Vice Dean and Professor of Law
Yuliya Guseva
Rutgers Law School
426
S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
973-353-2583

Yuliya Guseva’s research and teaching interests are capital markets, securities law, law and economics, financial regulation, regulation of cryptoassets, and cross-border transplantation of business law.

  • Biography
  • Publications
  • Courses Taught
  • Expertise
Biography

Professor Yuliya Guseva is the Head of the Fintech and Blockchain Research Program of the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance. Her research and teaching interests are capital markets, securities law, law and economics, financial regulation, fintech, international business law, and regulation of cryptoassets.

Professor Guseva’s scholarship includes articles and essays published or forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review, Boston College Law Review (twice), Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy (lead article, peer-reviewed), Journal of Corporation Law, Southern California Law Review Postscript, Maryland Law Review, Columbia Business Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and Oxford University Press, among others. Her recent articles were selected for republication in the Securities Law Review.

Professor Guseva joined Professor Carol Goforth in coauthoring the second edition of Regulation of Cryptoassets, a textbook which was published by West Academic in May 2022. Guseva's work has been selected for presentation at the annual meetings of the American Law and Economics Association, the European Association of Law and Economics, the DC Fintech Week, and other prestigious venues. Her recent article was featured as one of the winning papers at the DC Fintech Week 2022.

Professor Guseva has taught a broad range of courses, including Securities and Capital Market Regulation, Financial Regulation and Innovation, Regulation of Cryptoassets, Corporate Finance, Transactions, Transactional Competition, Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, International Business Transactions, and Commercial Law. In the fall of 2015, Guseva was a Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School. Guseva has replicated Cornell’s Transactional Lawyering Competition at Rutgers Law. In the spring of 2021, Professor Guseva joined the Department of Legal Studies of the Central European University in Vienna, Austria, as a Visiting Professor.

Prior to her appointment at Rutgers, Professor Guseva was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fordham Law School, where she taught Commercial Law and International Business Transactions, postdoctoral research fellow in the Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia Law School, and Kauffman Legal Research Fellow at Columbia Law School. Professor Guseva holds an S.J.D. from Central European University (summa cum laude) and an LL.M. from Columbia University, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

 

Publications

Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters

"Empowering Courts and the Private Attorney General: Blockchains and Dynamic Financial Markets," 92 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023).

Digital Asset Innovations and Regulatory Fragmentation: The SEC versus the CFTC” (with Irena Hutton), __B.C. Law Rev.­­__ ( forthcoming 2023) (selected as a winning paper at the DC Fintech Week 2022, competitively selected for presentation at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics and the AALS Annual Meeting 2023 (Session "Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services"))

When the Means Undermine the End: The Leviathan of Securities Law and Enforcement in Digital-Asset Markets,” 5 The Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy 1 (2022) (lead article, peer-reviewed) (competitively selected for presentation at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics and the DC Fintech Week 2020)

"The SEC, Digital Assets, and Game Theory," 46 J. of Corp. Law 629 (2021) (selected for republication in 2022 Securities Law Review, competitively selected for presentation at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics)

Crypto-Enforcement Around the World” (with Douglas Eakeley), 94 South. Calif. Law Rev. Postscript 99 (2021)

"A Conceptual Framework for Digital-Asset Securities: Tokens and Coins as Debt and Equity," 80 Md. Law Rev. 166 (2020)

“The SEC and Foreign Private Issuers: A Path to Optimal Public Enforcement,” 59 B.C. Law Rev. 2055 (2018) (reprinted in 2019 Securities Law Review; competitively selected for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, the AALS Annual Meeting Session “Emerging Voices in Securities Regulation” and Session “Crossing Borders,” and the Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics).

"Extraterritoriality of Securities Law Redux: Private Litigation Five Years After Morrison v. National Australia Bank," 2017 Colum. Bus. Law Rev. 199 (selected for presentation at the 9th Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, ASIL Research Forum, and ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group).

"Destructive Collectivism: Dodd-Frank Coordination and Clearinghouses," 37 Cardozo Law Rev. 1693 (2016) (selected for presentation at the ASIL Research Forum and the International Symposium on Corporate Governance and Capital Markets).

Russian Capital Markets and Shareholder Litigation: Quo Vadis?” in Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement (Pierre-Henri Conac & Martin Gelter eds., Cambridge University Press 2019) (competitively selected for presentation at the Eleventh Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop).

“KGB’s Legacy: Transplanting Efficient Financial Infrastructure without Efficiency,” 36 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 525 (2015) (competitively selected for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Law and Economics; the Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics).

 “Cross-Listings and the New World of International Capital: Another Look at the Efficiency and Extraterritoriality of Securities Law,” 44 Geo. J. Int'l L. 411 (2013) (excerpted in J. Robert Brown, Jr., & Lisa L. Casey, Corporate Governance: Cases and Materials (2016)).    

 

Blogposts

"When the Means Undermine the Ends: The Leviathan of Securities Law and Enforcement in Digital-Asset Markets," Oxford Business Law Blog, October 21, 2021 (solicited contribution)

"The SEC, Digital Assets, and Game Theory," Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, August 27, 2021

Securities Regulation in Cryptoasset Markets: A Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog,  January 4, 2021, (solicited contribution featuring The Leviathan of Securities Regulation in Crypto).

Crypto-Enforcement Around the World,” Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, November 24, 2020.

“The SEC and Foreign Corporations: A Path to Optimal Public Enforcement,” The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation,  September 30, 2018.

Securities Litigation Against Foreign Private Issuers,” Oxford Business Law Blog, September 21, 2018 (the post is based on Extraterritoriality of Securities Law Redux: Private Litigation Five Years After Morrison v. National Australia Bank, 2017 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 199, and The SEC and Foreign Corporations: A Path to Optimal Public Enforcement, 59 B.C. Law Rev. 2055 (2018)).

"Destructive Collectivism: Dodd-Frank Coordination and Clearinghouses," The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, January 31, 2018

 

Courses Taught
  • ACCT+FINSTATANALYSIS
  • ACCT+FINSTATANALYSIS
  • Financial Regulation & Innovation
  • REG OF CRYPTOASSETS
  • Securities & Market Reg.
  • SECURITIES & MKT REG
Expertise
  • Comparative Law
  • Digital Platforms
  • Corporations
  • Economics (Law &)
  • International Business Transactions
  • International Finance
  • Securities Litigation
  • Securities Regulation