Helen S Scott

Helen S. Scott is the Co-Director of the Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law & Business, a new program involving student mentoring, research and curricular innovation at the Law School in cooperation with NYU's Stern School of Business. Prof. Scott came to the New York University School of Law from corporate practice at a major New York law firm. From the first, her teaching has been marked by her use of “current events” in the classroom. “When you teach courses like Contracts, Corporations, and Entrepreneurial Finance,” she says, “there's something in the newspaper every day that's relevant to that day’s class.” She has also developed innovative courses. Her seminar, Business Transactions Planning, was the first non-litigation-based full-scale simulation course at the NYU School of Law. Students in the seminar represent founding participants in a high technology business in the formation and first outside financing of that business. Entrepreneurial Finance is a course developed and taught jointly to law and business students by Professor Scott and Professor Roy Smith of the Stern School of Business. Professor Scott’s student evaluations are always stellar, and the School of Law has nominated her for the University’s Great Teacher Award. Professor Scott is currently working with the Kauffman Foundation on a project involving new ways of thinking about and teaching in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation. She has served as the co-chair of the Listing and Hearing Review Council of the NASDAQ Stock Market, which develops listing policy as well as hearing delisting appeals. She remains involved with cutting-edge issues of corporate governance, financial reporting, and market globalization. She has also received the Legal Advocate of the Year Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration for her work on the ACE-Net (Angel Capital Network) program, a limited access electronic network for increasing the availability of equity capital to entrepreneurial businesses. born 1949; admitted to bar, 1978, District of Columbia and New York. Education: Barnard College (B.A., 1970); Columbia University Law School (J.D., 1977).