Dr. Yaron Nili

Biography

Yaron Nili is a Professor at Duke University School of Law, specializing in corporate law and securities law. His research focuses on traditional corporate governance, the roles and functions of boards of directors, shareholder activism, hedge funds, and private equity. Nili joined the Duke Law School faculty in July 2024 and is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He earned his LLB and MBA in finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the editor-in-chief of the Hebrew University Law Review. Nili has an extensive academic background, having attended Harvard Law School as a Fulbright Fellow, where he received his LLM and subsequently his SJD. During his time at Harvard, he served as a John M. Olin Fellow in the Law and Economics program focused on corporate governance. Additionally, Nili worked as a corporate associate at Simpson Thacher in New York, representing financial institutions and companies in commercial lending transactions, mergers, acquisitions, and securities. Previously, he held a position as a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he taught courses in corporate and securities law. His recent publications are forthcoming in prestigious law journals, including Cornell Law Review and Yale Law Journal.

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