Christine Hurt

Christine Hurt joins SMU Dedman School of Law as the inaugural Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in Corporate, Partnership, Business, and Securities Law. Professor Hurt comes to SMU Law from Brigham Young University Law School where she was the George Sutherland Chair and Professor of Law. 

Professor Hurt joined the BYU faculty as the Rex J. and Maureen E. Rawlinson Professor in 2014, and she served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Curriculum, and then as Associate Dean for Academic Projects. Prior to that, she was a Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Business Law and Policy at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Prior to teaching at Illinois, Professor Hurt taught at Marquette University Law School and the University of Houston. As a teaching fellow at Texas Tech University School of Law, she co-pioneered a system of online legal citation exercises, now the Interactive Citation Workbook and its related web-based program on the LexisNexis website.

Professor Hurt was a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA, which hears appeals regarding broker-dealer and registered representative violations of FINRA and SEC rules.

Before entering law teaching, Professor Hurt practiced corporate law in Houston at Baker Botts L.L.P., and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. As a first-year law student, she co-founded the Texas Journal of Women and the Law.

Professor Hurt's teaching and research focuses on securities regulation, corporate tax, micro finance, torts, and business associations. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Corporation Law, Iowa Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, American Bankruptcy Law Journal, UC-Davis Law Review, and Cardozo Law Review. Recently, she and BYU colleague Gordon Smith published a new edition of the popular treatise "Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership" with Wolters Kluwer.

Professor Alan Bromberg, for whom the endowed Centennial Chair position is named, taught at SMU Dedman School of Law for more than 60 years and was a prolific author. His legal writings on corporate tax, partnership, securities, and commodities have been relied upon in more than 500 judicial opinions, including 10 in the United States Supreme Court.

As a tribute to his distinguished career spent teaching and enriching the legal profession, a generous gift from his wife, Dr. Anne Bromberg, established the Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in Corporate, Partnership and Securities Law in Dedman Law.