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Roberta Romano
Sterling Professor of Law; Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Education
- JD, Yale University, 1980
- MA, University of Chicago, 1975
- BA, University of Rochester, 1973
Selected Books
Foundations of Corporate Law
The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation
The Genius of American Corporate Law
Selected Articles
For Diversity in the International Regulation of Financial Institutions: Critiquing and Recalibrating the Basel Architecture
Getting Incentives Right: Is Deferred Bank Executive Compensation Sufficient?
Regulating in the Dark
Reforming Financial Executives’ Compensation for the Long Term
Achievements
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Since 1995
- Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Since 1999
- Fellow, European Corporate Governance Institute, Since 2002
- President, American Law & Economics Association, 1998-1999
- President, Society for Empirical Legal Studies, 2009-2010
- De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize, European Corporate Governance Institute Working Paper Series in Law, 2008
- Annual Poll of 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2009
- Yale Law Women Faculty Excellence Award, 2007, 2014
- Yale Law Women Teaching Award, 1997
Editorships
- Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization Editorial Board
- Supreme Court Economic Review Editorial Board
- Corporate Securities and Finance Law Abstracts Editorial Board
- European Business Organization Law Review Editorial Board
- Journal of Corporate Law Studies Editorial Board
- Experimental and Empirical Studies Abstracts Editorial Board
- White Collar Crime Abstracting Journal Editorial Board
- Journal of Financial Perspectives Editorial Board
- Journal of Financial Regulation Editorial Board