Hillary Sale Biography

Professor Hillary A. Sale an expert in securities and corporate governance ranks among the nation’s best scholars teachers and leaders in corporate and securities law. She is a frequent speaker to industry and academics on corporate governance leadership and women’s leadership and was selected as one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Business for 2014 by the St. Louis Business Journal. She was the Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in the spring of 2017 where she taught Women’s Leadership and Corporate Boards and Governance. In the fall of 2017 she is a visiting professor at Georgetown Law School where she is teaching Women and Leadership and Corporations. She is the co-author with John C. Coffee and M. Todd Henderson of a casebook on federal securities regulation now in its 13th edition and of a book on federal securities laws rules and forms. She has written extensively on various matters including: redesigning the SEC independent directors as securities monitors derivative litigation and corporate law and governance. Three of her articles were selected by Corporate Practice Commentator as among the annual top ten corporate and securities law articles. Professor Sale also regularly presents her scholarship at conferences and workshops throughout the country. At the law school she is a recipient of the David M. Becker Professor of the Year Award and she also holds a courtesy appointment as a professor of management at the Olin School of Business. Among her professional affiliations she is a member of the Executive Committee of DirectWomen and Chair of the DirectWomen Board Institute an organization dedicated to educating women attorneys about public company boards. She also is a member of the American Law Institute and a member of the ABA Corporate Laws Committee. She previously was the F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Finance and Law at the University of Iowa where she received the President’s Collegiate Teaching Award. Before becoming a law professor she clerked for the Hon. Richard S. Arnold Chief Judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and practiced law with Wilmer Hale LLP (formerly Hale and Dorr LLP) in Boston specializing in corporate and securities litigation and internal investigations. She also held several positions with government entities in Massachusetts.

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