Financial Institutions and RegulationsCornell

Certificate Program

Dan Awrey joined Cornell Law School as a Professor of Law in July 2019. His teaching and research interests reside in the area of financial regulation and, more specifically, the regulation of banks, investment funds, derivatives markets, and financial market infrastructure. Professor Awrey has undertaken research and provided advice at the request of organizations that include the Bank for International Settlements, HM Treasury, U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, Commonwealth Secretariat, and European Securities and Markets Authority. He is also a founding co-managing editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, published by Oxford University Press.

Before entering academia, Professor Awrey served as legal counsel to a global investment management firm and, prior to that, as an associate practicing corporate finance and securities lawyer with a major Canadian law firm.

Saule Omarova specializes in the regulation of financial institutions, banking law, international finance, and corporate finance. Before joining Cornell Law School in 2014, she was the George R. Ward Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Prior to joining academia, Professor Omarova practiced law in the Financial Institutions Group of Davis Polk & Wardwell, a premier New York law firm, where she specialized in a wide variety of corporate transactions and advisory work in the area of financial regulation. In 2006-2007, Professor Omarova served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy to the Undersecretary for Domestic Finance.