PROFESSOR ANN M. SCARLETT Saint Louis University School of Law 100 N. Tucker Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63101-1930 (314) 977-7240, ascarlet@slu.edu SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=513653 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Professor of Law with tenure, July 2012-Present Associate Professor of Law with tenure, July 2010-June 2012 Assistant Professor of Law, July 2005-June 2010 SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, St. Louis, Missouri Courses: Fellowship: Awards: Civil Procedure I & II; Business Associations; Entrepreneurship Law; and Seminars on Corporate Issues, Shareholder Litigation, and Complex Litigation Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellow (2014-present) Experiential Classroom: Teaching Entrepreneurship, University of Florida (2014) Thompson Coburn Faculty Award for Exceptional Legal Scholarship for Shareholders in the Jury Box: A Populist Check Against Corporate Mismanagement, 78 University of Cincinnati Law Review 127 (2009). Faculty Advisor: Entrepreneurship Law Concentration (2015- present) Business Transactional Law Concentration (2015-present) Saint Louis University Law Journal (2009-present) Phi Alpha Delta Student Organization (2008-present) Federalist Society Student Organization (2013-present) Committees: Dean s Budget Advisory Committee (2015) Co-Chair, Personnel Committee (2014-present) University Ad Hoc Judicial Committee (2013-2018) Chair, Working Group on Long-Term Contracts (2014-2015) Chair, Law School Faculty Appointments Committee (2012-2014) University Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee (2008-2013) Law School Judicial Clerkship Committee (2005-06, 2010-13, Chair 2010-11) Law School Progress Committee (2010-12) Law School Dean Search Committee (2010-11) Co-organizer, Faculty Workshop Series (2010-11) Law School Clerkship and Externship Committee (2009-10) Law School Faculty Appointments Committee (2007-09) Law School Academic Standards Committee (2006-07) Law School Academic Planning and Curriculum Committee (2005-06) Lecturer/Adjunct Professor, Spring 2000 & August 2001-May 2005 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW, Lawrence, KS Courses: Civil Procedure I & II LEGAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE Associate Attorney Business Litigation & Appellate, October 2001-June 2005 STINSON MORRISON HECKER LLP, Kansas City, MO (now Stinson Leonard Street LLP) Law Clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, July 2000 to July 2001 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, Washington, D.C.
Associate Attorney Corporate Law & Financial Services, September 1999 to July 2000 STINSON, MAG & FIZZELL, P.C., Kansas City, MO (now Stinson Leonard Street LLP) Law Clerk to Judge Pasco M. Bowman, September 1998 to August 1999 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, Kansas City, MO PUBLICATIONS The Benefits of Integrating Entrepreneurship into Business Associations, 59 Saint Louis University Law Journal 711 (2015). Shareholder Derivative Litigation s Historical and Normative Foundations, 61 Buffalo Law Review 837 (2013). Incorporating Litigation Perspectives to Enhance the Business Associations Course, 8 Journal of Business & Technology Law (published by University of Maryland) 203 (2012). Investors Beware: Assessing Shareholder Derivative Litigation in India and China, 33 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 173 (2011). Imitation or Improvement? The Evolution of Shareholder Derivative Litigation in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, 28 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 569 (2011). Shareholders in the Jury Box: A Populist Check Against Corporate Mismanagement, 78 University of Cincinnati Law Review 127 (2009). A Better Approach for Balancing Authority and Accountability in Shareholder Derivative Litigation, 57 University of Kansas Law Review 39 (2008). Confusion and Unpredictability in Shareholder Derivative Litigation: The Delaware Courts' Response to Recent Corporate Scandals, 60 Florida Law Review 589 (2008). Clerk Surpasses Justice s Test, KU Law Magazine, Fall 2008, 10. Note, Representing Government Officials in Both Their Individual and Official Capacities in Section 1983 Actions After Johnson v. Board of County Commissioners, 45 University of Kansas Law Review 1327 (1997). WORKS IN PROGRESS Eliminating Right to Jury Trial Disparities between Class and Shareholder Derivative Actions Reforming Shareholder Derivative Litigation through Procedural Changes PRESENTATIONS AND MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS Interview, KWMU-FM 90.7, story on multi-district litigation involved in the Ashley Madison lawsuits, December 2015. Interview, All Digitocracy, Legally Speaking: Six Ways Not to Screw Up Your Digital Media Startup, March 8, 2015. CLE Presenter, Current Issues for Limited Liability Companies, Missouri Bar CLE Masters Series: Current Issues for Business Law Practitioners, June 3, 2014. Presenter, Modernizing Shareholder Derivative Litigation Procedures, First Annual Corporate & Scarlett Curriculum Vitae page 2
Securities Litigation Workshop, Hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Richmond School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, Nov. 8-9, 2013. Panelist, Discussion on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, St. Louis Federalist Society CLE, October 14, 2013. Panel Moderator, Saint Louis University Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture, Sanford V. Levinson as Keynote Speaker, November 1, 2013. Presenter, Shareholder Derivative Litigation s Historical and Normative Foundations, National Business Law Scholars Conference, Sponsored by The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, June 12, 2013 Panelist, Using Litigation Perspectives to Teach Business Law, Discussion Group: Teaching Business Law in a New Economic Environment, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, August 3, 2012 Presenter, Lessons for U.S. Shareholder Derivative Litigation from Civil Law Countries, National Business Law Scholars Conference, Sponsored by University of Cincinnati College of Law, June 28, 2012 Panel Moderator, Saint Louis University Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture, Judith Resnik as Keynote Speaker, November 11, 2011 Presenter, The United States Global Influence on Shareholder Derivative Litigation, Session on New Corporate Governance: Investors and Other Players, The Law and Society Association, 2011 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, June 4, 2011 Panelist, Faculty Panel for Admitted Student Weekend, Saint Louis University School of Law, March 26, 2011 Presenter, The Rise of Shareholder Derivative Litigation within Developing Countries, Faculty Workshop, Saint Louis University School of Law, January 19, 2011 Presenter, The United States' Response to Recent Financial Crises Harms Corporations, Midwest Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting, Sponsored by University of Colorado Law School and its Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, October 9, 2010 Panelist, The U.S. Supreme Court Term Begins, LEGALLY SPEAKING, HEC-TV, October 4, 2010 Panel Moderator, Saint Louis University Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture, Lawrence M. Friedman as Keynote Speaker, September 24, 2010 Presenter, A Comparative Analysis of Shareholder Derivative Litigation in the Global Economy, Workshop, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, February 19, 2010 Presenter, Drafting Motions, Presentation for Student Legal Writers Association, Saint Louis University School of Law, November 3, 2009 Panel Moderator, Saint Louis University Childress Lecture, Professor John A. Powell as Keynote Speaker, October 2, 2009 Panelist, Faculty Panel for Admitted Student Weekend, Saint Louis University School of Law, March 28, 2009 Workshop, University of Kansas School of Law, January 16, 2009 Scarlett Curriculum Vitae page 3
Presenter, The Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Decision-Making Class, University of Oklahoma College of Law, November 24, 2008 Workshop, Saint Louis University School of Law, October 22, 2008 Midwest Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting, Sponsored by Searle Center on Law, Regulation & Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law, October 3, 2008 Panelist, Constitution Day Panel discussing recent Supreme Court cases, Saint Louis University School of Law, September 17, 2008 Presenter, A Better Approach for Balancing Authority & Accountability in Shareholder Derivative Litigation, Faculty Colloquium, University of Oklahoma College of Law, September 15, 2008 Presenter, A Better Approach for Balancing Authority and Accountability in Shareholder Derivative Litigation, Washington University School of Law Regional Junior Faculty Works-in-Progress Workshops, April 18, 2008 Presenter, The Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Decision-Making Class, University of Oklahoma College of Law, November 6, 2007 Quoted by Gil Stuenkel, Electronic Files Are Fair Game in Discovery Phase, ST. LOUIS BUSINESS JOURNAL, Oct. 11, 2007 Panelist, Constitution Day Panel discussing recent Supreme Court cases, Saint Louis University School of Law, September 17, 2007 Presenter, Keeping Directors Out of Hot Water: Fiduciary Liability after Disney, Missouri Bar 2006 Annual Meeting, September 28, 2006 Missouri Bar Annual Meeting Planning Committee, Business and Corporate Law Section, 2006 COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Federalist Society of St. Louis (2014-present) Member of Advisory Board Shalom House, St. Louis, MO (a non-profit corporation helping homeless women) Member of Advisory Board (2013-2015) Member of Board of Directors (2009-2013) LICENSES Missouri Bar, admitted October 1998 Kansas Bar, admitted April 1999 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, admitted October 1998 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, admitted November 2003 United States Supreme Court, admitted June 2003 Scarlett Curriculum Vitae page 4
EDUCATION Juris Doctor, University of Kansas School of Law, May 1998 Ranked first in graduating class Order of the Coif Editor-in-Chief, Kansas Law Review Samuel Mellinger Scholarship, Leadership, and Service Award C.C. Stewart Award in Law (top senior law student) William L. Burdick Prize (top first year law student) Payne & Jones Appellate Advocacy Award Teaching Assistant for Legal Research and Writing, and for Appellate Advocacy Rice Scholar (three-year full tuition scholarship) Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Kansas State University, May 1995 Summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa Omicron Delta Epsilon, Economic Honor Society Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, Secretary Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Golden Key National Honor Society Scarlett Curriculum Vitae page 5