Roberta Romano

Roberta Romano is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters, the political economy of takeover regulation, shareholder litigation, institutional investor activism in corporate governance and the regulation of securities markets and financial instruments and institutions. Professor Romano is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Corporate Governance Institute, a research associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research, a past President of the American Law and Economics Association and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies, and a past co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. She is a recipient of William & Mary Law School’s Marshall-Wythe Medallion, which recognizes those who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishment in law and was honored for exemplary mentorship by the Business Associations section of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Romano has received the Yale Law Women teaching award three times and is the author of The Genius of American Corporate Law (1993) and The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation (2002), editor of Foundations of Corporate Law, 2d ed. (2010) and co-editor with Shen Wei, of Financial Regulation After the Global Financial Crisis: US and China Perspectives (2017) (in Chinese).

EDUCATION

• JD , Yale University, 1980
• MA , University of Chicago, 1975
• BA , University of Rochester, 1973

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

SELECTED BOOKS

Foundations of Corporate Law R. Romano 2010

The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation R. Romano 2002

The Genius of American Corporate Law R. Romano

SELECTED ARTICLES

For Diversity in the International Regulation of Financial Institutions: Critiquing and Recalibrating the Basel Architecture R. Romano Yale Journal on Regulation 2014

Getting Incentives Right: Is Deferred Bank Executive Compensation Sufficient? R. Romano, Sanjai Bhagat, & B. Bolton Yale Journal on Regulation 2014

Regulating in the Dark R. Romano Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation 2012

Reforming Financial Executives’ Compensation for the Long Term S. Bhagat and R. Romano The Research Handbook on Executive Pay 2012

Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation M. Cremers and R. Romano American Law and Economics Review 2011