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Ann Lipton

Visiting Faculty

Ann M. Lipton

Visiting Associate Professor of Law

Biography

Ann Lipton’s research explores corporate governance, the relationships between corporations and investors, and the role of corporations in society. Her articles have appeared in the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal, among other publications. Beginning with the Ninth Edition, she became one of the authors of the Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials casebook published by Aspen Publishers. She also blogs regularly for the Business Law Prof Blog.

Lipton clerked for Justice David Souter of the US Supreme Court and Judge Edward Becker of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit before handling securities and corporate litigation at the trial and appellate levels at law firms in New York City. She also worked briefly for the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Education and Experience

Education

Harvard Law School, JD, 2000

Honors: magna cum laude, Sears Prize for Second-Year Grade Point Average, Best Brief, First-Year Ames Moot Court Competition
Activities: Harvard Law Review, Articles and Commentaries Committee, Research Assistant to Professor Laurence H. Tribe, Research Assistant to Professor Daniel J. Meltzer, Prison Legal Assistance Project

Stanford University, AB in Communication and Psychology, 1995

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Graduated with Distinction

Experience

Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, LA July 2015–present

Associate Dean for Faculty Research (July 2021–present)
Michael M. Fleishman Associate Professor in Business Law and Entrepreneurship (with tenure as of July 2021)

Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC July 2013–June 2015

Visiting Assistant Professor

Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, New York, NY Apr. 2009–May 2013

Bernstein Liebhard LLP, New York, NY Dec. 2006–Apr. 2009

Securities and Exchange Commission, New York, NY Apr. 2006–Nov. 2006

Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, New York, NY Oct. 2002–Mar. 2006

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY Oct. 2003–June 2004

Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing

US Supreme Court, Washington, DC Aug. 2001–July 2002

Law clerk for the Honorable David H. Souter.

Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Philadelphia, PA Aug. 2000–July 2001

Law clerk for the Honorable Edward R. Becker.

Presentations
  • Invited Lecturer, The Future of Markets, Firms and Investing Series, Ontario Securities Commission, June 29, 2023
  • Discussant, Vanderbilt 25th Annual Law & Business Conference, Vanderbilt Law School, Apr. 14, 2023
  • Participant, Conference on Standardized Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Feb. 2023
  • Inside Out, Law and Economics Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, Jan. 2023
  • Panelist, Conference on M&A and Corporate Governance, Columbia Law School, Dec. 2022
  • Keynote Speaker – Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure, Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 2022
  • Panelist, Seventh Annual Berkeley Forum on Corporate Governance, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2022
  • Panelist, 2022 Apollo Sustainability & ESG Conference, sponsored by Apollo Global Management, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law, Oct. 2022
  • Inside Out, Randall-Parks Speakers, University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, Sept. 2022
  • Corporate Purpose and the Blurred Boundaries of Internal and External Governance, The Public Corporation and Its Environment: How “Public” Is It?, Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen, Germany, June 2022
  • Discussant, Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, Harvard Law School, June 2022
  • Panelist, Poison Pills After Williams, sponsored by the Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance, NYU School of Law, Apr. 2022
  • Inside Out, University of Texas at Austin School of Law Business Law Workshop, University of Texas Law School, Apr. 2022
  • Panelist, Tulane Energy Law Conference, Tulane Law School, Apr. 2022
  • Inside Out, Criser Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Florida, March 2022
  • Inside Out, BYU Winter Deals Conference, Park City, Utah, March 2022
  • Panelist, Mergers & Acquisitions 2022: Advanced Trends and Developments, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, Jan. 2022
  • Panelist, Temperatures Rising: Risks and Opportunities from Anticipated ESG Disclosure Regulation, sponsored by Quinn Emanuel, Nov. 2021
  • Capital Discrimination, Law & Economics Colloquium, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Oct. 2021
  • Panelist, Controlling Stockholders, Delaware Court of Chancery Retreat, Oct. 2021
  • Panelist, Should the SEC mandate disclosure of environmental and social matters?, sponsored by the Corporate Law Academic Webinar Series, Sept. 2021
  • Panelist, ESG 2021: What It Means for Boards, Management, and Counsel, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, June 2021
  • Panelist, Corporate & Securities Law in the Time of Coronavirus, sponsored by the University of Richmond Law Review, University of Richmond Law School, March 2021
  • Capital Discrimination, Cornell Law School Faculty Legal Studies Workshop, Cornell Law School, Feb. 2021
  • Panelist, Corporate Governance and Social Issues, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Business Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Feb. 2021
  • Capital Discrimination, Institute for Law & Economics Workshop, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Feb. 2021
  • Conflict and Cooperation Among Mutual Funds, Leet Symposium: Equity Holdings in the Three Index Funds: Anti-Competitive Effects, Fiduciary Duties and Environmental, Social and Governance Issue, Case Western Reserve University Law School, Nov. 2020
  • Limiting Shareholder Litigation Through Corporate Charters and Bylaws, Business Law: Connecting the Threads IV, sponsored by the University of Tennessee College of Law, Oct. 2020
  • Panelist, Financial Advice Landscape in 2020 Amidst New SEC, CFP Board and ERISA Standards, sponsored by the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, Sept. 2020
  • Not Everything is About Investors, UC Hastings Workshop in Law, Business & Economics, UC Hastings Law School, Apr. 2020
  • Beyond Internal and External, Fourth Annual Tulane Corporate and Securities Roundtable, Tulane Law School, March 2020
  • Panelist, Corporate Social Responsibility: Maximizing Shareholder Returns and Community Benefits, sponsored by the Ohio State Business Law Journal, Ohio State Moritz College of Law, Feb. 2020
  • Not Everything is About Investors, Berkeley Law, Economics and Business Workshop, UC Berkeley Law School, Feb. 2020
  • Panelist, 22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference, sponsored by the Federalist Society, Washington, D.C., Jan. 2020
  • Beyond Internal and External, The New Realism in Business Law and Economics, Minnesota Law School, Nov. 2019
  • Not Everything is About Investors, Minnesota Faculty Works in Progress Lecture, Minnesota Law School, Nov. 2019
  • After Corwin: Down the Controlling Shareholder Rabbit Hole, Rethinking the Shareholder Franchise, Wisconsin Law School, Sept. 2019
  • Panelist, Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing - in the US and Beyond, sponsored by the Impact Investing Legal Working Group and the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU Law, June 2019.
  • Panelist, NASAA Public Policy Roundtable, sponsored by North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), Washington, D.C., May 2019.
  • Panelist, Thirteenth Annual Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, May 2019
  • After Corwin: Down the Controlling Shareholder Rabbit Hole, Corporate Accountability Symposium, sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economic Policy and the Vanderbilt Law Review, Bahia Beach, PR, Apr. 2019
  • Panelist, Forum for Institutional Investors: Protecting Shareholder Rights, sponsored by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New Orleans, LA, Apr. 2019
  • Not Everything is About Investors, Law and Business Workshop, Vanderbilt Law School, March 2019
  • Not Everything is About Investors, Third Annual Tulane Corporate and Securities Roundtable, Tulane Law School, March 2019
  • Keynote Speaker – Working for the Unicorn, North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) Corporate Finance Training, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 2018
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Shareholder Primacy, Leet Symposium: Fiduciary Duty, Corporate Goals, and Shareholder Activism, Case Western Reserve University Law School, Nov. 2018
  • Fact or Fiction: Flawed Approaches to Evaluating Market Behavior in Securities Litigation, Business Law: Connecting the Threads II, University of Tennessee College of Law, Sept. 2018
  • Discussant – Disclosure, Deconstructing the Regulatory State: Perils and Possibilities Symposium, sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economic Policy and the Georgetown Law Journal, Bal Harbour, FL, Apr. 2018
  • Shareholder Divorce Court, Second Annual Tulane Corporate and Securities Roundtable, Tulane Law School, March 2018
  • Shareholder Divorce Court, University of North Carolina Faculty Speaker Series, UNC Law School, Feb. 2018
  • Shareholder Divorce Court, Regulation and Markets Workshop, Boston College Law School, Jan. 2018
  • Family Loyalty: Mutual Fund Voting and Fiduciary Obligation, Business Law: Connecting the Threads, University of Tennessee College of Law, Sept. 2017
  • Corporate Governance, Shareholder and Investor Engagement Subcommittee, ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Apr. 2017
  • Reviving Reliance, Navigating Federalism in Corporate and Securities Law, Tulane Law School, Apr. 2017
  • Reviving Reliance, Emory Faculty Colloquium, Emory Law School, March 2017
  • Deception Roundtable – Chicago, Research Program on Law and Market Behavior, sponsored by University of Notre Dame Law School, Chicago, IL, May 2016
  • Discussant – Navigating Alternatives to Securities Fraud Class Actions: State Law and Opt-out Litigation, The New Landscape of Securities Fraud Class Actions, sponsored by Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s Institute for Investor Protection and Institute for Law and Economic Policy, Oct. 2014
  • The Meaning of Halliburton II, and Where We Go From Here, UNC Law School Supreme Court lunch series, July 2014
  • Discussant – The Role of Fraud on the Market Theory in Class Actions, Business Litigation and Regulatory Agency Review in the Era of the Roberts Court, sponsored by Institute for Law and Economic Policy Symposium, Boca Raton, FL, Apr. 2014

Additional Activities

Honors and Awards

  • 2021 Felix Frankfurter Award for Distinguished Teaching
  • Not Everything is About Investors: The Case for Mandatory Stakeholder Disclosure selected as one of Corporate Practice Commentator’s Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2020

Bar Admissions

New York State, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, and Third Circuits, United States Supreme Court