Associate 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. She also holds an M.A. in history from Yale
University, a 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, and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University, where she taught American legal history and was awarded a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities. Before joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Dennis practiced law 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. Professor Dennis is currently at work on a book about obscenity regulation in 19th-century New York, and has published several articles in the area of
American legal history; law, gender, and sexuality; and corporate law.
