Tuesday, January 28, 2025

The Faculty of Law welcomes two new faculty members, who have joined our Faculty effective January 1, 2025:

Professor Simone Sepe, The Hon. Justice Frank Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation 

Professor Sepe

Professor Simone Sepe joins us as the next Honourable Justice Frank Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation and holds a non-budgetary cross-appointment at the Rotman School of Management. His expertise includes business organizations, corporate finance, contract theory, law and economics, empirical methods, and law and philosophy. Professor Sepe holds doctoral degrees in law from Yale Law School and in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics. He has taught inter alia at the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Arizona, where he held the Chester H. Smith Professorship of Law and Finance. He is a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. Additionally, he is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel. Before his academic career, Professor Sepe practiced banking law and structured finance at Clifford Chance in London and worked as an investment banker at Fortress Investment Group in London and New York. During his first term with us, Professor Sepe will be teaching Business Organizations.

Assistant Professor Robin Morgan

Professor Morgan

Robin Morgan joins us as an Assistant Professor. He holds a JD and BCL from McGill University and an LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow of Law and Economics. Professor Morgan’s research focuses on tax law, public economics and finance.  Prior to joining us, he practiced tax law at a major international law firm in New York. During the Winter term, Professor Morgan will be teaching Corporate Income Tax and the Tax Law and Policy Workshop.