Anne Choike, ’09, is a clinical assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. Her research, teaching, and practice focuses on corporate law, securities regulation, and local government law, with an emphasis on uplifting economically marginalized entrepreneurs.
She is the founding co-editor of Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten (Cambridge University Press, 2023), to which she also contributed two chapters as a co-author. Her work also has been published in the Harvard Business Law Review, Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review, and the Columbia Journal of Tax Law. In 2024, Choike received a $30,000 grant for her interdisciplinary research to examine the influence of homeowner association governance on the environmental sustainability of residential development.
Choike’s work and commentary have been featured in Crain’s Detroit Business and the Business Law Scholarship Podcast, among other media. She also consults with international law firms as an expert on entrepreneurship law in the United States. Choike served on the planning committee for the 2024 Transactional Clinical Conference and led the 2025 Transactional Clinical Conference planning committee as a co-chair; she is a member of the Global Alliance for Justice Education, among her other service contributions.
Choike’s teaching experience includes founding, leading, and teaching in transactional law clinics and other law courses at numerous law schools since 2014. She joined Michigan Law after visiting at Notre Dame Law School in spring 2025, where she co-taught the Community Development Clinic with a focus on the clinic’s for-profit clients. Before her visit at Notre Dame Law School, Choike was a full-time faculty member at Michigan State University College of Law (MSU Law), where she was promoted to full clinical professor of law in 2025 and was the founding director of the Equitable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Law Clinic since 2022. Choike was also a core faculty member of MSU’s Center for Gender in Global Context. At MSU Law, she taught the Equitable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Law Clinic I and II, as well as Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Law.
Before joining MSU Law in 2022, Choike previously served as the director of the Business and Community Law Clinic and an assistant professor (clinical) at Wayne State University Law School, where she taught the clinic and advanced clinic. Choike also previously taught at the Michigan Law Community and Economic Development Clinic as a clinical law fellow and at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning as a course instructor in its Michigan-Mellon Project on Egalitarianism in the Metropolis. Through the Michigan-Mellon Project, she collaborated with architecture faculty to develop and teach an international, interdisciplinary experimental travel research studio in Detroit, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. Her clinical law experience also includes practicing with Michigan Law’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic during law and graduate school.
Before entering academia, Choike was an attorney at Jenner & Block LLP and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. Before law school, she was an extern for the Hon. Amy St. Eve at the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and worked at General Motors.