Yaron Nili is a corporate law and securities law scholar whose research focuses on traditional corporate governance, the role and function of boards of directors, shareholder activism, hedge funds, and private equity. He joined the faculty of Duke Law School in July 2024.

Servants of two masters? The feigned hysteria over activist-paid directors.

Yaron G. Nili | Page . 5 • Presented “Peer Group Governance” at the at 2023 American Law and Economics Annual Conference (Boston 2023) • Presented “Peer Group Governance” at the Tulane Corporate Roundtable (Tulane 2023)

2024年7月2日 · Yaron Nili, a scholar and teacher of corporate law, corporate governance, and securities law, joined Duke Law School on July 1 as a professor of law. Most recently, Nili was a professor of law and the Smith-Rowe Faculty Fellow in Business Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

• Professor of Law 2024-Present Courses: Securities Regulation, M&A, Corporate Governance and Deals Lab, Governance, Leadership, and Diversity in the Boardroom. Reprinted in SECURITIES LAW REVIEW 2021 (Donald C. Langevoort, ed. West 2021) as one of the best securities law articles of the year. Cited in Voigt v. Metcalf, (Del. Ch. 2020)

Yaron Nili is a corporate law and securities law scholar whose research focuses on traditional corporate governance, the role and function of boards of directors, shareholder activism, hedge funds, and private equity. He joined the faculty of Duke Law School in July 2024.

2024年5月28日 · Independent directors were originally conceived as guardians of shareholder interests who could safeguard a corporate board’s ability to check management’s power. They have since become a marquee feature of modern corporate governance. What, though, makes a director independent? Scholars, regulators, …

Yaron Nili, a scholar and teacher of corporate law, corporate governance, and securities law, joined Duke Law School on July 1 as a professor of law. Most recently, Nili was a professor of law and the Smith-Rowe Faculty Fellow in Business Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Yaron Nili, The 'New Insiders': Rethinking Independent Directors' Tenure, 68 Hastings Law Journal 97 (2016), Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1390

Yaron Nili, The Fallacy of Director Independence, 2020 Wisconsin Law Review 491-513 (2020) Director independence has become a key cornerstone of the contemporary corporate governance landscape.