Jennifer Taub is a law professor, advocate, and commentator focusing on corporate governance, financial market regulation, and white collar crime.
Work
Jennifer Taub is a Professor at Vermont Law School, where she teaches contracts, corporations, securities regulation, and white collar crime. Before VLS, she taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the Isenberg School of Management. Taub's research focuses on banking reform, corporate governance, financial market regulation, white collar crime and the 2008 housing Financial Crisis. Taub also worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law in March 2015, a visiting fellow at the Yale School of Management during the 2016 spring semester, and a Visiting professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law during the Spring 2019 semester. Taub will spend the Fall 2019 semester as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law. Taub has also worked as an Associate General Counsel for Fidelity Investments. Presently, Taub is also a regular guest commentator on CNN and MSNBC, where she often analyses legal matters including white collar crime news and the Russian government's interference in the U.S. elections.
Jennifer Taub was a lead organizer of the national Tax March which took place on April 15, 2017, demanding that, among other things, the President release his tax returns. calling for the protest was inspired by the Women's March.
Taub's first book was Other People's Houses, published in 2014 by the Yale Press. In 2017 Taub released a 6th edition of the casebook, Corporate and White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials originally written by Kathleen Brickey.
Articles
“Saving the Canaries: Protecting Consumer Borrowers to Prevent Systemic Risk,” in progress.
“A Thing of Value: Can Opposition Research from Foreign Nationals violate the Federal Election Campaign Act?,” in progress.
“Law and Economics: Contemporary Approaches,” with Martha McCluskey and Frank Pasquale, Yale Law & Policy Review.
Film review of The Big Short and 99 Homes with New Labor Forum.
“The Subprime Specter Returns: High Finance and the Growth of High-Risk Consumer Debt,” New Labor Forum.
“Is Hobby Lobby a Tool to Limit Corporate Constitutional Rights?” Constitutional Commentary.
“Regulating in the Light: Harnessing Political Entrepreneurs’ Energy for Post-Crisis Sunlight Hearings,” St. Thomas L. Rev..
“Reconcilable Differences: Promoting Homeownership While Preventing Systemic Risk,” Annual Review of Insolvency Law.
“Reforming the Banks for Good,” Dissent.
“Unpopular Contracts and Why They Matter: Burying Landgell and Enlivening Students,” Washington Law Review.
“Enablers of Exuberance,” draft paper concerning the relationship between legal acts and omissions and the global financial meltdown, selected for presentation at the Elfenworks Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism at St. Mary’s College of California, October 2009.
“Able But Not Willing: The Failure of Mutual Fund Advisers to Advocate for Shareholders’ Rights,” The Journal of Corporation Law, vol. 34.
