Helen S. Scott is Professor of Law Emerita and the founder of the Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business at the New York University School of Law. In that capacity, she participated in the development of innovative Law and Business courses, including Law and Business of Corporate Governance, Law and Business of Corporate Turnarounds and Leadership, and Professional Responsibility in Law and Business. The Program also coordinates programming with the Stern School of Business, including the J.D./M.B.A. Program. She has been a member of the NYU School of Law faculty since 1982 and has taught a wide variety of business law courses, including the basic Contracts and Corporations courses.
Professor Scott is also the founding Co-Director of the Grunin Center for Law & Social Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law. In that capacity, she oversaw implementation of the educational and collaborative activities of the Center, including the Annual Conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing and the award of the Grunin Prize.
From 1999-2004, Professor Scott co-chaired the Listing and Hearing Review Council of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., an independent advisory committee to the Board of Directors, with primary responsibility for formulating and recommending corporate governance and quantitative listing standards for that market. Professor Scott speaks regularly on corporate governance topics. In 1997, Professor Scott received the Legal Advocate of the Year award from the U.S. Small Business Administration in recognition of her participation in the development of the Angel Capital Electronic Network (ACE-Net) project to increase financing available to early-stage entrepreneurial enterprises. Before joining the law faculty, Professor Scott practiced law in Washington D.C. and New York.