Tucker recognized as part of elite group of business law professors
Alston Chair in Corporate Law Anne M. Tucker was recently recognized as part of an elite group of law professors who have published in the most selective peer-reviewed finance journals in the world. She earned this distinction by publishing her co-authored article “Contracts with (Social) Benefits” in the Journal of Financial Economics. She is one of roughly 40 law professors who have ever published in the top finance journals, out of approximately 1,000 tenure/tenure-track professors teaching business law subjects at law schools.
Tucker has also published more than 25 articles in leading law journals. Her recent interdisciplinary, empirical work includes “The Function and Form of Boilerplate in Mutual Fund Disclosures,” forthcoming in the New York University Journal of Law and Business (co-authored), which uses 10 years of securities filings to demonstrate how boilerplate creates shared meaning, reduces transaction costs and lowers regulatory risk. She continues her collaboration with finance faculty on a new paper contrasting active and passive investor engagement in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent redefinition of “control.”
Since joining the UGA Law faculty in 2025, Tucker has presented her scholarship at eight conferences, including the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at the Georgetown University Law Center and the Tulane Corporate Law Institute.
On the international front, she serves as a consultant to the Legal Innovation for Sustainable Investments Foundation, helping to develop a new model impact investment agreement, and she received a UGA pre-seed grant to work with Associate Professor Desirée LeClercq and Stembler Family Distinguished Professor Christopher M. Bruner on “Trade and the Future of Transnational Work.”
She teaches Corporations, Contracts, Securities Regulation and the Corporate Governance Seminar.
Ortman authors articles in top law reviews
Specializing in criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence, Hosch Professor William Ortman has published articles in the California Law Review (Confession and Confrontation), the Washington University Law Review (Cliff Running) and the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (Plea Bargaining Abolitionism: A History) over the past 18 months.
His scholarship has also appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Michigan Law Review and the Stanford Law Review.
Last summer, Ortman presented on the history of plea bargaining as part of the panel “American Perspectives on Plea Bargaining” at the Michele Taruffo Girona Evidence Week held in Spain.
Teaching in the areas of criminal procedure and evidence, he joined the law school faculty last year and was subsequently appointed to a J. Alton Hosch Professorship. Ortman came to UGA Law with 12 years of teaching experience. Most recently, he was at the Wayne State University Law School, where he received multiple teaching awards.
