Gabriel Rauterberg

Gabriel Rauterberg is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He teaches Capital Markets Regulation, Corporate Law, and Contracts. His research interests include investment funds, securities regulation, corporate governance, and the history of the corporate form.

Rauterberg’s research has won multiple awards, including being selected twice as one of the top 10 articles published annually in corporate and securities law. The Delaware Supreme Court, Delaware Chancery Court, and Commissioners of the SEC have repeatedly cited his research. Rauterberg’s work has been published in various leading journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and Yale Journal of Regulation, and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, and Bloomberg. He actively engages with policymakers on securities topics and conducts training for international securities regulators.

His current projects study the rapidly evolving nature of investment funds’ structure and regulation as well as private equity investments in public companies. Rauterberg is also interested in the study and digitization of primary sources from economic history, such as the early standard form contracts of the English East India Company.

Before joining the Michigan Law faculty, Rauterberg was a research scholar in capital markets at Columbia University. Before academia, he was an associate at Cooley LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he represented institutions and individuals in a variety of complex securities and commercial matters.