
Simone Sepe
78 Queen's Park
Education
Ph.D. (Philosophy) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States), 2024
Ph.D. (Economics) Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France, 2013
MRes (Mathematical Economics) Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France, 2011
J.S.D. Yale Law School, New Haven, CT (United States), 2009
M.Sc. (Financial Economics) Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France, 2009
Ph.D. (Law and Economics) University of Siena, Siena, Italy, 2006
LL.M. Yale Law School, New Haven, CT (United States), 2005
Laurea in Giurisprudenza (J.D.) LUISS University, Rome, Italy, 1998
Overview
Simone M. Sepe is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto's Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law, where he also holds the Honorable Frank Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation and holds a cross-appointment at the Rotman School of Management. His expertise includes business organizations, corporate finance, contract theory, law and economics, empirical methods, and law and philosophy. Professor Sepe holds doctoral degrees in law from Yale Law School and in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics. He has taught at several law schools, including the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Arizona, where he held the Chester H. Smith Professorship of Law and Finance. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Yale Law School Center for Private Law and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. Additionally, he is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel. Before his academic career, Professor Sepe practiced banking law and structured finance at Clifford Chance in London and worked as an investment banker at Fortress Investment Group in London and New York.
Areas of Interest
- Law & Economics
- Legal Theory
- Private Law
Teaching
Fall Session
Full Year Session
Winter Session
Fall Session
Research
Corporate law; Corporate Finance, Law and Economics; Empirical Methods; Contract Theory; Law and Philosophy.
Selected Publications
Academic appointments
Professor of Law
Frank Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation
Director, Michael Trebilcock Law & Economics Program
Professor of Finance (cross-appointment), Rotman School of Management
Research Fellow, Johnston Centre for Corporate Governance Innovation, Rotman School of Management
Senior Corresponding Fellow, Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona
Research Member, European Corporate Governance Institute
Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel