Anne M. Tucker

Anne M. Tucker will join 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.