Prof. Paolo Saguato

Paolo Saguato is an Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University specializing in financial regulation. His research interests encompass the intersection of banking, securities and derivatives regulation; the international and comparative dynamics and regulations of financial institutions; financial innovation and technology; and corporate law and theory. His recent scholarship has been published in the Yale Journal on Regulation; the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance; the Journal of Corporate Law Studies; and the Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation.

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 earned a BA (Laurea in Scienze Giuridiche) and a JD (Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza) summa cum laude at the University of Genoa (Italy) and 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, where he focused his studies on financial markets regulation and corporate law and was a senior editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Professor Saguato teaches Business Associations and International Finance and Regulation.

Paolo Saguato is currently LSE Fellow in Financial Regulation. He joined LSE after a year as a Global Hauser Fellow at New York University School of Law where he was affiliated with the Center for Financial Institutions and conducted research on the repurchase agreement market. From 2012-2013 Paolo was a Visiting Researcher at St. John’s College - University of Oxford and from 2011-2012 he attended Yale Law School as a Fulbright Scholar where he was a Senior Editor of the Yale Journal of Regulation. Paolo holds a Ph.D. in ‘Private, Business, and International Law’ from the University of Genoa; a LL.M. degree from Yale Law School; and a Law Degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Genoa.