

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The Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Securities Fraud Prohibitions in an Increasingly Global Transactional World

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 186
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 May 2012 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2012
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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securities fraud, Section 10(b), Rule 10b-5, extraterritorial, Morrison, Dodd-Frank, Securities, Exchange Commission

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Personal Facts About Executive Officers: A Proposal for Tailored Disclosures to Encourage Reasonable Investor Behavior

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2007, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 09 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2011
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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disclosure, officer, executive, personal facts, securities regulation

29.

Bills of Sale in Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Bill of Sale

Transactions: Tennessee Journal Business Law, Vol. 9, p. 305, 2008, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 29
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 21 May 2008
Joan MacLeod Heminway and J. Allen Roberts
University of Tennessee College of Law and Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP
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bill of sale, asset purchase, acquisition, disposition, contract drafting, Tennessee

30.

Martha Stewart and the Forbidden Fruit: A New Story of Eve

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2009, p. 1017, Winter 2009, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 126
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2010
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Insider Trading, Securities Regulation, Martha Stewart, Bible, Eve, Law And Literature, Narrative, Teaching

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To Be or Not to Be (a Security): Funding For-Profit Social Enterprises

Regent University Law Review, Vol. 25, 2013, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 211
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2013
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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social enterprise, securities regulation, for-profit entity, corporate finance

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Shareholder Wealth Maximization as a Function of Statutes, Decisional Law, and Organic Documents

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2017, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 322
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 May 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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shareholder wealth maximization, fiduciary duty, corporate law, director, Dodge, eBay

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A More Critical Use of Fairness Opinions as a Practical Approach to the Behavioral Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Vol. 12, p. 81, 2011 , University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 149
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 May 2011 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2011
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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fairness opinions, mergers, acquisitions, behavioral economics, bias, systematic error

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Martha Stewart Saved! Insider Violations of Rule 10b-5 for Misrepresented or Undisclosed Personal Facts

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 65, 2006
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Aug 2006
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Martha Stewart, Section 10(b), Rule 10b-5, securities fraud, Rule 29, prosecutorial discretion

35.

The Ties That Bind: LLC Operating Agreements as Binding Commitments

68 SMU L. Rev. 811 (2015), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 279
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2016
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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limited liability company, LLC, operation agreement, limited liability company agreement, contract

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Blockchains, Corporate Governance, and the Lawyer's Role

Wayne Law Review, Vol. 65, 2019, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 388
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2020
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Adam J. Sulkowski
University of Tennessee College of Law and Babson College
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blockchains, corporate governance, lawyering

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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Securities Regulation Scholarship and Teaching in the Global Financial Crisis

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 105
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2012
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Securities Regulation, Legal Education, Law Teaching, Law Scholarship, Financial Crisis

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Hell Hath No Fury Like an Investor Scorned: Retribution, Deterrence, Restoration, and the Criminalization of Securities Fraud Under Rule 10b-5

Business & Technology Law, p. 3, 2007, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 6
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2007
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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securities fraud, Rule 10b-5, theories of punishment, retribution, deterrence, restorative justice, victims' rights, allocution

39.

Bank Mergers in Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Bank Merger Agreement

Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Vol. 6, pp. 247-319, 2005, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 30
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 21 May 2008
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Jackie G. Prester
University of Tennessee College of Law and Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
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bank, merger, acquisition, disposition, contract drafting, Tennessee

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Let's Not Give Up on Traditional For-Profit Corporations for Sustainable Social Enterprise

86 UMKC L. Rev. 779 (2018), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 353
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 May 2018 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, benefit corporation, L3C, social purpose corporation, for-profit corporation

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Just Do It! Specific Rulemaking on Materiality Guidance in Insider Trading

72 La. L. Rev. 999 (2012), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 196
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 24 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2012
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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materiality, insider trading, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, federal courts, enforcement discretion, judicial deference, administrative rulemaking, administrative procedure, interpretive release

42.

Financing Social Enterprise: Is the Crowd the Answer?

Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law (Forthcoming), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 327
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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social enterprise, crowdfunding, impact investing

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A Portrait of the Insider Trader as a Woman

Research Handbook on Insider Trading (Stephen Bainbridge, editor), Forthcoming , University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 187
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 May 2012 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2012
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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insider trading, woman, gender, sex, pillow talk

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Rock, Paper, Scissors: Choosing the Right Vehicle for Federal Corporate Governance Initiatives

Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, Vol. 10, p. 225, 2005
Number of pages: 160 Posted: 31 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2016
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate governance, federalism, institutional choice

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Executive Employment Agreements in Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Executive Employment Agreement

Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Vol. 10, p. 141, 2009, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 72
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2009
Trace Blankenship and Joan MacLeod Heminway
Bone McAllester Norton PLLC and University of Tennessee College of Law
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employment agreement, employment contract, employment law, executive, officer, merger, acquisition

46.

Corporate Purpose and Litigation Risk in Publicly Held U.S. Benefit Corporations

Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2017, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 319
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 05 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Benefit Corporation, Social Enterprise, Litigation Risk, Corporate Purpose, Public Company, Publicly Held, Publicly Traded

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Caught in (or on) the Web: A Review of Course Management Systems for Legal Education

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Nov 2005
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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legal education, teaching, technology, course management system

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Choice of Entity: The Fiscal Sponsorship Alternative to Nonprofit Incorporation

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 441, 23 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 526 (2022)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2023
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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nonprofit, 501(c)(3), tax-exempt, fiscal sponsor

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Women in the Crowd of Corporate Directors: Following, Walking Alone, and Meaningfully Contributing

William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2014, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 260
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2015
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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board of directors, director, corporate governance, woman, women, female, gender, crowd theory, crowd

50.

Sustaining Reform Efforts at the SEC: A Progress Report

Banking & Financial Services Policy Report, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2011, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 153
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2011
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Securities Exchange Commission, SEC, reform, Dodd-Frank, congress, budget, change leadership

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Acquisition Licenses in Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Acquisition License Agreement

Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law, Vol. 8, pp. 359-380, 2007
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 May 2008 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2008
Joan MacLeod Heminway, Jason I. Epstein and W. Edward Ramage
University of Tennessee College of Law, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC and Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
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license, intellectual property, asset purchase, acquisition, disposition, contract drafting, Tennessee

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Teaching Business Associations Law in the Evolving New Market Economy

Journal of Business & Technology Law, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2013), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 212
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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legal education, business associations, pedagogy

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Tipper/Tippee Insider Trading as Unlawful Deceptive Conduct: Insider Gifts of Material Nonpublic Information to Strangers

Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 56, 2018, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 358
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2018
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Insider Trading, Gift, Tipper, Tippee, Robin Hood

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The SEC’s New Line-Item Disclosure Rules for Asset-Backed Securities: MOTS or TMI?

35 Hamline L. Rev. 385 (2012), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 200
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2012
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Dodd-Frank, secondary mortgage market, asset-backed securities, disclosure

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The Last Male Bastion: In Search of a Trojan Horse

37 Dayton L. Rev. 77 (2011), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 197
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 31 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2012
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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executive, officer, CEO, gender, female, corporate governance, management, leadership, agency, team production, communitarian

56.

Criminal Insider Trading in Personal Networks

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 440, Stetson Bus. L. Rev (2022)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2023
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Insider trading, personal networks, tipping, tipper, tippee, misappropriation, misappropriator

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Selling Crowdfunded Equity: A New Frontier

Oklahoma Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, 2017, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 334
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, CROWDFUND Act, JOBS Act, resale, resale restriction, transfer restriction, secondary market

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What is a Merger Anyway?

21 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 321 (2020), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 396
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2020
Joan MacLeod Heminway, Don Leatherman and Thomas E. Plank
University of Tennessee College of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law and University of Tennessee College of Law
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Merger, acquisition, law, income taxation, corporations, property

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Brief of Professors at Law and Business Schools As Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, Leidos, Inc., fka SAIC, Inc., Petitioners, v. Indiana Public Retirement System, Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund, and Indiana Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, Respondents, No. 16-581 (S. Ct. Sept. 7, 2017)

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-60, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-29, Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2017-20
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 12 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2023
J. Robert Brown, James D. Cox, Joan MacLeod Heminway and Lyman Johnson
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Duke University School of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law and Washington and Lee University - School of Law
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Securities fraud; omission; duty to disclose; Item 303; Section 10(b); Rule 10b-5

60.

Change Leadership and the Law School Curriculum

Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 1, 43 (2022), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 432
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 May 2022 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2022
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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leadership, change, lawyers, legal education, law

61.

Professional Responsibility in an Age of Alternative Entities, Alternative Finance, and Alternative Facts

19 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 227 (2017), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 341
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2018
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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business lawyer, professional responsibility, ethics, alternative entities, alternative finance, alternative facts

62.

Non-Investment Finance in an NFT World

The Cambridge Handbook on Law and Policy for NFTs (Nizan Geslevich Packin, ed.), Forthcoming , University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2024
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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NFTs, non-fungible tokens, nonprofits, campaign finance

63.

Representing Elon Musk

53 Stetson Law Review 447 (2024), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Apr 2024
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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professional responsibility, lawyer-client relationship, lawyering

64.

Me, Too and #MeToo: Women in Congress and the Boardroom

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 5, 2019, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 394
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2020
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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65.

The Potential Legal Value of Relational Contracts in a Time of Crisis or Uncertainty

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 85, No. 2, 2022, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 430
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 May 2022 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2022
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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relational contract, supply contracts, contract enforceability, contract design, contract drafting

66.

Common Roots, Divergent Evolution: Insider Trading Doctrine in the United States, Japan, and Germany

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 May 2014
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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insider trading, United States, Japan, Germany, Rule 10b-5

67.

Teaching Business Associations with Group Oral Midterms: Benefits and Drawbacks

St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 59, p. 863, 2015, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 272
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2015
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Law teaching, law school, business associations, student assessment, examination, oral examination, midterm, simulation

68.

Women Should Not Need to Watch Their Husbands Like [A] Hawk: Misappropriation Insider Trading in Spousal Relationships

15 Tenn. J.L. & Pol’y 162 (2020) , University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 407
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 15 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2021
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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insider trading, misappropriation, deception, martial privilege, spousal privilege

69.

The Role of Business Counsel As Compliance Gatekeepers: Toward Understanding and Combatting Reckless Disregard for Legal and Ethical Compliance in Business Entities

Wayne Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2016, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 321
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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lawyer-client relationship, professionalism, compliance, legal advice, lawyering, recklessness, insider trading

70.

Desire, Conservatism, Underfunding, Congressional Meddling, and Study Fatigue: Ingredients for Ongoing Reform at the Securities and Exchange Commission?

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 81, 2013, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 214
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 May 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2013
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Section 967, Dodd-Frank, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, federal agency, reform, program evaluation, new public management, NPM

71.

Lawyering for Social Enterprise

20 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 797 (2019), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 380
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2019
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, entity formation, choice of entity, entity choice, firm governance, lawyering, professionalism

72.

The Fiduciary-ness of Business Associations

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 442, 24 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 255 (2023)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2023
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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fiduciary duty, business associations, unincorporated entities

73.

Corporate Management Should All Be Feminists

40 Law & Ineq. 409 (2022), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 435
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2022
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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gender, diversity, corporations, management, directors, officers, feminist, feminism, sexist, sexism

74.

Why Can't We Be Friends? A Business Finance Lawyer's Plaintive Plea to Entrepreneurs

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 1459, 2017, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 328
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, finance, business lawyer, business finance lawyer, corporate finance law

75.

Leadership for the Transactional Business Law Student

22 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. Law 311 (2022), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 431
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 May 2022 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2022
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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leadership, law school, teaching, transactional business law

76.

(Not) Holding Firms Criminally Responsible for the Reckless Insider Trading of Their Employees

Stetson Law Review, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2016, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 320
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 25 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Insider Trading, Corporate Criminal Liability, Recklessness, Section 10(b), Rule 10b-5

77.

Safe Haven Conundrum: The Use of Special Bailments to Keep Pets Out of Violent Households

12 Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy 79 (2017), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 329
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 16 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2017
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Patricia Lenaghan
University of Tennessee College of Law and Peterson White, LLP
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Family violence, domestic violence, animal abuse, The Link, safe haven, bailment, property law, contract law

78.

Brief of Professors at Law and Business Schools as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Omnicare, Inc., Et Al., Petitioners, v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, Et Al., Respondents, No. 13-435 (S. Ct. Sept. 2, 2014)

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-46, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 259
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2015
J. Robert Brown, Celia Taylor, Joan MacLeod Heminway and Lyman Johnson
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law and Washington and Lee University - School of Law
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79.

Business Law and Lawyering in the Wake of COVID-19

22 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 365 (2021), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 416
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2021
Anne Crisp, Joan MacLeod Heminway and Gray Martin
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Law
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pandemic, COVID-19, business law, lawyering, law practice, professional responsibility

80.

Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride: Business Deregulation in the Trump Era

Mercer Law Review Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 587-614, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 371
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 May 2019 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2019
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Trump, deregulation, business, transactions, law

81.

Federalized Corporate Governance: The Dream of William O. Douglas as Sarbanes-Oxley Turns 20

16 Brook. J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. 97 (2021), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 429
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2022
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate governance, federalization, William O. Douglas

82.

The Materiality of ESG Information: Why It May Matter

84 La. L. Rev. 1365 (2024), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Jul 2024
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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materiality, ESG, securities, disclosure, fraud, insider trading

83.

Brief of Law and Business Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, MacQuarie Infrastructure v. Moab Partners, No. 22-1165, Dec. 20, 2023

University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2024-09, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4692086
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Feb 2024
J. Robert Brown, James D. Cox, Joan MacLeod Heminway, Sarah C. Haan and Faith Stevelman
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Duke University School of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law, Washington and Lee University - School of Law and New York Law School
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"federal securities laws" fraud "duty to disclose" "rule 10b-5" "Section 11" Securities Act of 1933" "Securities Exchange Act of 1934" "public company" "Regulation S-K" Item 303" trends "management's discussion and analysis" "periodic reports" "integrated disclosure"

84.

Designing Deregulation: The POTUS's Place in the Process

87 UMKC Law Review 653 (2019), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 370
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2019
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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president, deregulation, change leader, fiduciary

85.

History, Hope, and Healthy Skepticism

22 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 223 (2021), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 425
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2022
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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social enterprise, benefit corporation

86.

A Few Quick Viewpoints on Viewpoint Diversity Shareholder Proposals

22 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 295 (2021) , University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 424
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2022
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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shareholder proposals, viewpoint diversity

87.

Tennessee's DAO Act: Positive Innovation or Fringe Legislation?

22 FSU Bus. Rev. 171 (2023), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Jul 2024
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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DAO, decentralized autonomous organization, Tennessee, LLC, limited liability company, blockchains

88.

What the Roys Should Learn from the Demoulas Family (But Probably Won’t)

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 3, 2024, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 May 2024
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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family business, fiduciary duty, succession, self-interest, conflicting interest, duty of loyalty, duty of care

89.

Business Lawyer Leadership: Valuing Relationships

25 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 449 (2024), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 03 Jul 2024
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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Business law, Lawyering, Leadership, Relationship management

90.

Teaching Transactional Business Law through Campus and Community Partnerships

25 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 931 (2024), University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Jun 2024
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Brian Kingsley Krumm
University of Tennessee College of Law and University of Tennessee College of Law
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Law teaching, Transactional business law

91.

Civil Insider Trading in Personal Networks

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Sep 2024
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law
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insider trading, friendship, family, enforcement, Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice, securities

92.

Securities Crowdfunding and Investor Protection

CESifo DICE Report 2/2016, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 292
Posted: 19 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2016
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law

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Crowdfunding, Investor Protections, Small Business Finance, Corporate Finance

93.

Materiality Guidance in the Context of Insider Trading: A Call to Action

Posted: 25 Jan 2004
Joan MacLeod Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law

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Materiality, Insider Trading

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Representing Entities: The Value of Teaching Students How to Draft Board Resolutions and Other Similar Documentation

15 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 547 (2014)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Feb 2015
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Marcia Narine Weldon
University of Tennessee College of Law and University of Miami School of Law
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law teaching, pedagogy, transactions, business law, board resolutions, current events, experiential learning