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Roberta Romano is the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Co-Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School (1980), an M.A. from the University of Chicago (1975), and a B.A. from the University of Rochester (1973). Her research focuses on corporate governance, securities regulation, and the political economy of legal frameworks. She has authored influential works such as *The Genius of American Corporate Law* (1993) and *The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation* (2002). Professor Romano is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Corporate Governance Institute, and has received prestigious awards including the Ronald H. Coase Medal (2020) and the Marshall-Wythe Medallion (2018).
Her recent work addresses jurisdictional competition for corporate charters, particularly Texas’s innovative legal reforms. She has also contributed to debates on shareholder activism, institutional investor behavior, and regulatory frameworks post-financial crisis. As a past president of the American Law and Economics Association and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies, she has shaped academic and policy discourse in law and economics. Her role in editing *Journal of Law, Economics and Organization* and co-authoring cross-jurisdictional studies underscores her global impact in corporate law.
Professor Romano’s advisory and grant activities include leadership in the Yale Center for the Study of Corporate Law, organizing events like the 2017 Blockchain Roundtable. Her research extends to policy analysis of securities markets and the evolving role of corporate law in balancing investor protections and managerial autonomy.
