Paolo Saguato
Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Paolo Saguato is professor of law and founder and executive director of the Program on Financial Markets at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on U.S., EU, and international financial regulation, with particular attention to financial-market infrastructures, securities and derivatives markets, financial innovation, and corporate law and theory.
Saguato also serves on the Consultative Working Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Central Counterparty Policy Committee and on the Central Counterparty Risk and Governance Subcommittee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Risk Advisory Committee. He is a senior research fellow at the Genoa Centre for Law and Finance.
Before joining George Mason University, Saguato was a research fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was also a global research fellow at New York University School of Law and a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. Earlier in his career, he taught corporate law, securities regulation, and banking law at the University of Genoa.
He is co-editor of “Financial Market Infrastructures—Law and Regulation” and co-author of “Business Associations: A Modern Approach.”
His distinctions include a Fulbright Scholarship and a teaching-excellence award from the London School of Economics.
He earned a Ph.D. in private, business, and international law and a J.D. from the University of Genoa, an LL.M. from Yale Law School, and a bachelor’s from the University of Genoa.
