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Simone Sepe

Role: Full-Time Faculty - Professor
Address:
Jackman Law Building

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.

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Areas of Interest

  • Law & Economics
  • Legal Theory
  • Private Law

Research

Corporate law; Corporate Finance, Law and Economics; Empirical Methods; Contract Theory; Law and Philosophy.

Selected Publications

Poison Pills in the Shadow of the Law, in J. Fin. & Quant. Analysis (forthcoming 2025) (with K.J.M. Cremers and M. Zator).
Contract Remedies for the New Economy Collaborations, 101 Tex. L. Rev. 751 (2023) (with A. Schwartz).
Citizen Corp. – Corporate Activism and Democracy, 100 Wash. U. L. Rev. 257 (2022) (with S. Masconale).
Blood in the Water: The Value of Anti-takeover Provisions During Market Shocks, 143 J. Fin. Econ. 1070 (2022) (with S.B. Guernsey and M. Serfling).
Economic Challenges for the Law of Contract, 38 Yale J. Reg. 678 (2021) (with A. Schwartz).
Corporate Law and the Myth of Efficient Market Control, 105 Cornell L. Rev. 101 (2020) (with W. J. Bratton).
Staggered Boards and Long-Term Firm Value, Revisited, 126 J. Fin. Econ. 422 (2017) (with K.J. M. Cremers and L. Litov).
The Shareholder Value of Empowered Boards, 68 Stan. L. Rev. 67 (2016) (with K.J. M. Cremers).

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