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Tamara Belinfanti is an expert in business law. Her scholarship focuses on corporate governance system design and the nature of corporations. Her article, "Contested Visions: The Value of Systems Theory for Corporate Law," was selected by scholars in the business law field as one of the Top Ten Best Corporate and Securities Articles in 2018 (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, co-authored with Lynn Stout). In 2013, Professor Belinfanti was named an Aspen Ideas Scholar for her work on the roles and rights of corporations in the broader societal sphere. She has written on corporate governance in the context of the proxy advisory industry, corporate purpose, executive compensation, and, most recently, shareholder rights and stewardship. She is frequently invited as an expert to present her work at both academic and industry conferences. Professor Belinfanti teaches Corporations, Contracts, Corporate Practice, and Finding Your Purpose (a course that she developed).

In 2019, she co-authored the book Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All, which offers a proposal for providing American citizens with a guaranteed minimum income and more influence in the economy through tools of capitalism rather than a new government program or an increase in taxes.

Prior to joining the New York Law School faculty, she was a corporate attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where she counseled domestic and international clients on general corporate and U.S. securities regulation matters, and was co-editor of the securities law treatise, U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Market.

She is a Member of the Advisory Board of the BNY Mellon Family of Funds, and a Board Trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and Saint Ann’s School. She has served on various professional committees, including the New York City Bar Securities Regulation Committee.