Andrew Luis Granato
Incoming Assistant Professor of Law
The University of Texas at Austin
I am a legal economist and, starting this summer, I will be an Assistant Professor at Texas Law. 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 logic from financial economics can shroud material consequences. One line of this interest is a series on the use of life insurance as a vehicle for high-net-worth tax avoidance. 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 legal media like Tax Notes, Bloomberg Law, and The American Lawyer.
I hold a J.D. from Yale Law School, Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the Yale School of Management, and 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.