Paul Rose
Education and Experience
- BA, Brigham Young University, Philosophy, 1995 (with honors)
- JD, U.C.L.A. School of Law, 2001
Biography
Paul Rose is the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and the J. Gilbert Reese Chair in Contract Law. He teaches Business Associations, Comparative Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, Investment Management Law, and Securities Regulation.
Dean Rose has written extensively on sovereign wealth funds, corporate governance, and securities regulation. His work has been published in several prestigious journals, including the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Harvard Business Law Journal, and the online journals of the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Northwestern University Law Review, among others. Additionally, he has consulted with and provided testimony on these topics to numerous regulators and other agencies, including the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and the Government Accountability Office.
Prior to joining the faculty at Moritz, Dean Rose was a visiting assistant professor in securities and finance at Northwestern University School of Law. Before joining Northwestern, Rose practiced law in the corporate and securities practice group of Covington & Burling LLP’s San Francisco office. He worked as an assistant trader in equity and emerging market derivatives at Citibank, N.A. in New York prior to attending law school.
Dean Rose leads Ohio State University’s Sustainable Finance Exploratory Research Group, and currently serves as the co-chair the sub-committee on Shareholder Activism and Engagement of the American Bar Association’s Corporate Governance Committee. In 2023, he was elected to the American Law Institute.
An Introduction to the Law of Business Organizations (3d ed. forthcoming 2023).
Strategic Investment Funds: Establishment and Operations (2022).
Debt for Climate: Green Bonds and Other Instruments, in Research Handbook on Climate Finance and Investment Law (forthcoming 2023).
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The New Great Wall Against China, 12 Nat'l Sec. L. Brief 1 (2022)
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Catalyzing Sustainable Investment, 51 Envtl. L. 1221 (2021)
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Toward a National Resilience Fund, 116 Nw. U. L. Rev. 41 (2021)
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Proxy Advisors and Market Power: A Review of Institutional Investor Robovoting, in Report for the Manhattan Institute (April 2021).
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Pillars of the Post-Pandemic Economy, in 2020 Annual Report, IE Sovereign Wealth Lab (March 2021).
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Examining the SEC's Proxy Advisor Rule, in Report for U.S. Chamber of Commerce (2020).
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The Political and Governance Risks of Sovereign Wealth, 4 Annals Corp. Governance (2019)
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