Jonathan R. Macey

Program Fellow
  • Yale Law School
  • Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law
     
  • Yale School of Management
    Professor

Professor Macey teaches at Yale Law School and at Yale School of Management. His recent course offerings include Accounting, Finance, and Law, Banking Law and Regulation, Business Organizations, Financial Institutions and Capital Markets, and Law, Economics, and Organization. He has authored several books, including the two-volume treatise Macey on Corporation Laws and his co-authored casebooks Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies and Banking Law and Regulation. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Governance, the Economics Advisory Board of FINRA, and the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA.

Prior to joining the Yale Law School faculty in 2004, Professor Macey has taught at Cornell University (1991 - 2004; 1987 - 1990), where he was DuPratt White Professor of Law, Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at Cornell Law School and Professor of Law and Business at the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Business. He has also taught at the University of Chicago Law School (1989 - 1991) and Emory Law School (1983 - 1986).

After graduating from Yale Law School, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Henry J. Friendly of United States Court of Appeals for Second Circuit (1982 - 1983).

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