Anne Tucker

Anne Tucker teaches and researches contracts, corporations, securities regulations, and investment funds.

Tucker’s research focuses on three areas of business law. The first is on the regulation and administration of funds (both public and private funds) and how pooled investments can achieve significant personal and social ends, such as retirement security and private funding for social entrepreneurship. Second, she focuses on impact investing and contract terms that reinforce impact objectives alongside financial returns. Third, she studies corporate governance, including the role of institutional investors as shareholders.

Tucker also researches civil litigation, focusing on settlement and private resolutions as an outgrowth of her work as the inaugural Faculty Director of the Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative (LAII). Tucker works on sponsored research projects, including SCALES – OKN (Systematic Content Analysis of Litigation EventS Open Knowledge Network.

Professor Tucker has published over 25 book chapters and articles, including in journals such as Northwestern Law Review, the Harvard Business Law Review, the Journal of Corporate Law, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the American Business Law Journal.

Professor Tucker is a member of the American Law Institute (elected 2019) and a business associations subject matter expert for the Next Generation Bar Exam.

Prior to joining the College of Law, Tucker practiced corporate law with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. She also clerked for Judge Alice D. Bonner and Judge Elizabeth E. Long at Georgia’s Business Court, a specialized court adjudicating high-dollar, complex, commercial and business litigation. While at the court, Tucker simultaneously served as the program director, overseeing the initial development of the Business Court and writing about the role of specialized courts in modern civil jurisprudence.

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. She is 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 Gov. Frank O’Bannon. Tucker received her B.A., summa cum laude, at Butler University in Indianapolis.