Margaret Blair
Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

Margaret Blair is an economist who focuses on management law. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2004 as part of the team supporting the Law and Business program, which the law school offers in conjunction with the Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt.

Professor Blair moved to Vanderbilt Law School from Georgetown University Law Center, where she became a visiting professor in 1996 and served as a Sloan Visiting Professor, teaching Corporations and Corporate Finance, and as Research Director for the Sloan-GULC Project on Business Institutions, from 2000 through June 2004. She has also been a Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where she wrote about corporate governance and the role of human capital in corporations. Her current research focuses on three areas: team production and the legal structure of business organizations, trust as a mechanism of governance in business firms, and the culture of boards of directors, and her articles and commentaries have appeared in numerous professional journals and essay collections, including Restoring Trust in American Business, a collection of essays and commentaries published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. She currently serves on the board of directors of Sonic Corp.

Professor Blair holds a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.A., M.Phil. and PhD. in economics from Yale University.