UC Law lecture to explore how fintech is transforming financial markets

Professor Saule T. Omarova specializes in the regulation of financial institutions, banking law, international finance, and corporate finance. Before joining Cornell Law School in 2014, she was the George R. Ward Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Throughout her career, Professor Omarova has served in many positions, including Visiting Professor at Yale University Law School, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, Senior Fellow at the Berggruen Institute, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Torino (Italy), and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (Canada).

Professor Omarova has authored numerous scholarly articles, which have been published in the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Journal of Financial Regulation, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Yale Journal on Regulation, Cornell Law Review, Washington University Law Review, the Miami Law Review, among many other journals and publications. In addition, she has authored or co-authored many white papers, book chapters and reports.

Prior to joining academia, Professor Omarova practiced law in the Financial Institutions Group of Davis, Polk, & Wardwell, where she specialized in a wide variety of corporate transactions and advisory work in the area of financial regulation. In 2006-2007, she served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance.

Professor Omarova graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in Philosophy. She received her JD from Northwestern University School of Law, and PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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