
Jayne Barnard
Cutler Professor of Law
Email: [[jwbarn]]
Office phone: (757) 221-3849
Office location: Room 213
Areas of Specialization
Corporations; Criminal Law--White Collar Crime; Food and Drug Regulation; Law and Neuroscience; Regulatory Reform; Securities Regulation Law
Teaching in Academic Year 2013-2014
Business Associations; Securities Regulation I; Selected Problems in Securities Regulation Seminar; W&M Business Law Review
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Practiced law at Jenner and Block in Chicago (elected to partnership 1982). Joined the faculty in 1985.
Author of articles in the Journal of Corporation Law; The Business Lawyer; and the Wisconsin, North Carolina, Boston University, Arizona, and Southern California law reviews.
Program chair for the 2010-2012 Herbert V. Kelly, Sr. Program for Teaching Excellence. Winner, 2010 Plumeri Award for Teaching Excellence.
Recipient, 2011 Thomas Jefferson Award.
President, ACLU of Virginia 2010-13.
Scholarly Publications
Articles
- Symposium Issue, Shirking, Opportunism, Self-Delusion and More: The Agency Problem Today, ___ Wake F. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013).
- Symposium Issue, The Cooperation Continuum, ___ U. Cin. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013).
- Tribute Issue, Listening to Victims, 79 Fordham L. Rev. 1479 (2011).
- At the Intersection of Corporate Governance and Environmental Sustainability, 2 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 207 (2011).
- Symposium Issue, Evolutionary Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, 71 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 403 (2010), reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator (Thomson-West 2011). SSRN.
- Deception, Decisions, and Investor Education, 17 Elder L. J. 201 (2009). SSRN.
- Symposium Issue, Narcissism, Over-Optimism, Fear, Anger and Depression: The Interior Lives of Corporate Leaders, 77 U. Cin. L. Rev. 405 (2008). SSRN.
- Corporate Therapeutics at the Securities and Exchange Commission, 2008 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 793 (2008). SSRN.
- Securities Fraud, Recidivism, and Deterrence, 113 Penn. St. L. Rev. 189 (2008). SSRN.
- Symposium Issue, Post-Tenure Review As If It Mattered, 17 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 297 (2008). SSRN.
- Symposium Issue, Creative Sanctions for Online Investment Fraud, 76 Miss. L.J. 949 (2007).
- Symposium Issue, Corporate Boards and The New Environmentalism, 31 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 291 (2007).
- Symposium Issue, More Women on Corporate Boards? Not So Fast, 13 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 703 (2007)
- Symposium Issue, At the Top of the Pyramid: Lessons from the Alpha Women and the "Elite Eight," 65 Md. L. Rev. 315 (2006)
- Rule 10b-5 and the "Unfitness" Question, 47 Ariz. L. Rev. 9 (2005), reprinted in 47 Corp. Prac. Comm. 855 (2005).
- Symposium Issue, Historical Quirks, Political Opportunism, and the Anti-Loan Provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 31 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 325 (2005), reprinted in 38 Sec. L. Rev. Ann. 236 (2006).
- SEC Debarment of Officers and Directors After Sarbanes-Oxley, 59 Bus. Law. 391 (2004).
- Co-author, Incremental Bar Admission: Lessons from the Medical Profession, 53 J. Legal Educ. 340 (2003) (with Mark Greenspan).
- The SEC's Suspension and Bar Powers in Perspective, 76 Tul. L. Rev. 1253 (2002).
- Renewable Bar Admission: A Template for Making "Professionalism" Real, 25 J. Legal Prof. 1 (2001).
- Allocution for Victims of Economic Crimes, 77 Notre Dame L. Rev. 39 (2001). SSRN.
- Reintegrative Shaming in Corporate Sentencing, 72 S. Cal. L. Rev. 959 (1999).
- What is Character? What is Fitness? Who Decides?, VII Educ. & Prac. 5 (1999).
- The Three-Legged Stool of Corporate Governance Reform, 13 Amicus Curiae (Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London) 12 (1999).
- Reflections on Britain's Research Assessment Exercise, 48 J. Legal Educ. 467 (1998).
- When Wise Men Speak: Comments on the OECD's Corporate Governance Project, Company Secretary, Jul. 1998, at 37 (Hong Kong publication).
- The Hampel Committee Report: A Transatlantic View, Company Law., Apr. 1998, at 110 (British publication).
- Symposium Issue, Corporate Philanthropy, Executives' Pet Charities and the Agency Problem, 41 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 1147 (1997).
- Co-author, Report of the Task Force on Rule 102(e) Proceedings: Rule 102(e) Sanctions Against Accountants, 52 Bus. Law. 965 (1997).
- Sovereign Prerogatives, 21 J. Corp. L. 281 (1996).
- Private Practice for Public Consumption: Two Views of Corporate Law, 73 B.U. L. Rev. 121 (1993).
- When is a Corporate Executive "Substantially Unfit to Serve"?, 70 N.C. L. Rev. 1489 (1992), reprinted in 25 Sec. L. Rev. Ann. 155 (1993).
- Institutional Investors and the New Corporate Governance, 69 N.C. L. Rev. 1135 (1991).
- Shareholder Access to the Proxy Revisited, 40 Cath. U. L. Rev. 37 (1990).
- Giving Voice to Shareholder Choice, 73 Bus. and Soc'y Rev. 15 (1990).
- Exxon Collides with the Valdez Principles, 74 Bus. & Soc'y Rev. 32 (1990).
- Securities Law Symposium, The Supreme Court and the Shareholder Litigant: Basic, Inc. v. Levinson in Context, 16 Pepp. L. Rev. 985 (1989).
- Executive Loans from Corporate Funds, 17 Sec. Reg. L.J. 257 (1989).
- The Securities Law Enforcement Remedies Act of 1989: Disenfranchising Shareholders in Order to Protect Them, 65 Notre Dame L. Rev. 32 (1989), reprinted in 23 Sec. L. Rev. Ann. 275 (1991) and 33 Corp. Prac. Comm. 507 (1992).
- Curbing Management Conflicts of Interest -- The Search for an Effective Deterrent, 40 Rutgers L. Rev. 369 (1988).
- Corporate Loans to Directors and Officers -- Every Business Now a Bank?, ___ Wis. L. Rev. 237 (1988), reprinted in 31 Corp. Prac. Comm. 217 (1989).
- Raiding the Corporate Cookie Jar, 68 Bus. & Soc'y Rev. 56 (1988).
Book Chapters
- Corporate Criminal Liability: A Tool for Corporate Governance Reform, in Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society (1999).
- How Legal Principles Encourage Irresponsible Corporate Behavior: The Case of Tobacco, in Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 217 (1993).
- Co-author, Referenda and Public Questions, in Election Law (IICLE 1983) (with S. Schenkier).
- Co-author, Litigation Under Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in Course of Study in Litigation Under the Federal Securities Laws (ALI-ABA 1977, 1978, 1981) (with J. Solovy).
- Co-author, Attorneys' Fees in Commercial and Civil Rights Cases, in Problems in Modern Federal Practice (PLI 1979) (with J. Solovy).
- Co-author, Representing Candidates and Others in Election Litigation, in Attorneys' Guide to Illinois Election Law (IICLE 1977) (with W. Luking).
Other
- Assessment of Clinical Skills in Medicine and Law, Bar Examiner, Aug. 2004, at 18.
- Sears Incentives: A Wall Street Parallel, N.Y. Times, Aug. 30, 1992, § 3, at 11.
- Reducing Tenure in the Boardroom, N.Y. Times, Dec. 22, 1991, § 3, at 11.
- Challenge and Change: Perspectives on Central Europe, ___ Wm. & Mary Law. 17 (1990).
- Conflict of Interest in the Board Room -- Misconduct "Market Discipline" Cannot Kill, ___ Wm. & Mary Law. 35 (1988).











