University of Georgia
School of Law
212 Hirsch Hall
Athens, GA 30602
United States
B.A., Butler University
J.D., Indiana University
Corporations
Anne M. Tucker joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2025 as the holder of the Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law. She teaches and researches in the areas of contracts, corporations, securities regulations and investment funds.
She comes to UGA from the Georgia State University College of Law, where she was a professor and served as the associate dean of research and faculty development.
Tucker is the author of Business Organizations and more than 25 articles in leading law journals. Her recent work includes: “Settlement as Construct: Defining and Counting Party Resolution in Federal District Court ” in the Northwestern Law Review and “Text, Tone, and Legal Language: Analyzing Mutual Fund Disclosure Sentiment” in the American Business Law Journal. Her scholarship has also been published in the Harvard Business Law Review, the University of Chicago Business Law Review, the Yale Law Journal Forum, the Columbia Business Law Review and the Journal of Corporate Law.
Recognized for her teaching and scholarship on multiple occasions, Tucker is member of the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Bar Examiners. She is presently an affiliated researcher with the Impact Finance Research Consortium, which is sponsored by the Harvard University Business School, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. She often serves as expert witness in litigation and provides legal commentary to media outlets such as the National Law Review and The Financial Times. Previously, she served in leadership positions with both the Business Organizations and Agency, Partnerships and LLCs sections of the Association of American Law Schools.
Before entering academia, Tucker worked as the program director and supervising staff attorney of the Business Court affiliated with the Fulton County Superior Court and as a corporate associate with Paul Hasting Janofsky & Walker.
Tucker earned her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Butler University and her J.D. magna cum laude from Indiana University, where she served as the senior managing editor of the Federal Communications Law Journal and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.
ARTICLES
Legal Landscapes: Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing Research (2018-2023), 21 N.Y.U. Bus. L. Rev. 183 (2025) (with D. Burand).
Green Dividends: A Case Study in Green Dividends and the Conditions for Private Ordering Solutions, 48 Seattle U. L. Rev. 519 (2025).
Settlement as Construct: Defining and Counting Party Resolution in Federal District Court, 119 Nw. U. L Rev. 65 (2024) (with C. Alexander & N. Dahlberg).
Text, Tone, and Legal Language: Analyzing Mutual Fund Disclosure Sentiment, 61 Am. Bus. L.J. 57 (2024) (with Drs. Y. Xia and S.N. Smelcer).
The Promise & Perils of Plain English: Mutual Fund Disclosure Readability, 12 Harv. Bus. L. Rev 301 (2023) (with Dr. Y. Xia).
Shadow Contracts: Side Letters in Private Market Funds, 1 U. Chi. Bus. L. Rev. 269 (2022) (with J. Jeffers).
Regulating Dynamic Risk in Changing Market Conditions, 13 Wm. & Mary Bus. L.J. 775 (2022) (with Drs. Y. Xia & S.N. Smelcer).
Contracts with (Social) Benefits: The Implementation of Impact Investing, 142 J. Fin. Econ. 697 (2021) (with Drs. C. Geczy, J. Jeffers & D.K. Musto).
The Shadow Judiciary, 39 Rev. Litig. 303 (2020) (with C. Alexander & N. Dahlberg).
Buyer Beware: The Paradox of ESG & Passive ESG Funds, 41 Cardozo L. Rev. 1921 (2020) (with D. Brakman Reiser).
Legal Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing (2007-2017): Doing Good by Doing Business, 11 Wm & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 1 (2019) (with D. Burand).
Will Swing Pricing Save Sedentary Shareholders?, 1 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 130 (2018) (with H. van den Toorn).
The Long & The Short: Portfolio Turnover Ratios & Mutual Fund Investment Time Horizons, 43 J. Corp. L. 581 (2018).
In Pursuit of Good and Gold: Data Observations of Employee Ownership & Impact Investment, 40 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (2017) (with Drs. C. Geczy, J. Jeffers & D. Musto).
Locked In: The Competitive Disadvantage of Citizen Shareholders, 125 Yale L.J. Forum 163 (2015).
Institutional Investing When Shareholders Are Not Supreme, 5 Harv Bus. L Rev. 73 (2015) (with Drs. C. Geczy, J. Jeffers & D. Musto).
The Outside Investor: Citizen Shareholders & Corporate Law Alienation, 11 U. St. Thomas L.J. 101 (2014).
Retirement Revolution: Unmitigated Risks in the Defined Contribution Society, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 153 (2013).
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).
Rational Coercion: Citizens United and a Modern Day Prisoner’s Dilemma, 27 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1105 (2011).
Flawed Assumptions: A Corporate Law Analysis of Free Speech and Corporate Personhood in Citizens United, 61 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 497 (2011).
Who’s The Boss? Unmasking Oversight Liability within the Corporate Power Puzzle, 35 Del. J. Corp. L. 199 (2010).
BOOKS & CHAPTERS
Global Social Enterprise Markets (with D. Brakman Reiser), in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS LAW (Iain MacNeil & Iris H-Y Chiu, eds. 2022).
Using Text Analytics to Predict Litigation Outcomes: A Preliminary Assessment, (with C. Alexander, K. Al Jadda, and M. Javad Feizollahi) in LAW AS DATA: COMPUTATION, TEXT, AND THE FUTURE OF LEGAL ANALYSIS (M. Livermore & D. Rockmore eds., 2019).
Impact Investment & Alternative Capital Channels: Funding Success and Scale in Social Enterprise, in THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE LAW, (B. Means & J. Yockey eds., 2018).
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS, ChartaCourse (electronic casebook) (2015, 3rd ed. 2023) (available at: http://www.chartacourse.com/).