Sarah Haan

Biography

Professor Sarah C. Haan writes at the intersection of corporate law and democracy, on subjects such as corporate governance, shareholder voting rights, and disclosure. She joined Brooklyn Law School in summer 2025 from Washington & Lee University School of Law, where she was the Class of 1958 Uncas and Anne McThenia Professor of Law, and twice received the school’s Ethan Allen Faculty Fellowship for excellence in legal scholarship. In 2024, Professor Haan taught Corporations as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. 

Professor Haan’s scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and other leading journals, and has been featured in the New York Times, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, and the CLS Blue Sky Blog. Two of her articles, “Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital,” and “Voting Rights in Corporate Governance: History and Political Economy,” were named among the ten best corporate and securities law review articles of 2022 and 2024, respectively. She is writing a book about the history of corporate democracy. 

Professor Haan received a B.A. in History from Yale University and a law degree from Columbia Law School, where she was an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review. Prior to joining legal academia, Professor Haan worked in the litigation department at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, and as a Teach For America teacher in Compton, California. Professor Haan is admitted to the bar of New York State, to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.