Michael A. Perino is the Dean George W. Matheson Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law. His primary areas of scholarly interest are securities regulation and litigation, corporations, and complex litigation. 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 has authored numerous articles on securities regulation, securities fraud, and class action litigation. Congress relied on the empirical findings of his article Fraud and Federalism: Preempting Private State Securities Fraud Causes of Action, 50 Stanford Law Review 273 (1998), in enacting the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998. He is the author of the leading treatise on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Securities Litigation After the Reform Act (CCH 2000). 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. 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.
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.