Assistant Professor of Law. (Business Associations; American Legal
History; Securities and Market Regulation.) Professor Dennis earned a
B.A. from Yale College, where she graduated summa cum laude
and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; an M.A. in history from Yale
University; and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an editor
of the Yale Law and Policy Review and executive editor of AIDS and the Law.
After graduating from law school, Professor Dennis practiced in New
York at Debevoise & Plimpton; with the Civil Rights Bureau of the
New York Attorney General`s Office; and as a partner at Richard Spears
Kibbe & Orbe, where she specialized in corporate governance and
securities litigation and enforcement. She then enrolled in graduate
school at Princeton University, where she taught American legal
history, was elected to the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, and
was awarded a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities. Professor Dennis is
currently at work on her doctoral thesis on obscenity regulation in
19th-century America. She has published several articles in the area of
American legal history; law, gender, and sexuality; and corporate law.
