{"id":27,"date":"2023-08-07T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T18:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/ts\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:12:05","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>I am an Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, where I previously served as Lecturer on Law, Associate Director of the&nbsp;Program on Corporate Governance, and Terence M. Considine Senior Fellow in Law and Economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/research\/\">research<\/a> interests are in corporate law and governance, empirical law &amp; finance, legal theory, and the political and moral dimensions of markets. My papers appear or are forthcoming in the&nbsp;<em>Business Lawyer,&nbsp;Cornell Law Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Harvard Business Law Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law<\/em>, <em>Hastings Law Journal<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Journal of Corporation Law, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Analysis<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Southern California Law Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online,&nbsp;Vanderbilt Law Review,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Yale Journal on Regulation<\/em>. I have also published articles for a broader audience in&nbsp;<em>The Atlantic<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Boston Review, <\/em>and the <em>Harvard Business Review.<\/em>&nbsp;My research has been featured, among other places, in&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg Opinion<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Economist<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Financial Times<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;<\/em>the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>, and the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to joining Harvard, I spent more than a decade in private practice, working on transnational corporate deals at leading law firms in Europe and the United States, including as as an associate in the corporate and M&amp;A group of Kirkland &amp; Ellis in New York, and as a partner at a leading Italian law firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a law degree from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and a doctorate (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Nov-24-Prof-Photo3-1024x933.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Nov-24-Prof-Photo3-1024x933.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Nov-24-Prof-Photo3-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Nov-24-Prof-Photo3-768x699.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Nov-24-Prof-Photo3-1536x1399.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/10\/Nov-24-Prof-Photo3-2048x1865.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harvard Law School<\/strong><br><strong>Griswold Hall<\/strong><br>1525 Massachusetts Avenue<br>Cambridge, MA 02138<br><a href=\"mailto:rtallarita@law.harvard.edu\">rtallarita@law.harvard.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, where I previously served as Lecturer on Law, Associate Director of the&nbsp;Program on Corporate Governance, and Terence M. Considine Senior Fellow in Law and Economics. My research interests are in corporate law and governance, empirical law &amp; finance, legal theory, and the political and moral dimensions &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/bio\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bio<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/roberto-tallarita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}