Reilly S. Steel
Associate Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2025
M.A., Princeton University, 2023
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2017
B.A., Middlebury College, 2011
Reilly S. Steel
Associate Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
I am a legal scholar and political scientist who studies the intersection of business, law, and politics.
My research uses tools from the social sciences to understand the strategic interactions between economic, legal, and political actors, engaging with a range of legal fields including corporate law, financial regulation, and administrative law. It has been published or is forthcoming in both law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the American Political Science Review; Columbia Law Review; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Journal of Politics; and Yale Law Journal.
Before entering academia, I was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, a law clerk to Chief Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr. at the Delaware Supreme Court, and the inaugural Millstein Public Service Fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.