Yesha Yadav

Professor of Law Vanderbilt University

  • Nashville TN

Expert in financial market regulation, securities regulation and corporate bankruptcy, focusing on market structure and digital assets.

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Biography

Yesha Yadav's research interests lie in financial market regulation, securities regulation and corporate bankruptcy, focusing on market structure, exchange design, payments, digital asset regulation, distressed debt and restructuring. She has developed particular specialization in market microstructure, examining the regulation of trading ecosystems for various asset classes, notably, equity, U.S. Treasuries, corporate bonds and cryptocurrencies.

Before joining Vanderbilt's Law faculty in 2011, Professor Yadav worked as a legal counsel with the World Bank in its finance, private-sector development and infrastructure unit, where she specialized in financial regulation and insolvency, and creditor-debtor rights. Before joining the World Bank in 2009, she practiced from 2004-08 in the London and Paris offices of Clifford Chance in the firm's financial regulation and derivatives group. As part of her work in the area of payments regulation, she advised the European Payments Council on the establishment of the Single Euro Payments Area.

Since joining Vanderbilt, Professor Yadav has served as honorary advisor to India’s Financial Services Law Reform Commission and on the Atlantic Council’s Task Force on Divergence, Transatlantic Financial Reform and G-20 Agenda. She has served as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee, where she sat on the Distributed Ledger Technology and Algorithmic Trading Subcommittees. Professor Yadav is also a member of Nasdaq’s Hearing Panel, and the current Vice-Chair of the Tennessee State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Professor Yadav earned an M.A. in Law and Modern Languages (First Class) at the University of Cambridge, after which she earned an LL.M. at Harvard Law School. She was a Vanderbilt University Chancellor Faculty Fellow for 2019-21. In 2022, she won Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor Research Award for her research into U.S. Treasury market regulation. She was honored in 2020 as a second-time winner of the student-selected Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award for excellence in teaching.

Areas of Expertise

U.S. Treasury
Digital Asset Regulation
Market Structures
Securities Regulation
Financial Market Regulation
Corporate Bankruptcy
Exchange Design
Cryptocurrency

Education

Harvard Law School

LL.M.

Law

University of Cambridge

M.A.

Law and Modern Languages

Selected Media Appearances

Signature Bank’s collapse spells trouble for cryptocurrency industry

The Washington Post  online

2023-03-13

“It’s very dark days at present for crypto,” said Yesha Yadav, who studies digital financial regulation and is an associate dean at Vanderbilt University Law School. “The big danger here is that the folks decide to go offshore … [where] regulators are having a much harder time monitoring.”

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Why did Silicon Valley Bank collapse?

ABC Australia  radio

2023-03-12

The last time an American bank collapsed, it nearly took the financial system with it.

So it's understandable that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which provided finance to US and international tech start ups, has sent shudders through the banking sector.

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Yesha Yadav of Vanderbilt Law School discusses her testimony on Capitol Hill and digital asset regulation

CNBC  tv

2023-02-24

On today’s show, Professor Yesha Yadav of Vanderbilt University Law School discusses last week’s hearing on Capitol Hill regarding why financial system safeguards are needed for digital assets.

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