Jacob Hale Russell

Jacob Hale Russell is an expert on financial regulation. His work focuses on consumer and investor protection, the retirement and pension industry, and corporate governance. He teaches Business Organizations and Securities Regulation. He previously taught at Stanford Law School and joined Rutgers Law School in July 2016.

Professor Russell's research focuses on financial regulation and consumer protection. His scholarship includes work on the application of behavioral law and economics to consumer and investor protection; regulation of the retirement industry and pension plans; corporate governance of mutual funds and institutional investors; and the relationship between regulation and financial crises. Recent work has focused on topics including the role of corporate boards and directors in preventing cybersecurity breaches; the regulation of payday loans, including recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations of payday lenders; and efforts to improve retirement savings decisions. He is a faculty affiliate of the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance.

Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Russell was a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School, where he oversaw all aspects of advising, teaching, and admissions for the school's LL.M. program in corporate governance and practice. At Stanford, he taught the Corporate Governance Colloquium, a seminar on the economic analysis of corporate law, and Contracts for advanced-degree students. Previously, Professor Russell was academic fellow at Stanford's Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

Professor Russell received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, his master's degree in political science from M.I.T., and his bachelor's degree from Harvard. Prior to law school, he was a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal in New York. Following law school, he was an attorney in the financial services group at Goodwin Procter in Boston. He regularly consults on legal and business topics to start-ups in the media and technology industries. He is admitted to practice in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.