Ruth Hughes serves as Associate Professor of Business Law at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She also currently serves as Department Chair of the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership at Wilkes.
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Hughes is a licensed attorney and received her JD from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and her BA in Economics from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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She began her career as an attorney specializing in corporate transactions in New York City and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She was director of the Small Business Development Center in Wilkes-Barre for many years before joining the faculty of the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership at Wilkes University in 2013.
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Her research interests, publications and presentations include the areas of environmental sustainability in business, equity crowdfunding and emerging trends in securities laws. She serves as a reviewer for several academic publications and is the co-author of a business law textbook published by McGraw Hill.
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Hughes is an active member of many university, professional and community organizations.
