Robert Bishop
Contact: rbishop@iilawfin.org
Robert E. Bishop is the Chief Financial Officer of the International Institute of Law and Finance.
He is also an Associate Professor of Law at Duke Law School. His research focuses on corporate governance, securities, and markets more broadly.
Previously, Bobby was a Fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Law Center for Law and Business, and a Senior Fellow at the NYU School of Law Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance.
Bishop brings a distinguished record of public service. Most recently, he was the senior advisor on financial markets at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he played an integral role on economic relief efforts. Before his doctoral studies, he was counsel to a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to graduate school, he served in the Middle East with the U.S. Department of Defense.
EDUCATION
Yale School of Management, Ph.D., 2021; M.A., M.Phil., 2020
Columbia Law School, J.D., 2017
Columbia Business School, M.B.A., 2017
University of Chicago, A.B., 2011
CLERKSHIP
Delaware Court of Chancery, Law Clerk, Hon. Tamika Montgomery-Reeves, 2017-2018
PUBLICATIONS
Activist Directors and Agency Costs: What Happens When an Activist Director Goes on the Board? 104 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 381 (2019) (with John C. Coffee, Jr., Robert J. Jackson, Jr. and Joshua R. Mitts)
