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Dr Suren Gomtsyan

Assistant Professor
LSE Law School

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Suren joined LSE Law School in September 2023. His research and teaching focuses on corporate law, corporate governance, and private ordering.

Prior to joining LSE, Suren was lecturer and associate professor at the University of Leeds School of Law (2016-2023), visiting research fellow at Fordham University School of Law in New York (2014), and worked in legal practice with focus on corporate law matters and M&A transactions (2011-2012). He holds a PhD in law (2016) and an LLM Research Master in Law (2012, cum laude) from Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Suren is Research Associate at the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE), where he was a visiting scholar in 2022, and Extramural Fellow at Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University. He received several prizes and grants, including the "Research Talent" Grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2013-2016), "Brenno Galli" Award for the most promising young scholar's paper at the annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (2016), Prize for the best paper of a young scholar at the annual conference of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (2015), and Young Scholar's Prize at the International Law and Economics Conference at Bilkent University (2015). His research on shareholder engagement by large institutional investors was short-listed for the Society of Legal Scholars' 2018 Best Paper Prize.

Suren's research has been published or is forthcoming in various journals, including the Modern Law Review, Legal Studies, the Journal of Corporation Law, the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, the Yale Journal of International Law, the American Business Law Journal, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, and the Villanova Law Review, and has also been cited in the Financial Times, by the United States Court of Appeals (4th Circuit), and by the Delaware Court of Chancery.