J.D., Yale Law School, 2009
B.A., University of Toronto, 2006
Corporate Law
Contract and Commercial Law
Corporate Governance
Law and Machine Learning/AI
Private Capital
Gabriel Rauterberg teaches and writes about corporate governance, securities regulation, investment funds, contract law, and financial institutions. His current research projects explore how the two defining developments of modern finance—the growth of private markets and the growth of investment funds—interact. Rauterberg studies the explosive growth of asset management in private markets and the consequences of investment funds’ increasingly dominant role in the financial system, including the need to rethink the fundamentals of how we regulate asset management. Rauterberg is also interested in the history of contract and corporate law, including the East India Company’s standard form contracting practices and medieval corporate law. He is interested in using AI to study how securities law will evolve as well as to make historical texts more broadly accessible and analyzable.
Rauterberg’s articles have been voted among the top 10 corporate and securities law articles of the year. His work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Business Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation, among other journals. His research has been cited by leading corporate law courts, including the Delaware Supreme Court and Delaware Chancery Court, as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission. He is the co-author of three books: The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy (with Columbia Law Professor Merritt B. Fox and Lawrence R. Glosten); Contracts: Law, Theory, and Practice (with Daniel Markovits); and Corporations in 100 Pages (with Holger Spamann and Scott Hirst).
Rauterberg joined the Columbia Law School faculty as a professor of law on July 1, 2026. Previously, he was a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. He launched his academic career as a fellow at Columbia’s Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets. Before academia, he was an associate in New York for Cooley and for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he represented institutions and individuals in a variety of complex civil disputes ranging from class action securities fraud suits to breach of contract and fiduciary duty claims. He has provided expert or consulting advice on a number of complex litigation matters involving securities law, corporate governance, and contract law, and he conducts annual trainings for international securities regulators.