Our Organization
YLS Profs. and Center Co-Dirs. Sarath Sanga ’14 (left) and Roberta Romano ’80 (center), and Center Exec. Dir. Nancy Liao ’05 (right)
Roberta Romano ’80, YLS Sterling Professor of Law, and Sarath Sanga ’14, YLS Professor of Law, co-direct the Center. Nancy Liao ’05, is the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director. Our Executive Committee, consisting of Yale Law School faculty, aid in planning Center programming. The Center has a Board of Advisors of distinguished alumni and members of the bar. Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. ’87, Co-Chair of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and a Partner in the Litigation Group, has been the Chairman of the Board since 2018. The Center also has a number of affiliated faculty, from other parts of Yale University, who participate in Center programs on a regular basis.
Our Executive Committee
Front row: Anthony Kronman ’75 and Roberta Romano ’80.
Second row: John D. Morley ’06, Yair Listokin ’05, Jonathan R. Macey ’82, Christine Jolls, Alan Schwartz ’64, and Alvin K. Klevorick.
Third row: Sven Riethmueller, Daniel Markovits ’00, YLS Dean Heather Gerken, Ian Ayres ’86, and Zachary Liscow ’15.
Ian Ayres ’86 (Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law)
Amy Chua (John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law)
Heather Gerken (Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law)
Henry B. Hansmann ’74 (Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law)
Christine Jolls (Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization)
Alvin K. Klevorick (John Thomas Smith Professor of Law and Professor of Economics and Counselor to the Dean)
Anthony T. Kronman ’75 (Sterling Professor of Law)
John H. Langbein (Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Legal History)
Nancy Liao ’05 (John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director of the Center and Senior Research Scholar in Law)
Zachary Liscow ’15 (Professor of Law)
Yair Listokin ’05 (Deputy Dean and Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law)
Jonathan R. Macey ’82 (Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law)
Daniel Markovits ’00 (Guido Calabresi Professor of Law)
Noah Messing ’00 (Lecturer in the Practice of Law and Legal Writing)
John D. Morley ’06 (Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law)
George L. Priest (Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics)
Sven Riethmueller (Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Robert Todd Lang ’47 Entrepreneurship Fellow)
Roberta Romano ’80 (Sterling Professor of Law and Center Co-Director)
Sarath Sanga ’14 (Professor of Law and Center Co-Director)
Natasha Sarin (Professor of Law)
Alan Schwartz ’64 (Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law)
Our Board of Advisors
Curtis H. Barnette ’62 (Bethlehem Steel Corporation; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom)
Joel S. Beckman ’79 (Greenbriar Equity Group LLC; Co-Founder and Managing Partner until 2017)
Candace Beinecke (Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP)
Thomas H. Bell ’83 (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP)
Craig B. Brod ’80 (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP)
Mark S. Campisano ’80 (The Veritas Forum)
Janet Langford Carrig ’83 (ConocoPhillips, General Counsel from 2007-2018)
Andrew J. Ceresney ’96 (Debevoise & Plimpton LLP)
William B. Chandler III ’79 LL.M. (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati)
Michael J. Chepiga ’79 (Deutsche Bank from 2014-2015)
George T. Conway ’87
Sharon H. Cott ’85 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Ronald E. Creamer ’91 (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP)
Victoria A. Cundiff ’80 (Sedona Conference Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets Law, Chair; Center Fellow)
Stephen M. Cutler ’85 (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP)
Amanda Flug Davidoff ’03 (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)
Gregg L. Engles ’82 (Capitol Peak Partners)
Peter R. Ezersky ’85 (Stony Hill Capital)
Umar Farooq ’00 (J.P. Morgan)
Boris Feldman ’80 (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
Reid L. Feldman ’71 (Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP (Paris))
Arthur Fleischer, Jr. ’58 (Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP)
Gregory J. Fleming ’88 (Rockefeller Capital Management)
Stephen Fraidin ’64 (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP)
Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. ’87 (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Chairman of the Board of Advisors)
Linda C. Goldstein ’85 (Center for Reproductive Rights)
Kimberley D. Harris ’96 (Comcast Corporation and NBCUniversal)
Ben W. Heineman ’71 (General Electric, Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs until 2005)
Kris F. Heinzelman ’76 (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP until 2016)
Joanna C. Hendon ’91 (Alston & Bird LLP)
Marshall S. Huebner ’93 (Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP)
Dani R. James ’95 (Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP)
Frank R. Jimenez ’91 (GE HealthCare)
Randall K.C. Kau ’74 (XE Capital Management LLC)
Eleazer Klein ’91 (Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP)
Martin W. Korman ’89 (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati)
Mei Lin Kwan-Gett ’92 (Citigroup)
Eugene W. Landy ’58 (Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation)
Lewis J. Liman ’87 (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York)
Eugene A. Ludwig ’73 (Canapi Ventures; Ludwig Advisors)
Brent McIntosh ’99 (Citi)
Charles M. Nathan ’65 (FGS Global)
Lynn K. Neuner ’92 (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP)
Edward J. Nicoll ’97 (Instinet Group, Inc. and Datek Online Holdings Corp., former Chief Executive Officer)
Jack “Rusty” O'Kelley ’92 (Russell Reynolds Associates)
Michèle O. Penzer ’93 (Latham & Watkins LLP)
Mitchell S. Presser ’89 (Morrison & Foerster LLP)
Alfred M. Rankin ’66 (Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc.)
David Richter ’92 (DoorDash)
Eric S. Robinson ’83 (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
Gabriel D. Rosenberg ’09 (Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP)
Steven A. Rosenblum ’82 (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
Stephen Roti ’95 (Citi)
Laura Safdie ’11 (Thomson Reuters; formerly with Casetext)
Daniel Simon ’14 (Coast)
Michael S. Solender ’89 (Ernst & Young)
Benjamin F. Stapleton ’69 (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)
Jon Steitz ’07 (McKinsey & Company)
Gerald B. Tanyi ’92 (LL.M.), ’94 (J.S.D.) (International Finance Corporation)
Josh Targoff ’96 (Third Point LLC)
Rosa A. Testani ’88 (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP)
Elina Tetelbaum ’10 (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
Marc Treviño ’93 (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)
Osamu Watanabe ’85 (Moelis & Company)
Mark Wiedman ’96 (BlackRock, Inc.)
David M. Zornow ’80 (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Center Fellow)
Gerson Zweifach ’79 (Williams & Connolly LLP)
Our Affiliated Faculty
Rick Antle (SOM) (William S. Beinecke Professor of Accounting)
Judith A. Chevalier (SOM) (William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics and Faculty Director, Program on Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact)
Christopher Clayton (SOM) (Assistant Professor of Finance)
Stanley J. Garstka (SOM) (Professor in the Practice Emeritus of Management)
Alan Gerber (Political Science) (Sterling Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Professor of Economics and of Statistics and Data Science)
Gary B. Gorton (SOM) (Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor Emeritus of Management and Finance)
Timothy W. Guinnane (Economics) (Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics)
Naomi Lamoreaux (Economics and History) (Stanley B. Resor Professor Emeritus of Economics and History)
Song Ma (SOM) (Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship)
Andrew Metrick (SOM) (Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management)
Barry Nalebuff (SOM) (Milton Steinbach Professor of Management)
Benjamin Polak (Economics and SOM) (William C. Brainard Professor of Economics & Professor of Management)
Robert J. Shiller (Economics and SOM) (Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance)
Kelly Shue (SOM) (Professor of Finance)
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld (SOM) (Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management)
Matthew Spiegel (SOM) (Professor of Finance)
Shyam Sunder (SOM) (James L. Frank Professor Emeritus of Accounting, Economics, and Finance)
Jacob Thomas (SOM) (Williams Brothers Professor of Accounting and Finance)
Heather E. Tookes (SOM) (Deputy Dean for Faculty and Professor of Finance)
X. Frank Zhang (SOM) (James L. Frank '32 Professor of Accounting)