Jennifer Taub

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Jennifer Taub
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Born (1966-12-04) December 4, 1966 (age 56)
Education Yale University (BA)
Harvard University (JD)
Relatives Shelley Taub (mother)
Website www.jennifertaub.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Jennifer Taub is a law professor, advocate, and commentator focusing on corporate governance, financial market regulation, and white collar crime.

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Work

Jennifer Taub is a Law Professor at Western New England University School of Law, where she teaches contracts, corporations, securities regulation, and white collar crime. Before WNE, she taught at VLS, and 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. [1] 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, [2] 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. [3]

Taub has also worked as an Associate General Counsel for Fidelity Investments. [4]

Taub has served as a guest commentator on CNN [5] and MSNBC. [6]

Tax March

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. Taub's tweet calling for the protest was inspired by the Women's March.

Education

Jennifer Taub received a B.A. in English from Yale College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Publications

Books

Taub's most recent book was “Big Dirty Money” published in 2020 by Viking Press. Her first book was Other People's Houses, published in 2014 by the Yale Press. [7] In 2017 Taub released a 6th edition of the casebook, and in 2021 a 7th edition ofCorporate and White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials (Wolters Kluwer) originally written by Kathleen Brickey.

Articles

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  2. "Jennifer Taub | Vermont Law School". www.vermontlaw.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  3. "Jennifer Taub". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. "Talk: 'Reinventing Law and Economics' with Jennifer Taub | Giving". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  5. Analyzing Mueller's first indictments - CNN Video, 30 October 2017, retrieved 2019-07-02
  6. "Collins: alleged Mueller scheme a 'badly done alt-right fever dream'". MSNBC.com. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  7. "Other People's Houses | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  8. Taub, Jennifer; Pasquale, Frank A.; McCluskey, Martha T. (2016-08-13). "Law and Economics: Contemporary Approaches". Rochester, NY. SSRN   2728030.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. Taub, Jennifer (2016-01-01). "The Subprime Specter Returns: High Finance and the Growth of High-Risk Consumer Debt". New Labor Forum. 25 (1): 68–77. doi:10.1177/1095796015620421. ISSN   1095-7960. S2CID   157813342.
  10. Taub, Jennifer (2015-05-20). "Is Hobby Lobby a Tool for Limiting Corporate Constitutional Rights?". Rochester, NY. SSRN   2612421.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. "Annual Review of Insolvency Law 2018". www.editionsyvonblais.com. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  12. "Reforming the Banks for Good". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  13. Taub, Jennifer (2013-12-23). "Unpopular Contracts and Why They Matter: Burying Langdell and Enlivening Students". Rochester, NY. SSRN   2371285.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. Taub, Jennifer (2012-02-15). "Money Managers in the Middle: Seeing and Sanctioning Political Spending after Citizens United". Rochester, NY. SSRN   2007121.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. Taub, Jennifer (2009-09-04). "Enablers of Exuberance: Legal Acts and Omissions that Facilitated the Global Financial Crisis". Rochester, NY. SSRN   1472190.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)