The College of Law is pleased to announce that Jeremy McClane will join the tenure-stream faculty as an Associate Professor beginning in the summer of 2018. 

McClane is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at the College, and has taught at the University of Connecticut School of Law since 2014. Professor McClane is a legal scholar whose research focuses on corporate and commercial transactions. His work combines empirical methods and systems analysis to study the impact of law on transactional outcomes. His most recent article, “Boilerplate and the Impact of Disclosure in Dealmaking,” was selected for inclusion in the 2017 Stanford/Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. 

Professor McClane began his teaching career as a clinical instructor and lecturer at Harvard Law School, where he taught negotiation and dispute systems design. Prior to teaching, he practiced in the International Capital Markets Group of the law firm of Allen & Overy in London and Paris, and Goldman Sachs International in London, where he conducted negotiations for a variety of international financial transactions involving securities, hedge funds and derivatives. He also served as in-house counsel for the London office of MFS Investment Management.

Professor McClane is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Michigan State University. In addition to his private practice experience, he served as a law clerk for the Judge Richard Cardamone of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. In addition, he has been a Fulbright Scholar, studying economic and business development in the former Soviet Union.