Roberto Tallarita

Roberto Tallarita is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School. He previously served as a Lecturer on Law,  the Associate Director of the Program on Corporate Governance, and Terence M. Considine Senior Fellow in Law and Economics. He teaches and writes on corporate law and governance, and on the political and moral dimensions of markets and corporations.

His academic papers appear or are forthcoming in the Business Lawyer, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Business Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Journal of Corporation Law, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Analysis, Southern California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation. He has also published articles for a broader audience in The Atlantic, the Boston Review, and the Harvard Business Review. His research has been featured, among other places, in Bloomberg Opinion, the Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Prior to joining Harvard, Professor Tallarita spent more than a decade in private practice, working on transnational corporate deals at leading law firms in Europe and the United States, including as an associate in the corporate and M&A group of Kirkland & Ellis in New York, and as a partner at a leading Italian law firm.

Professor Tallarita has a law degree from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and a doctorate (SJD) from Harvard Law School.