Anne Tucker
Professor of Law Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative- Education
J.D., Indiana University, Bloomington-Maurer School of Law, magna cum laude
B.A., Butler University, summa cum laude
- Specializations
Business Organizations
Contracts
Financial Institutions
Legal Analytics
- Biography
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.
- Publications
Books
Anne M. Tucker, Business Organizations (ChartaCourse 2015).
Book Chapters
Dana Brakman Reiser & Anne Tucker, Equity Finance for Social Enterprises, in Rsch. Handbook on Global Capital Markets L. 107 (Iris H.-Y. Chiu & Iain G. MacNeil 2023).
Charlotte S. Alexander, Khalifeh al Jadda, Mohammad Javad Feizollahi, & Anne M. Tucker, Using Text Analytics to Predict Litigation Outcomes, in Law as Data: Computation, Text, & the Future of Legal Analysis (Michael A. Livermore & Daniel N. Rockmore, eds. 2019).
Anne M. Tucker, Impact Investment and Alternative Capital Channels, in The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law 173 (Benjamin Means & Joseph W. Yockey, eds. 2019).
Articles
Anne M. Tucker, Yusen Xia, & Susan Navarro Smelcer Text, Tone, and Legal Language: Analyzing Mutual Fund Disclosure Sentiment, 61 Am. Bus. L.J. 57 (2024).
Anne M. Tucker & Yusen Xia, Promise & Peril of Plain English: Mutual Fund Disclosure Readability, 13 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 59 (2023).
Jessica Jeffers & Anne M. Tucker, Shadow Contracts: Side Letters in Private Market Funds, 1 Univ. of Chi. Bus.
L.Rev. 269 (2022).
Susan Smelcer, Anne Tucker & Yusen Xia, Regulating Dynamic Risk in Changing Market Conditions, 13 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 775 (2022).
Christopher Geczy, et al., 142 J. Fin. Econ. 697 (2021).
Anne Tucker, 20/20 Vision in the Long & Short-Termism Debate, 41 Seattle Univ. L. Rev. 337 (2018).
Anne M. Tucker & Holly van den Toorn, Will Swing Pricing Save Sedentary Shareholders?, 2018 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 130.
Anne M. Tucker, The Long and the Short: Portfolio Turnover Ratios & Mutual Fund Investment Time Horizons, 43 J. Corp. L. 581 (2018).
Anne M. Tucker, The Short Road Home to Delaware: Boilermakers Local 154 Retirement Fund v. Chevron, 7 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L. 467 (2014).
Anne M. Tucker, Teaching LLCs by Design, 71 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 525 (2014).
Anne Tucker, The Citizen Shareholder: Modernizing the Agency Paradigm to Reflect How and Why a Majority of Americans Invest in the Market, 35 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1299 (2012).
Anne Tucker Nees, Who's the Boss? Unmasking Oversight Liability Within the Corporate Power Puzzle, 35 Del. J. Corp. L. 199 (2010).
Anne Tucker Nees, Susan Willey, & Nancy Mansfield, Enhancing Educational Value of Experiential Learning: The Business Court Project, 27 J. Legal Stud. Educ. 171 (2010).
Benjamin F. Tennille, Lee Applebaum, and Anne Tucker Nees, Getting to Yes in Specialized Courts: The Unique Role of ADR in Business Court Cases, 11 Pepp. Disp. Resol. L.J. 35 (2010).
Anne Tucker, Rational Coercion: Citizens United and a Modern Day Prisoner's Dilemma, 27 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1105 (2010).
Anne Tucker Nees, Making a Case for Business Courts: A Survey Of and Proposed Framework to Evaluate Business Courts, 24 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 477 (2007).
Popular Press
Anne Tucker Nees, SEC On Track With New Insider Cases, Atlanta J.-Const., Nov. 29, 2009, at A23.
Anne Tucker Nees & Vjollca Prroni, E-Discovery Business Impact: Response Plans and Insurance Coverage, Daily Rep., Mar. 17, 2008, at 15.
Other
Anne Tucker, et al., Business Law Prof Blog (2014), http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/business_law/.