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Anne Tucker

Anne Tucker is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University College of Law. Professor Tucker researches in the areas of corporate law and governance examining questions such as how to balance the authority of the board of directors with appropriate accountability to the shareholders. An example of her research in this area is her recent article, "Who's the Boss: Unmasking Oversight Liability within the Corporate Power Puzzle," which appeared in the spring 2010 edition of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law. Professor Tucker also researches broader policy questions that examine the roles, rights, and responsibilities of corporations within our democratic society. To that end, Professor Tucker has been examining questions of corporate political speech rights as advanced in the January, 2010 Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court opinion. Her current research frames the fundamental First Amendment debate of the case in the context of traditional corporate law principles to examine the ways in which our law recognizes, restricts, and respects a "corporate voice". Professor Tucker teaches Contracts, Corporations, and Unincorporated Business Associations.

Prior to joining the College of Law, Professor Tucker practiced corporate law with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. She left the firm to join Georgia's new Business Court, a specialized court adjudicating high-dollar, complex, commercial and business litigation. At the Business Court, Professor Tucker clerked for the Honorable Alice D. Bonner and the Honorable Elizabeth E. Long. Professor Tucker simultaneously served as the Program Director for the Business Court overseeing the development of the court, including two rule amendments before the Supreme Court of Georgia. While at the Business Court, Professor Tucker published an article analyzing the role of specialized courts in modern civil jurisprudence and proposing a framework to assess the role of business courts.

Professor Tucker received her J.D. magna cum laude at Indiana University, Bloomington-Maurer School of Law where she served as the Senior Managing Editor of the Federal Communications Law Journal, the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association, became a member of the Order of the Coif, and earned the Public Interest Service Award. Before attending law school, she served as a Governor's Fellow for Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon. Professor Tucker received her B.A. in political science and journalism at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.