Gabriel Rauterberg is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. He teaches Corporate Law, Capital Markets Regulation, and Contracts. His research interests include corporate governance, securities regulation, investment funds, contract law, and financial institutions.

Rauterberg’s research has won multiple awards, including being selected twice as one of the top 10 articles published annually in corporate and securities law. The Delaware Supreme Court, Delaware Chancery Court, and Commissioners of the SEC have repeatedly cited his research. Rauterberg’s solo and co-authored work has been published in various leading journals, including the Harvard Law ReviewStanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and Yale Journal of Regulation, and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, and Bloomberg. He is routinely cited in the press for his expertise in corporate and securities law, and conducts training for international securities regulators.

His current projects include empirical studies of private investments in public equity and of the contracting practices of England’s first business corporations, the analysis of developments in contemporary corporate governance and securities law, and an interdisciplinary effort to study the trading behavior of artificially intelligent algorithms.

Rauterberg is also the co-author of three books: a systematic analysis of policy issues in securities trading markets, The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy (with Merritt Fox and Larry Glosten; Columbia University Press, 2019); a contracts casebook, Contracts: Law, Theory, and Practice (with Daniel Markovits; Foundation Press, 2018); and a popular primer on corporate law, Corporations in 100 Pages (with Holger Spamann and Scott Hirst, 2022).

Before joining the Michigan Law faculty, Rauterberg was a research scholar in capital markets at Columbia University. Before academia, he was an associate at Cooley LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he represented institutions and individuals in a variety of complex civil disputes ranging from class action securities fraud suits to breach of contract and fiduciary duty claims. Since then, he has been an expert or consultant on a number of litigation matters involving securities law, corporate governance, and contract law.