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Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law

The Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, Roberta Romano specializes in corporate law and financial market regulation. She has written extensively on state competition for corporate charters, the political economy of takeover regulation, shareholder litigation, institutional investor activism in corporate governance, and the regulation of financial instruments and securities markets.

Achievements and Awards
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, since 1995
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Corporate Finance Program, since 1999
President, American Law & Economics Association, 1998-99
Yale Law Women Teaching Award, 2007 and 1997

Editorships
Editorial Boards:
Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization
Supreme Court Economic Review
American Law and Economics Review
Corporate Securities and Finance Law Abstracts
The Financial Review
European Business Organization Law Review
Journal of Corporate Law Studies
Experimental and Empirical Studies Abstracts
White Collar Crime Abstracting Journal

Books
The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation, AEI Press, 2002

The Genius of American Corporate Law, AEI Press, 1993

Foundations of Corporate Law, ed., Foundation Press, 1993

Selected Articles
"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Making of Quack Corporate Governance," Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114, 1521, 2005; reprinted in Securities Law Review, Vol. 38, 2006; excerpted as "Sarbanes-Oxley: Quack Corporate Governance," The Corporate Board, Sept./Oct. 2005, and as "Quack Corporate Governance", Regulation, Vol. 28, 36, Winter, 2005-06

"The States as a Laboratory: Legal Innovation and State Competition for Corporate Charters," Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 23, 209, 2006, reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator, Vol. 48, 669, 2007, and abridged version in A. Gerber and E. Patashnik, eds., Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance, Brookings Institution Press, 2006

"After the Revolution in Corporate Law," Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 55, 342, 2005

"Is Regulatory Competition a Problem or Irrelevant for Corporate Governance?" Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 21, 212, 2005

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