Andrew Tuch
Professor of Law
Professor Tuch teaches and writes in financial and securities regulation and corporate law. He uses conceptual insights from economics and finance to examine how firm structure contributes to financial misconduct and financial instability. His work also examines the legal and non-legal regulation of banks and bankers; comparative issues in corporate law and financial regulation; and developments in private equity firms and transactions. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals in the United States and overseas. His article, Reassessing Self-Dealing: Between No Conflict and Fairness, was selected for the 2019 Yale/ Stanford/ Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. He is a two-time recipient of the Brudney Prize for the Best Paper in Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, and an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. His working papers and published scholarship can be accessed here.
Before joining WashULaw, Professor Tuch practiced corporate law in the New York and London offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell. He currently serves on the National Adjudicatory Council of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
- Education
- S.J.D., Harvard Law School
- LL.M., Harvard Law School
- LL.B., University of Queensland
- B.Com., University of Queensland
- Courses
- Corporations
- Securities Regulation
- Topics in Financial Regulation Seminar
- Advanced Securities Regulation Seminar
- Areas of Expertise
- Financial Regulation
- Securities Regulation
- Corporate law
- Investment banking
- Publications
- “A General Defense of Information Fiduciaries,” Wash. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming)
- “Managing Management Buyouts: A US-UK Comparative Analysis,” in Research Handbook on Comparative Corporate Governance (Afra Afsharipour & Martin Gelter eds., forthcoming)
- “Reassessing Self-Dealing: Between No Conflict and Fairness,” 88 Fordham L. Rev. 939 (2019)
- Selected for Yale / Stanford/ Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, 2019
- “Review of The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law,” 78(1) Cambridge L.J. 210 (2019)
- “Proxy Advisor Influence in a Comparative Light,” 99 B.U. L. Rev. 1459 (2019)
- Selected by peers for republication in Corporate Practice Commentator (2019)
- “Fiduciary Principles in Banking Law,” in Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller, and Robert H. Sitkoff, eds., 2019)
- “The Weakening of Fiduciary Law,” in Research Handbook on Fiduciary Law (Andrew Gold & Gordon Smith, eds., 2018)
- “The Remaking of Wall Street,” 7 Harvard Business Law Review 315 (2017)
- “The Limits of Gatekeeper Liability,” 73 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 619 (2017) (invited response to Stavros Gadinis & Colby Mangels, “Collaborative Gatekeepers”)
- “Banker Loyalty in Mergers and Acquisitions,” 94 Texas Law Review 1079 (2016)
- Selected by peers for republication in Corporate Practice Commentator (2017)
- “Conduct of Business Regulation,” in Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (Niamh Moloney, Eilis Ferran, & Jennifer Payne, eds., 2015)
- “Disclaiming Loyalty: M&A Advisors and Their Engagement Letters,” 93 Texas Law Review See Also 211 (2015) (invited response to William Bratton & Michael Wachter, “Bankers and Chancellors”)
- “The Self-Regulation of Investment Bankers,” 83 George Washington Law Review 101 (2014)
- Awarded 3rd prize at 2014 Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop at George Washington University, Center for Law, Economics & Finance
- Selected by peers for republication in Corporate Practice Commentator (2016)
- “Financial Conglomerates and Information Barriers,” 39 The Journal of Corporation Law 563 (2014)
- Selected by peers for republication in Securities Law Review (2015), an annual anthology that reprints eight to 10 outstanding securities law articles to give them broader exposure
- “Conflicted Gatekeepers: The Volcker Rule and Goldman Sachs,” 7 Virginia Law & Business Review 365 (2012)
- Awarded Harvard’s Victor Brudney Best Paper Prize, 2011
- “Multiple Gatekeepers,” 96 Virginia Law Review 1583 (2010)
- Selected among the “Ten Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2011” by Corporate Practice Commentator
- Awarded Harvard’s Victor Brudney Best Paper Prize, 2010
- Activity and Affiliations
- Member, National Adjudicatory Council, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), 2018 –
- Executive Committee, AALS Business Associations Section, 2016 –
- Executive Committee, AALS Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Section, 2017 – (Chair 2019)
- Executive Committee, AALS Securities Regulation Section, 2018 –
- Honors and Awards
- Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow, Washington University School of Law, 2017-18
- Europa-Kolleg Hamburg Fellowship (funded visit to Max Planck Institute), 2016
- John M. Olin Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2008–2012
- Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, 2008–2012
- Harvey Fellowship, Mustard Seed Foundation (funding for doctoral studies), 2008–11
- Harvard-Byse Teaching Fellowship, 2010
- Harvard-Cravath Travelling Fellowship, 2010
- Graduate Program Fellowship, Harvard Law School, 2007–09
- Selected by Directorship Magazine as among the 100 “most influential people on corporate governance and in the boardroom” (as Co-editor, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation), 2008
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship for PhD Study at Cambridge University, 2007–10 (not accepted)
- Fulbright Scholarship, 1998–99
- Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, 1998–99
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