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Michael A. Perino is the Dean George W. Matheson Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law in New York. He has held academic positions at Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, and Stanford Law School, where he was a Lecturer and Co-Director of the Roberts Program in Law, Business, and Corporate Governance. His expertise spans securities regulation, corporate governance, and class action litigation. Perino authored The Hellhound of Wall Street, winner of the Citi Private Bank Financial History of the Year Prize, and the leading treatise Securities Litigation under the PSLRA. He has testified before U.S. Congress and advised the SEC on securities arbitration reforms.
His research focuses on empirical analysis of securities litigation, judicial decision-making, and the historical and political dimensions of financial regulation. Recent work includes studies on fee-setting in securities class actions and institutional investor activism. Perino has also developed Stanford’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse and contributed to major policy debates on post-financial crisis reforms.
- Major Projects: SEC Report on Arbitrator Conflict Disclosure, Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
- Media Engagements: Regular commentary in Bloomberg, Fortune, and New York Times Dealbook
- Testimonies: U.S. House Financial Services Committee (2005), U.S. Senate Banking Committee (1997)
His awards include recognition for The Hellhound of Wall Street as one of 2010’s best books by Bloomberg/Business Week, Library Journal, and Progressive magazine. Perino’s interdisciplinary approach bridges law, finance, and empirical methods to address critical issues in corporate accountability and regulatory design.
