Presenter

Roberta Karmel

Centennial Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Professor Karmel’s area of expertise is international and domestic securities regulation. She is widely called upon to teach and lecture all over the world on this subject. She is a former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a former Public Director of the New York Stock Exchange, and was in private practice for 30 years. She was also a Fulbright Scholar studying the harmonization of the securities laws in the European Union. Professor Karmel is the author of Regulation by Prosecution: The Securities and Exchange Commission Versus Corporate America, and has widely published articles on securities regulation and international securities law in dozens of law reviews and journals. She also authors a monthly column, “Securities Regulation,” that appears in the New York Law Journal.Professor Karmel’s professional activities and affiliations are numerous. She is a trustee of the Practising Law Institute, a member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She also serves on the ABA’s Presidential Task Force on Financial Markets Regulatory Reform. She previously served as a director of the New York Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors and was the Vice-Chair of the International Coordinating Committee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.A member of the faculty since 1985, Professor Karmel has played an instrumental role in leading the activities of The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law, where she serves as its co-director. In 2009, she was the Harry Cross Visiting Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. Other recent honors include, Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Iota of Massachusetts at Harvard College (Hon.) and the American Bar Association Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College and LL.B. from New York University School of Law.

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