Alicia Plerhoples’ research and teaching interests include social enterprise law, nonprofit law, corporate governance, and clinical legal education. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Masters in Public Administration from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Policy, and an A.B. from Harvard College. Prior to coming to Georgetown, Plerhoples was the Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Clinical Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. After law school, she worked at law firms in New York City and Silicon Valley where she advised asset-based lenders and emerging biomedical and technology companies on finance arrangements.
At Georgetown, Plerhoples is director of the Social Enterprise & Nonprofit Law Clinic through which law students provide pro bono corporate and transactional legal services to social enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses. Professor Plerhoples has been active in the social enterprise legal sector, writing and presenting about corporate governance and corporate laws that facilitate the work of social entrepreneurs. Plerhoples regularly contributes to the Social Enterprise Law Blog at www.socentlaw.com.
Scholarship
Forthcoming Works - Book Chapters and Collected Works
Alicia E. Plerhoples, The Promise of Social Enterprise for Poor Communities, inThe Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law (Joseph Yockey & Benjamin Means eds., Cambridge University Press forthcoming).
Book Chapters and Collected Works
Alicia E. Plerhoples, Delaware Public Benefit Corporations 90 Days Out: Who’s Opting In?, in57 Corporate Practice Commentator 49-81 (Robert B. Thompson ed., St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson Reuters 2016).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
Alicia E. Plerhoples, Nonprofit Displacement and the Pursuit of Charity Through Public Benefit Corporations,21 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 525-572 (2017). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Alicia E. Plerhoples, Social Enterprise As Commitment: A Roadmap,48 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 89-137 (2015). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
Alicia E. Plerhoples, Risks, Goals, and Pictographs: Lawyering to the Social Entrepreneur,19 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 301-326 (2015). [Gtown Law] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Professors Hope Babcock, Gregg Bloche, John Copacino, Deborah Epstein, Daniel Ernst, James Feinerman, Anne Fleming, Sheila Foster, Maria Glover, Vida Johnson, Gregory Klass, David Luban, Allegra McLeod, Naomi Mezey, Sherally Munshi, Alicia Plerhoples, Jarrod Reich, Tanina Rostain, Rima Sirota, Abbe Smith, and Kristen Tiscione are among 1700 signatories on a letter, published by The New York Times, delivered to the United States Senate, October 4, 2018, presenting concerns of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's qualifications to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
