Andrew Jennings, associate professor of law, is one of nine junior faculty members selected from law schools around the country to present his research at the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum in May 2026. The forum stands to facilitate conversations about the state of legal academia and foster methodological debates. Furthering the desire to amplify the voices of junior scholars and professors, all selected presenters are within the first seven years of a tenure or tenure track position. 

“Selection for the junior faculty forum is among the highest honor for junior faculty in our field," said Rich Freer, dean and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law. "It is a tremendous achievement. We are happy for Andrew and happy that his terrific work is receiving this recognition. It is well deserved; Andrew’s work reflects rigorous legal analysis, genuine intellectual care, and an eye for novel topics that will really move both scholarship and practice forward."

Jennings leads Emory Law’s William and Jane Carney Center for Business and Transactional Law as Faculty Director and hosts the well-regarded Business Law Scholarship Podcast. He has written extensively on corporate and securities law. In Everyday Veil Piercing, Jennings offers the first empirical estimates of how often standard “factors” associated with piercing the corporate veil—such as fraud on creditors, inattention to corporate formalities, commingling, and undercapitalization—appear in everyday business life. Although American courts have long described veil piercing as an exceptional remedy reserved for rare circumstances, no prior study has estimated how prevalent the underlying conduct actually is. Drawing on surveys of US small businesses—and introducing the list experiment, a technique for eliciting truthful answers to sensitive questions, to legal-doctrinal scholarship for the first time—Jennings concludes that these factors are endemic, appearing in millions of firms in any given year.

Said Jennings, “I’m grateful to have had Everyday Veil Piercing selected for the Junior Faculty Forum and am deeply appreciative of the support I’ve received from colleagues at Emory Law and elsewhere in the legal academy while writing it. The Forum was a wonderful opportunity for engaging with new scholarship, and I’m looking forward to incorporating feedback received from a distinguished group of commentators and fellow scholars.”