Andrew Luis Granato
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
I am an Assistant Professor at Texas Law. I am a legal economist and my principal fields are tax, business and securities law, corporate finance, and insurance.
My main research interest is on how seemingly technical choices that legal actors make when incorporating financial economics can shroud material consequences. One line of this work is a series on the use of life insurance as a mechanism for projects like high-net-worth tax planning or private-equity financing. My research has been cited in litigation by the Department of Justice Tax Division; in academic outlets like CLS Blue Sky Blog, Duke FinReg Blog, and JOTWELL; and in media like Odd Lots (Bloomberg), The New York Times, and Tax Notes.
I hold a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the Yale School of Management, and a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University. Prior to graduate school, I worked as a Senior Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.