Heather Hughes
Assistant Professor of Law
Office: Room 474
Phone: 202-274-4311
E-mail: hhughes@wcl.american.edu
Heather Hughes teaches in the areas of commercial law, development finance, and property. Her research focuses on domestic and transnational commercial law, ethics and critical theory. Before joining the faculty at WCL, Professor Hughes was an assistant professor at Florida International University College of Law, and, prior to teaching, she practiced in the business department at Morrison & Foerster, LLP in San Francisco, and the commercial transactions group at a small, private firm in Denver.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Secured Transactions
- Commercial Law
- Legal Theory
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Harvard Law School 1998 (cum laude)
- B.A., University of Chicago 1995 (History, General and Departmental Honors)
Selected Publications
- Heather Hughes, Counterintuitive Thoughts on Legal Scholarship and Secured Transactions, 55 Buff. L. Rev. 863 (Dec. 2007). SSRN Link
- Heather Hughes, Aesthetics of Commercial Law – Domestic and International Implications, 67 La. L. Rev. 689 (2007).
- Heather Hughes, Creditors’ Imagined Communities and the Unfettered Expansion of Secured Lending, 83 Denv. U. L. Rev. 425 (2005).
- Heather Hughes, Contradictions, Open Secrets, and Feminist Faith in Enlightenment, 13 Hastings Women's L.J. 187 (2002).
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Selected Presentations
- Heather Hughes, Presentation, Structured Finance, Social Structure: The Case of Worker Remittance Securitization (New Scholars Workshop, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, July 28, 2008).
- Heather Hughes, Panelist, The Nuts and Bolts of Including Corporate Social Responsibility Norms in Financial Contracts (International Law-Making and Non-State Actors, International Law Weekend, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2007).
- Heather Hughes, Panelist, Critical Perspectives on Commercial Law (LatCrit X, San Juan, P.R., Oct. 8, 2005).
- Heather Hughes, Speaker, Basic Contract Law for Small Businesses (Ebenezer Baptist Church, Miami, Fla., June 2005).
- Heather Hughes, Instructor, CLE Seminar on Revised U.C.C. Article 9 (Senn Visciano Kirschenbaum P.C., Denver, Colo., Apr. 24, 2003).
