Christyne J. Vachon
Christyne J. Vachon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
christyne.vachon@email.und.edu
Professor Vachon is a visiting professor at University of North Dakota School of Law for the 2012-2013 school year. Previously, Professor Vachon taught as a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska, College of Law for the 2011-2012 school year, as the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and as adjunct faculty at Northeastern University. She also taught as a fellow in the master's program at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College and a J.D. from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, where she was a Chancellor Scholar and editor for the University of Denver Law Review and the Journal of International law and Policy. She received the Leonard v.B Sutton Award for International Law. Professor Vachon clerked for Judge Morris B. Hoffman on the Colorado District Court. She also received a certification of study from the Hague Academy of International Law.
Professor Vachon started her practice working as an attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Enforcement. She then received a Fulbright Grant to teach securities law in Mongolia, where she also consulted with the Mongolian Stock Exchange and the Institute of Finance and Economics. Upon returning to the United States, she served as in-house counsel to a venture capital fund before starting her own legal practice focusing primarily on start-up companies and regulated entities as clients.
Professor Vachon's scholarship focuses on the law applicable to for-profit and nonprofit corporations and international business. Recently, among other scholarly endeavors, she has delved into corporate social responsibility and the legal nuances in cross-sector collaborations between for-profit and nonprofit business entities. In particular, this exploration began from her own practice representing and serving on the boards of directors of both for-profits and nonprofit corporations.