Professor Brakman Reiser is an expert in the law of non-profit organizations. Her recent scholarship focuses on the legal and social ramifications of the increasing trend toward hybridization of non-profit and for-profit endeavors. She has also written extensively on non-profit governance and the role of non-fiduciary constituencies in non-profit organizations. In addition to courses in non-profit law, she teaches Property, Corporations, and Trusts and Estates. She is affiliated with the
Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law, the
Center for the Study of Business Law & Regulation, and the
Center for Health, Science & Public Policy. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Section, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Associations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), and the Government Relations Committee of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York.
Before joining the faculty, Professor Brakman Reiser was a legal fellow in the Office of the General Counsel of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. and served as a law clerk to Judge Bruce Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In law school, she was a note editor of the
Harvard Law Review.
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