jennifer taub

Jennifer S. Taub researches and writes in the areas of financial reform, corporate governance, and mutual fund regulation. Her forthcoming book entitled, The Great Betrayal: How Washington Bailed Out Wall Street but Left Main Street Underwater is under contract with Yale Press.

Professor Taub joined the faculty of Vermont Law School in July 2011, after serving as coordinator of the Business Law Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Isenberg School of Management.  Prior to joining academia she was an Associate General Counsel with Fidelity Investments. Taub received her BA degree, cum laude, from Yale College, with Distinction in the English major, and her JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. She teaches business law courses including Contracts, Corporations and Securities Regulation.

In addition to her in-progress book, she has written extensively on the financial crisis. Her publications include a case study on American International Group in Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow’s fifth edition of Corporate Governance. In addition she has published “The Sophisticated Investor and the Global Financial Crisis,” in Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis, Hawley, Kamath and Williams, eds. Forthcoming works include a chapter entitled “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Banking,” in the Oxford University Press Handbook on the Political Economy of the Financial Crisis, Epstein and Wolfson, eds. Additionally, she was commissioned to write entries on “Shadow Banking” and “Financial Deregulation” for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History, forthcoming, Oxford University Press.

Professor Taub’s corporate governance work often focuses on the role of institutional investors, including mutual funds. Her article “Able but Not Willing: The Failure of Mutual Fund Advisers to Advocate for Shareholders’ Rights,” was published in 2009 in the Journal of Corporation Law.  This paper was initially presented at a conference jointly sponsored by the Yale School of Management, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and the Oxford Said Business School. Her paper entitled “Money Managers in the Middle: Seeing and Sanctioning Corporate Political Spending after Citizens United,” was presented at the NYU Law School, Brennan Center for Justice in 2011.

In addition to scholarly work, Taub has written for a variety of blogs including The Baseline Scenario, The Race to the Bottom and the Pareto Commons, and she has been interviewed for Market Place Radio, MarketWatch, the Wall Street Journal online and various national and regional radio programs.

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