Renée Jones, Dr. Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, is the author of the forthcoming book, Untamed Unicorns: Why Startup Finance Is Broken and How to Fix It (Harvard University Press). The book connects the most dramatic startup scandals, including FTX, Theranos, WeWork, and Uber, to flaws in the startup financing model.
It shows how deregulatory reforms implemented by Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission over the past 40 years have eroded the core safeguards of the federal securities law, first established during the New Deal era.
A nationally recognized expert in corporations and securities law, Jones served as Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 2021 to 2023, leading a team of more than 400 lawyers, accountants, and other professionals charged with interpreting, implementing, and ensuring compliance with the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and related statutory provisions.
Jones has been at BC Law nearly a quarter of a century. She is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her JD from Harvard Law.