Ashlee Paxton-Turner

Professor Ashlee Paxton-Turner studies corporations, American democracy, and the connections between them. She researches and writes on issues of corporate governance and corporate participation in public debate. She is particularly interested in how democratic principles and aspirations influence corporate law—both state corporate law and federal securities law—and how corporations participate in and influence American democratic processes. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The George Washington Law Review and The Maryland Law Review, among others.

Before joining the faculty at Richmond, Professor Paxton-Turner was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Law. She received her B.A from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Duke University, where she served as an Articles Editor on the Duke Law Journal. Professor Paxton-Turner practiced law at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. in the corporate and securities group and later in the business litigation group. During that time, she worked on matters related to M&A deals, public-company filings, and business litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. She clerked for the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King on the Fifth Circuit. Before law school, Professor Paxton-Turner was a Teach For America corps member and taught high school mathematics in Oxford, North Carolina.