Professor Yaron Nili

Yaron Nili is a corporate law and securities law scholar whose research focuses on traditional corporate governance, the role and function of boards of directors, shareholder activism, hedge funds, and private equity. He joined the faculty of Duke Law School in July 2024. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Nili earned his LLB and MBA in finance from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he was editor-in-chief of the Hebrew University Law Review. He went on to clerk for Justice Ayala Procaccia on the Supreme Court of Israel before attending Harvard Law School, where he studied as a Fulbright Fellow, receiving his LLM degree and subsequently his SJD. While at Harvard, Nili served as a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and as a fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance. He also worked at Simpson Thacher in New York as a corporate associate, representing financial institutions and other companies in commercial lending transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and securities.

Most recently, Nili was a professor of law and the Smith-Rowe Faculty Fellow in Business Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he taught courses in corporate and securities law.

His recent publications appear or are forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Southern California Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and the Harvard Business Law Review. Five of his articles have been voted by business law professors as among the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of the year. Professor Nili's work is available for download on his SSRN page.