Amanda Rose is an expert on corporate and securities law and the institutional design of enforcement regimes. After graduating first in her law school class at the University of California at Berkeley, Professor Rose was a law clerk for Judge William Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She then served as a litigation associate with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in San Francisco for five years, where her practice included the defense of state regulatory proceedings, SEC enforcement actions, and state and federal class action and derivative litigation. She also played an integral role in briefing appeals before numerous state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.
During 2006-07, she was a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, and taught securities regulation as a lecturer.
Rose joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2008 and was appointed to a Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in 2022. She was a Roger J. Traynor Summer Professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2011. Her articles have been published in the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review and Minnesota Law Review, among other top journals, and her essays appear in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (2018) and The Research Handbook on Shareholder Litigation (Elgar, 2017). She has presented her work at venues around the globe. She is a member of the State Bar of California and admitted to practice before the Supreme Court; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits; and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.