Lisa Fairfax is an American personality who has been presenting herself as a legal scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Apart from this, she is also an author who received so many prestigious awards as well.
Early Life
Lisa Fairfax was born in 1970 and has been living in her early 50s. Previous to her position at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she was a professor (Alexander Hamilton Professor) of Business law at the George Washington University Law School. Lisa is a graduate student of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. She met her long-time known friend Ketanji Brown Jackson at Harvard Law School, with whom she became friends and started sharing the room.
The two friends have been in the news since March 2022 because Ketanji Brown Jackson was announced to be the nominee for supreme court justice by President Joe Biden. Ketanji has been confirmed to the post by her longtime friend Lisa. The pair have been known to each other for 35 years. Fairfax is serving as the presidential professor and spoke some good true words about the potential supreme court justice.
Lisa Fairfax Career
Lisa M. Fairfax joined as a Presidential Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics (ILE) at the University of Pennsylvania. Before landing the recognized designation of the law school, she was Alexander Hamilton Professor at the George Washington University Law School. She used to teach courses in the business area covering a large perspective of the disciplinary fields like corporations, seminars, governance in the security law, and others. Fairfax is currently serving as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and the member of the advisory group of ALI Restatement of Law.
Fairfax was formerly the member of the Committee on Corporate Laws in the section of Business Law, the committee which undertakes the responsibility of updating the Model Business Corporation Act. Also, she was a former member of both the Securities Regulation Section and the Business Association’s Section of AALS. Despite this, she has also served a position on the board of the Institute for law and economic policy (ILEP), the SEC Historical Society, and DirectWomen, the organization which undertakes the responsibility or the aim of increasing public company board diversity.
Professor
Besides all the serving positions in different universities, Fairfax has served to be an important member of the Investor Advisory Committee of the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) section. She has also remained a former member of both FINRA and FINRA NASDAQ Market Regulation Committee. Before joining GW Law faculty, Fairfax was a professor at the Law and Director of Business Law program at the University of Maryland School of Law. In the early years of her career, she has practiced corporate and securities law with the private firm Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston. She is a graduate student of honors at Harvard College and has received a degree of JD with honors from Harvard Law School.
Lisa Fairfax Biography |
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| Real Name | Lisa M. Fairfax |
| Birth Date | 1970 |
| Age (as of 2022) | 52 Years |
| Hometown | Washington, DC, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Profession | Author |
| Religion | – |
| Sun sign | – |
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| Height | in feet inches – 5’ 7” – in Centimeters – 170 cm |
| Weight | in Kilograms – 60 kg – in Pounds – 132 lbs |
| Shoe Size | 7.5 (U.S.) |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Eye Color | Black |
| Body Type | Slim |
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| Father | – |
| Mother | – |
| Sister | – |
| Brother | – |
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| School | – |
| College | Harvard Law School and Harvard College |
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| Marital Status | Married |
| Who is her husband? | Roger Fairfax |
| Children | Three (Fatima, Regina & Nadia) |
Author
Lisa has authored many book chapters and textbooks titled with the name Business Organizations: An Integrated Approach, published by Foundation Press. She is also holding the position of the author. She has given directions to various law review articles, which have become the best of ten corporate and securities articles of 2019. Back in 2017, Lisa Fairfax was honored with the award “Outstanding Mentor Award” by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) in the wake of mentoring and her commitments to other professions. Previous to this award in 2016, she was honored with the “Trailblazer Award” for the category of her recognizing position in the field of teaching and giving scholarly contributions to the profession. Later in 2019, Fairfax was voted as “Professor of the Year” by GW Law School students.
Personal Life
The legal scholar, Lisa has been married to her long-time known friend since the days of her education at Harvard University, Roger Fairfax. Her husband, Roger is also a legal scholar like herself. Roger is a graduate student of the law disciplinary field. He is currently serving the position of Dean at the American University Washington College of Law. The couple is raising together three daughters named Fatima, Regina, and Nadia.
Lisa Fairfax Net Worth
It is for sure that the legal scholar Lisa is earning a good amount of money because of her only profession in the legal disciplinary field. Previously, she has been part of many boards and societies at various universities while she was hustling for her career. It is for sure that Lisa Fairfax makes an estimated net worth of around $5 million.
