Anne Choike
Associate Clinical Professor of Law; Director of the Equitable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Law Clinic | Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES
Professor Anne Choike focuses on corporate law, securities regulation, intellectual property, and local government law.
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Professor Anne Choike’s research, teaching, and practice focuses on corporate law, securities regulation, intellectual property, and local government law, with an emphasis on examining how communities, entrepreneurs, and innovators who are underserved are affected by corporate governance and transactional law. At MSU Law, she teaches Equitable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Law Clinic I and II, as well as Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Law. She is the founder and director of the Equitable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Law Clinic, and also an Associate Clinical Professor of Law, at Michigan State University College of Law.
Choike is the founding co-editor of FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: CORPORATE LAW REWRITTEN (Cambridge University Press, January 2023), to which she also contributed two chapters as a co-author. Choike’s work has also been published or is forthcoming in the Harvard Business Law Review, Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review and the Columbia Journal of Tax Law. In 2024, Choike received a $30,000 grant for her interdisciplinary research with faculty in MSU's James Madison College, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Department of Forestry to research the influence of homeowner association governance on the environmental sustainability of residential development. Her work and commentary have been featured in Crain's Detroit Business and the Business Law Scholarship Podcast, among other media. She also served on the planning committee for the 2024 Transactional Clinical Conference and leads the 2025 Transactional Clinical Conference planning committee.
Areas of Expertise (5)
Entrepreneurial Law
Intellectual Property
Corporate Law
Securities Regulation
Local Government Law
Education (3)
University of Michigan Law School: J.D.
University of Michigan Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning: M.U.P.
Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences: B.A.
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MSU Law professor Anne Choike provides feminist perspective of corporate law in newly published book
Detroit Legal News online
2024-01-11
In the introduction, Professor Choike and her co-editors, Usha R. Rodrigues, University of Georgia School of Law, and Kelli Alces Williams, Florida State University, describe the book’s examination of corporate law as similar to the inaugural volumes that launched the global and U.S. Feminist Judgments Project. “Specifically, the task for this volume’s contributors is to engage explicitly with feminist issues – gender, privilege and oppression, and intersectionality, among others – in corporate law decisions, where such issues are relevant but typically overlooked.”
Ep.210 – Anne Choike on Local Firm Governance
Business Scholarship Podcast online
2024-03-04
Anne Choike, associate clinical professor of law at Michigan State University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Local Firm Governance.
MSU Law Professor Researches Regional Stock Exchanges
Michigan State University online
2023-10-09
MSU Law Associate Clinical Professor of Law Anne Choike took to the road to present her preliminary research on the topic of leveling the playing field for all market participants. Professor Choike stopped at law colleges to highlight the history and possibility of trading venues that equitably support local entrepreneurship and innovation.
Journal Articles (2)
A New Urban Front for Shareholder Primacy
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review2019 The hundredth anniversary of Dodge v. Ford marks an occasion to reflect upon what, if anything, has changed about shareholder primacy in a century. Seizing this opportunity, in this Article I analyze new local laws and ordinances that promote stakeholder governance and engagement, which seek to protect the interests of non-shareholder constituencies such as workers, the environment, and the communities in which corporations operate, among others. In doing so, I argue that such local laws meaningfully differ from traditional stakeholder protections, most significantly in the way that they weaken managerial accountability to shareholders. The emergence of these city laws challenges – and thus creates a new urban front for – shareholder primacy, with both practical implications for the community benefits movement as well as theoretical implications for our understanding of corporate law.
Gallery-Supported Art Exhibitions: Critiquing “Crayola”
Columbia Journal of Tax Law2018 This Article examines galleries’ practice of financially supporting art exhibitions presented by nonprofit art institutions, in light of the requirement imposed upon charitable organizations by the United States Internal Revenue Code to “exclusively” conduct activities that advance a public interest. Board members of nonprofit art organizations have fiduciary duties that require fidelity to the organizational mission, but courts’ deferential position results in tax rules being more restrictive in practice. Nonprofit art organizations receive federal income tax exemption conditional upon their pursuit of a charitable purpose that serves a public, rather than a private, interest. Organizations do not have a charitable, exemption-eligible purpose if they conduct their activities in a commercial manner. In addition, 501(c)(3) organizations operate subject to the condition that their assets do not benefit of any individual who exercises control over them.
