Professor Brakman Reiser joined the BLS faculty in 2001. An expert in the emerging
field of the law of nonprofit organizations, she has been at the forefront of research in
this area. Her writing focuses on two distinct, but related concerns in nonprofit law:
(1) nonprofit accountability and governance; and (2) the role of members and other
non-fiduciary constituencies in nonprofit organizations. Professor Brakman Reiser’s most
recent article, "Independent Directors in the Independent Sector," will be
published in the Fordham Law Review (Fall 2007). The article considers the challenges in
defining the concept of an independent director on a nonprofit board and proposes a
limited role for this concept in nonprofit law reform. She has also published
"Nonprofit Takeovers: Regulating the Market for Mission Control," in the BYU
Law Review (2006) and “Enron.org: Why Sarbanes-Oxley Will Not Ensure Comprehensive
Nonprofit Accountability,” in the U.C. Davis Law Review (2004). She is a member of the
Government Relations Committee of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York.
Before joining the faculty, Professor Brakman Reiser was a Legal Fellow in the Office of
the General Counsel of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. and served as a Law Clerk to
Judge Bruce Selya of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She also
was a Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Articles

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Director Independence in the Independent Sector, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 795 (2007)
 

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Nonprofit Takeovers: Regulating the Market for Mission Control, 2006 BYU L. Rev. 1181 (2006)
 

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Introduction [Symposium: Who Guards the Guardians?: Monitoring and Enforcement of Charity Governance] (with E. Brody), 80 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 543 (2005)
 

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There Ought to Be a Law: The Disclosure Focus of Recent Legislative Proposals for Nonprofit Reform [Symposium: Who Guards the Guardians?: Monitoring and Enforcement of Charity Governance], 80 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 559 (2005)
 

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Enron.org: Why Sarbanes-Oxley Will Not Ensure Comprehensive Nonprofit Accountability, 38 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 205 (2004)
 

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Books

Conditional Strategies: A Response to Collective Action Problems in Non-Profit Fund Raising (1995)
 

Unpublished Papers

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Charity Law's Essentials, ExpressO (2009)
The boundary between charity and business has become a moving target. Social enterprises, philanthropy divisions...
 

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For-Profit Philanthropy, ExpressO (2008)
This essay examines Google’s adoption of the novel and unorthodox for-profit philanthropy model. Google created...