Alicia Plerhoples

Professor Plerhoples joins the Law Center faculty in 2012. She is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Policy and Yale Law School where she served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and articles editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism. Professor Plerhoples practiced real estate finance and corporate finance law in both New York City and Silicon Valley prior to entering academia. She has completed two post-graduate fellowships, the first at Stanford Law School as the Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Clinical Teaching Fellow with the Organizations & Transactions Clinic, and the second at the University of California Hastings College of the Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor in business law and clinical education.

Professor Plerhoples’ scholarship explores hybrid business entities and their governance. Her recent article Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks?, 13 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 221 (2012), examines traditional corporate law principles and how they might be adapted and applied to the flexible purpose corporation, a new corporate form that allows businesses to pursue social and environmental objectives along with profits. Professor Plerhoples’ teaching interests include transactional law and clinical education. Currently, she is developing a transactional law clinic for the Law Center that will serve the legal needs of social entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations.