Reilly Steel

Reilly S. Steel is a legal scholar and political scientist currently serving as an Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School.12 She is also a Postgraduate Research Fellow at Columbia's Millstein Center and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Princeton University.2

Education and Career

Steel's educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University (in progress)1
• M.A. in Politics from Princeton University (2023)1
• J.D. from Columbia Law School (2017)1
• B.A. in Philosophy & Theatre from Middlebury College (2011)1

Prior to her current academic roles, Steel's professional experience included:

• Associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP2
• Law clerk to Chief Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr. at the Delaware Supreme Court2
• Inaugural Millstein Public Service Fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs23

Research and Expertise

Steel's research focuses on the intersection of business, law, and politics, using tools from social sciences to study strategic interactions between economic, legal, and political actors in private and public institutions.2 Her areas of expertise include:

• Corporations
• Securities Regulation
• Financial Institutions
• Law and Politics
• Legislation and Regulation
• Quantitative Methods
• Formal Theory1

Her work has been published or is forthcoming in several prestigious journals, including the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Yale Law Journal, and Columbia Law Review.2