Michael Perino is currently the Dean George W. Matheson
Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law in New
York. Professor Perino’s primary areas of scholarly interest
are securities regulation and litigation, corporations, class
actions, and judicial decision making. Professor Perino has
also been a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School (2005), the
Justin W. D’Atri Visiting Professor of Law, Business and Society at
Columbia Law School (2002), and a Lecturer and Co-Director of the
Roberts Program in Law, Business, and Corporate Governance at
Stanford Law School (1995-1998).
Professor Perino is the author of The Hellhound of Wall Street:
How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever
Changed American Finance (Penguin Press 2010). Spear’s
Magazine awarded Hellhound the Citi Private Bank Financial
History of the Year prize, and the book was named as one of the
best business books of 2010 by Bloomberg/Business Week and
the Library Journal. He is the author of the leading
treatise on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act,
Securities Litigation under the PSLRA (CCH 2000), as well
as numerous articles and monographs on securities regulation,
securities fraud, and class action litigation. He has testified in
both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives and
is frequently quoted in the media on securities and corporate
matters. Professor Perino’s comments have appeared and his research
has been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall
Street Journal, the Economist, Business
Week, the Financial Times, Forbes,
Fortune, the Washington Post,the Los Angeles
Times,and many others. Professor Perino has also appeared on
This American Life, All Things Considered, Morning
Edition, Marketplace, Bill Moyers
Journal,and on the BBC, Bloomberg Television, and CNBC.
The SEC has retained Professor Perino to provide it with a report and
recommendations on the adequacy of arbitrator conflict
disclosure requirements in securities arbitration. Professor
Perino was also one of the principal developers of Stanford Law School’s
Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, which was nominated by
the Smithsonian Institution for the 1997 Computerworld-Smithsonian
Award as one of the five most important applications of information
technology created by an educational institution. In 2008, he
received the U.S Chamber of Commerce’s award for outstanding
research on legal reform issues.
Professor Perino received his LL.M. degree from Columbia Law
School, where he was valedictorian, a James Kent Scholar, and the
recipient of the Walter Gellhorn Prize for outstanding proficiency
in legal studies. He received his J.D. from Boston College Law
School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif.