Affiliated Faculty
 

Ronald H. Filler is the Director of the Center on Financial Services Law and a Professor of Law at New York Law School. He teaches a wide range of courses including Derivatives Market Regulation, Special Topics in Corporate Law: Financial Services Seminar and Workshop, and Special Topics in Corporate Law: Regulation of Brokers/Dealers and Futures Commissions Merchants. Professor Filler is the former Managing Director in the Capital Markets Prime Services Division at Lehman Brothers. He has served on numerous industry boards and advisory committees during his career and, most recently, as a member of the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee, the CME Clearing House Risk Operating Committee, The Clearing Corporation Board of Directors, and the FIA Law and Compliance Division Executive Committee. Professor Filler has spoken at hundreds of industry conferences and seminars during his more than 30 years in the futures and derivatives legal fields and has taught several different courses at four U.S. law schools as an adjunct professor of law. He founded the Commodities Law Institute at Chicago Kent College of Law in 1978 which became the futures industry's leading academic law program through 1995. Professor Filler's full profile is available here.

Houman B. Shadab is an Associate Director of the Center on Financial Services Law and an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is an internationally recognized expert in financial law and regulation and is the author of several academic articles on hedge funds and derivatives. Professor Shadab teaches Contracts, Corporations, and a seminar on financial regulatory policy. Professor Shadab has testified before Congress on the role of hedge funds in the financial crisis and also on the compensation of public company executives. He is frequently asked to contribute to authoritative works and is currently writing chapters for forthcoming books to be published by Oxford University Press and John Wiley & Sons. Governmental bodies have recognized Professor Shadab's research, which has been cited by the Delaware Court of Chancery and in studies published by the U.K. House of Commons and the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Professor Shadab has been quoted in numerous media publications including the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Washington Post. Professor Shadab's full profile is available here.
 

David L. Glass is an Associate Director of the Center on Financial Services Law and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School. He teaches banking, international banking, payment systems, and administrative law. Professor Glass serves as Head of Risk Management Group Legal Affairs for the Americas for the Macquarie Group, a diversified financial services company based in Sydney, Australia. Prior to joining Macquarie, Professor Glass was in law practice with Clifford Chance US LLP and was General Counsel of the New York Bankers Association. He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where at various times he served as a staff attorney, Chief of the Credit Analysis Division, and Assistant to the President. Professor Glass served as Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Business Law Section in 2007, and is a past Chair of the Association’s Banking Law Committee and current Editor-in-Chief of its Business Law Journal, and has published and spoken extensively on banking and related topics.