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Sterling Professor of Law and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law

Sterling 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, Society for Empirical Legal Studies, 2009-2010
President, American Law & Economics Association, 1998-1999
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
European Business Organization Law Review
Journal of Corporate Law Studies
Experimental and Empirical Studies Abstracts
White Collar Crime Abstracting Journal

Books
Foundations of Corporate Law, 2nd Edition, ed., Foundation Press, 2010

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

The Genius of American Corporate Law, AEI Press, 1993

Selected Articles
"Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting on Compensation Plans: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation" (with M. Cremers), American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 13, No. 220, 2011

"Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?" Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 26, No. 229, 2009

"Reforming Executive Compensation: Focusing and Committing to the Long-term" (with S. Bhagat), Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 26. No. 359, 2009. Revised version, "Reforming Executive Compensation: Simplicity, Transparency and Committing to the Long-term" (with S. Bhagat), European Company and Financial Law Review, Vol. 7, No. 273, 2010. Revised version, "Reforming Financial Executives’ Compensation for the Long Term" (with S. Bhagat), in J. Hill and R. Thomas, eds., The Research Handbook on Executive Pay, Edward Elgar Publishers, forthcoming

"The Promise and Peril of Corporate Governance Indices" (with S. Bhagat and B. Bolton), Columbia Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 1803, 2008. Abridged version in H. Schenk and W.J. Oostwouder, eds., Corporate Governance of the Modern Firm, Edward Elgar Publishers, forthcoming. Revised version published as "Effect of Corporate Governance on Performance", in H. Kent Baker and Ron Anderson, eds., Corporate Governance, John Wiley & Sons, 2010

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