Sarath Sanga

Sarath Sanga is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law at Yale University. He teaches core courses including Corporate Law, Contract Law, Arbitration, and Law and Economics. Previously, he held positions at Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, University of Chicago, Columbia, and UC Berkeley.

Education includes:

• J.D., Yale Law School, 2014
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2011
• B.A., University of Michigan, 2006

His research investigates how contracts and governance structures shape organizational relationships and rules. Key areas include:

• Corporate altering rules and shareholder agreements
• Venture capital contract design and fiduciary conflicts
• Strategic omission in contractual terms
• Arbitration regulatory frameworks
• Empirical analysis of legal institutions (policing, domestic violence, diversity)

He co-founded the SCALES project, using AI to democratize federal court records.

Publications demonstrate strong empirical methodologies applied across corporate law, dispute resolution, and social justice. Recent works show increasing focus on AI/legal tech applications and structural reforms in governance.

As Co-Director of Yale's Corporate Law Center, he oversees research initiatives and policy analysis. SCALES represents a major interdisciplinary effort to increase judicial transparency through natural language processing of court documents.