Biographical Sketch
Professor Fairfax joined the faculty in fall 2009 and teaches courses in the business area including Corporations, Securities Regulation, and Seminars on Securities Law and Corporate Transactions. Professor Fairfax's scholarly interests include corporate governance matters, shareholder activism, fiduciary obligations, securities fraud, and privatization and education, and she speaks and writes frequently on these and other corporate law topics. Professor Fairfax is also a permanent writer for the blog, the Conglomerate.

Professor Fairfax is chair of the Business Associations Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and a member of the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Committee on Corporate Laws, which has jurisdiction over the Model Business Corporation Act. In addition, Professor Fairfax is co-chair of the ABA Governmental Corporation Law Committee, which assists in developing guidelines and commentary for laws regulating government chartered corporations. Professor Fairfax serves on the National Adjudicatory Council and the NASDAQ Market Regulation Committee of FINRA.

Prior to joining GW, Professor Fairfax was a professor of law and director of the Business Law Program at the University of Maryland School of Law, where she was voted Teacher of the Year. Before entering academia, Professor Fairfax practiced corporate law with Ropes & Gray in Boston and the District of Columbia, and graduated from Harvard Law School and Harvard College with honors.

Education
B.A., J.D., Harvard University