Andrew Tuch

Professor of Law

Office

Anheuser-Busch Hall
Room 468

Faculty Assistant

Rachel Mance

rmance@wustl.edu

(314) 935-6403

Featured Scholarship

  • Luca Enriques, Alessandro Romano & Andrew Tuch, Green Gatekeepers, Eur. Corp. Governance Inst. Blog (Jan. 06, 2025).

  • Luca Enriques, Alessandro Romano & Andrew Tuch, Green Gatekeepers, The Colum. Law School Blue Sky Blog (Oct. 21, 2024).

  • Luca Enriques, Alessandro Romano & Andrew Tuch, Green Gatekeepers, Oxford Bus. Law Blog (Oct. 17, 2024).


About Andrew Tuch

Professor Tuch teaches Corporations Law, Investment Banking and Private Equity, and Securities Regulation. His scholarly interests include securities and financial regulation, corporate law and governance, and comparative law. His work has appeared in multiple law reviews, peer-reviewed journals, and edited volumes. His articles “Multiple Gatekeepers” (Virginia Law Review) and “Reassessing Self-Dealing: Between No Conflict and Fairness” (Fordham Law Review) have been selected in a national poll of scholars as among the Top Ten Corporate and Securities articles in their respective years.

Tuch serves on the AALS Securities Regulation Executive Committee and has chaired the AALS Executive Committees for Business Associations and Financial Institutions. Beyond the AALS, he served a four-year term as a member of the Financial Industry Regulation Authority’s National Adjudicatory Council. He has been quoted by national news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.

Before joining Washington University’s faculty, Tuch taught at Sydney Law School and as a Byse Fellow at Harvard. He practiced law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and London. He holds LLM and SJD degrees from Harvard Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, and a two-time recipient of the Brudney Best Paper Prize in Corporate Governance.

Professor Tuch’s working papers and published scholarship are available for download here.

Education

  • S.J.D., Harvard Law School
  • LL.M., Harvard Law School
  • LL.B., University of Queensland
  • B.Com., University of Queensland

Courses

  • Corporations
  • Securities Regulation
  • Investment Banking and Private Equity
  • Topics in Financial Regulation Seminar
  • Advanced Securities Regulation Seminar

Areas of Expertise

  • Financial Regulation
  • Securities Regulation
  • Corporate law
  • Investment banking

Scholarship

Media

ECGI | Blog | January 26, 2025

European Corporate Governance Blog | Article | January 6, 2025

Columbia Blue Sky Blog | Article | October 24, 2024

Oxford Business Law Blog | Article | October 17, 2024

Jotwell | Article | March 18, 2024

Law360 | Quote | January 25, 2024

Council of Institutional Investors | Podcast | October 26, 2023

Business Scholarship Podcast | Podcast | October 26, 2023

Activity & Affiliations

  • Member, National Adjudicatory Council, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), 2018 –
  • Executive Committee, AALS Business Associations Section, 2016 – 2020 (Chair, 2020)
  • Executive Committee, AALS Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Section, 2017 – 2020 (Chair, 2019)
  • Executive Committee, AALS Securities Regulation Section, 2018 –

Honors & Awards

  • Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow, Washington University School of Law, 2017-18
  • Europa-Kolleg Hamburg Fellowship (funded visit to Max Planck Institute), 2016
  • John M. Olin Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2008–2012
  • Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, 2008–2012
  • Harvey Fellowship, Mustard Seed Foundation (funding for doctoral studies), 2008–11
  • Harvard-Byse Teaching Fellowship, 2010
  • Harvard-Cravath Travelling Fellowship, 2010
  • Graduate Program Fellowship, Harvard Law School, 2007–09
  • Selected by Directorship Magazine as among the 100 “most influential people on corporate governance and in the boardroom” (as Co-editor, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation), 2008
  • Gates Cambridge Scholarship for PhD Study at Cambridge University, 2007–10 (not accepted)
  • Fulbright Scholarship, 1998–99
  • Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, 1998–99