 | Roberta Romano |
Roberta Romano, the newly designated Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law, is a specialist in corporate law and finance, financial market regulation and corporate governance.
Romano is a founder of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law and served as its director 2000-2001. She has written extensively on takeover regulation, state competition for corporate charters, shareholder litigation, institutional investor activism in corporate governance, and the regulation of financial instruments and securities markets. Her books include "The Genius of American Corporate Law" and "The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation." She is series editor of the Foundations of Law reader series of Foundation Press and editor of a volume in the series titled "Foundations of Corporate Law."
Romano has also written many articles, two of which were selected in Corporate Practice Commentator's annual poll on the "10 Best Corporate and Securities" articles in their year of publication.
A graduate of the University of Rochester, Romano earned an M.A. at the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Yale in 1980. She served as the note editor of the Yale Law Journal and won first prize in the Law School's Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition. After graduating, she served as a law clerk to Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, then joined the faculty at Stanford University. She taught there for four years before coming to Yale in 1984 as a visiting associate professor; she was promoted to a full professorship on the law school faculty a year later. Since 1986, Romano has also taught at the Yale School of Management. She was named the Allen Duffy/Class of 1960 Professor of Law in 1991.
Romano received a Yale Law Women Teaching Award in 1997. She has held distinguished professorships and given named lectures at universities in the United States and beyond. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Corporate Governance Institute, and is a former president of the American Law and Economics Association.
A research associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research, she serves on the editorial and advisory boards of a number of professional journals, including the American Law and Economics Review, European Business Organization Law Review and Supreme Court Economic Review.
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