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Amanda M. Rose

Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair
Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management

Amanda Rose is an expert on corporate and securities law and the institutional design of enforcement regimes. After graduating first in her law school class at the University of California at Berkeley, Professor Rose was a law clerk for Judge William Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She then served as a litigation associate with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in San Francisco for five years, where her practice included the defense of state regulatory proceedings, SEC enforcement actions, and state and federal class action and derivative litigation. She also played an integral role in briefing appeals before numerous state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. During 2006-07, she was a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, and taught securities regulation as a lecturer.

Rose joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2008 and was appointed to a Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in 2022. She was a Roger J. Traynor Summer Professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2011. Her articles have been published in the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review and Minnesota Law Review, among other top journals, and her essays appear in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (2018) and The Research Handbook on Shareholder Litigation (Elgar, 2017). She has presented her work at venues around the globe. She is a member of the State Bar of California and admitted to practice before the Supreme Court; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits; and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Research Interests

Corporate and securities law, complex litigation, federalism, institutional design


Representative Publications

  • "Classaction.gov," 88 University of Chicago Law Review 487 (2021)
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  • "A Response to Calls for SEC-Mandated ESG Disclosure," 98 Washington University Law Review 1819 (2021)
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  • "Cutting Class Action Agency Costs: Lessons from the Public Company," 54 University of California Davis Law Review 337 (2020)
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  •  "Calculating SEC Whistleblower Awards: A Theoretical Approach," 72 Vanderbilt Law Review 2047 (2019)
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  • "The 'Reasonable Investor' of Federal Securities Law: Insights from Tort Law's 'Reasonable Person' and Suggested Reforms," 43 Journal of Corporation Law 101 (2017)
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  • "Better Bounty Hunting: How the SEC's New Whistleblower Program Changes the Securities Fraud Class Action Debate," 108 Northwestern University Law Review 1235 (2014)
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  • "State Enforcement of National Policy: A Contextual Approach (with Evidence from the Securities Realm)," 97 Minnesota Law Review 1343 (2013)
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  • “The Multi-Enforcer Approach To Securities Fraud Deterrence: A Critical Analysis,” 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2173 (2010)
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  • "The Regulation Of Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Virtues Of Going Slow," 76 University of Chicago Law Review 111 (2009) (with Richard A. Epstein)
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  • "Reforming Securities Litigation Reform: Restructuring The Relationship between Public and Private Enforcement of Rule 10b-5," 108 Columbia Law Review 1301 (2008). Reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator (2008) and Securities Law Review (2009)
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