Jeremy McClane

Jeremy McClane is a legal scholar specializing in corporate law, securities regulation and commercial transactions. His research employs empirical methods and systems analysis to examine how legal frameworks shape transactional outcomes. Before joining the faculty at the George Washington University Law School, he was a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was affiliated with the Program on Law, Behavior and Social Science. He previously served on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Law and held appointments as a clinical instructor and lecturer at Harvard Law School.

Prior to entering academia, Professor McClane practiced in the International Capital Markets Group of the firm now known as A&O Shearman, working in its London and Paris offices. He also served as in-house counsel at the London offices of MFS Investment Management and Goldman Sachs International.

Professor McClane’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in leading journals including the Vanderbilt Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Fordham Law Review. His work has been recognized on the Corporate Practice Commentator’s list of the top ten corporate and securities law articles and has been selected for presentation at the Stanford/Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, the AALS Scholarly Papers Competition, and awarded the Carroll P. Hurd Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship at Illinois. His research has also received support from the National Science Foundation. Professor McClane was the inaugural recipient of the Perry Zirkel Teaching Award at the University of Connecticut and was regularly named to the University of Illinois’s “List of Teachers Rated Excellent by Their Students.”

Professor McClane holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Michigan State University. He clerked for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Richard Cardamone of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has also served as a Fulbright Scholar, researching economic and business development in former Soviet countries.