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Paolo Saguato

  • Professor of Law
  • Founder and Executive Director, Program on Financial Markets
  • PhD, University of Genoa
  • JD, University of Genoa
  • LLM, Yale University
  • BA, University of Genoa

Professional Information

  • SSRN Author Profile Page
  • Subjects Taught:
    • Business Associations
    • Derivatives Law & Policy
    • Financial Services Workshop
    • International Finance and Regulation
    • Law & Regulation of Financial Institutions
  • Curriculum Vitae: CV in PDF format
  • Area(s) of Expertise:
    • Corporations
    • EU and International Financial Regulation
    • Financial Regulation
    • Securities and Derivatives Regulation

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Biographical Sketch

Paolo Saguato is Professor of Law and Founder and Executive Director of the Program on Financial Markets at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He teaches financial regulation, business associations, and securities and derivatives regulation. In his research, Professor Saguato focuses on U.S., EU and international financial regulation and, more specifically, the regulation of financial market infrastructures, and securities and derivatives markets; financial innovation; and corporate law and theory. His research has been featured in publications including the Yale Journal on Regulation; the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance; the Ohio State Law Journal; the Journal of Corporate Law Studies; and the Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation. Professor Saguato is a co-editor of one of the leading books on financial market infrastructures, Financial Market Infrastructures - Law and Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2022); and the co-author of Business Associations: A Modern Approach (Foundation Press, 2023).

Professor Saguato serves on the Consultative Working Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Central Counterparty (CCP) Policy Committee and on the CCP Risk and Governance Subcommittee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Risk Advisory Committee.

Before joining Antonin Scalia Law School, Professor Saguato was a Research Fellow at the Georgetown Law Center (Institute of International Economic Law) and a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he received the Teaching Excellence Award. Before that he was a Global Hauser Fellow at New York University School of Law where he was affiliated with the Center for Financial Institutions. Professor Saguato graduated summa cum laude from the University of Genoa Law School (Italy) and earned a PhD in Private, Business, and International Law at the same university. In addition, he holds a LLM from Yale Law School, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, and where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation.