Veronica Santarosa teaches first-year contract law, economic analysis of law, international finance, and a seminar on the law and history of economic institutions. Her research interests include law and economics, financial economic history, and law and development.

Professor Santarosa's current projects examine, both empirically and theoretically, how legal innovations and political institutions affect firms and financial markets now and throughout history. Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty, she consulted for the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Protection, the Anheuser-Busch InBev M&A division, and for the World Bank-IFC.

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Areas of Interest

Education

  • Ibmec (Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais), BA, economics

  • University of São Paulo, LLB

  • University of Hamburg, MA

  • Yale Law School, LLM

  • Yale University, PhD, economics

Recent Courses

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Featured Scholarship

Review of Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony edited by Pierre Pénet, Juan Flores Zendejas
Journal of Economic History
  • Legal History
"Beyond the Personal-Anonymous Divide: Agency Relations in Powers of Attorney in France, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
Economic History Review
"Don't Cry for Argentina (or other Sovereign Borrowers): Lessons from a Previous Era of Sovereign Debt Contract Enforcement"
Capital Markets Law Journal
"Financing Long-Distance Trade: The Joint Liability Rule and Bills of Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France"
The Journal of Economic History
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Activities

November 2016

Invited presentation, "Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation," UCLA.

November 2016

Invited presentation, "Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation," Harvard Law School.

September 2016

Invited presentation, "Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation," George Mason Law School.

September 2016

Invited presentation, "Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation," Georgetown Law School.

June 2016

Invited presentation, "Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation," Harvard/Stanford/Yale Forum.

October 2015

Invited presentation, "Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation," Columbia Law School.