T. Leigh Anenson Directory Page

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Awarded: Sep 13, 2024

T. Leigh Anenson, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., is a Professor of Business Law at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. She is a former Associate (and founding) Director of the university-wide Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation, and Crime. She is the Immediate Past President of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), an academic organization of law professors teaching at business schools worldwide. She has held other leadership positions in the academy as a past president of the international section along with its Pacific Southwest region.

Anenson is internationally recognized for significant contributions to the understanding of business law, publishing in journals and with publishing houses of the highest quality. She has written extensively in private law and jurisprudence, especially equity, that have been transformative in the field. She is also known for making decisive contributions to government pension law and policy. She is the author of Judging Equity(Cambridge University Press) and The National Pension Crisis and the Constitution (forthcoming Cambridge University Press).

Anenson has received numerous research awards, including the two most prestigious awards (three and four times) given by the ALSB. She has also held visiting fellowships and other affiliations from universities throughout the world. She has served on the editorial board of two journals, comprising the premier peer-reviewed journal of business law in which she twice earned the Outstanding Reviewer award. Her research has been cited in major treatises and other legal texts, along with hundreds of law journals in the United States and abroad. She is consistently ranked in the top 5% of authors across all disciplines on the Social Science Research Network.

Anenson’s work has had influence beyond the academy, contributing to lawmaking with references in forty federal, state, and territorial court decisions. As a leading subject matter expert in the field of business law, she is often contacted by the media for commentary and has been invited as a featured speaker to conferences of top law schools and legal academies, non-profit organizations, and companies specializing in continuing legal education for attorneys.

Since joining the Smith School in 2007, Anenson has earned two teaching innovation grants and seventeen distinguished teaching awards, including the Krowe Award for Teaching Excellence. She has been nationally recognized by Poets & Quants as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor. She was also honored as the University of Maryland’s Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. This award honors senior tenured members of the faculty who combine outstanding scholarly accomplishment with excellence in teaching and personify the university’s image of the professoriate. Prior to academia, she held positions in business and law as an international consultant, export manager, judicial attorney, and business litigator.