Kevin Haeberle
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Kevin Haeberle
Professor of Law
Expertise:
Corporate law and securities law (including focuses on financial-instrument trading markets, broker-dealers, exchanges, insider trading, investment companies, and ETFs as well as their regulation)
Background:
Professor Haeberle's research has centered on the stock market and other secondary markets for financial instruments. His scholarly work has been selected for republication in the Securities Law Review (2017, 2020, and 2025) and for presentation at a number of events, including the Columbia Business Law Review Symposium on the Future of Securities Regulation, the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, the Federalist Society Junior Faculty Forum, and the George Washington University Center for Law, Economics, and Finance Junior Faculty Workshop. From 2017 to 2023, he was a Fellow with the William & Mary Law School Center for the Study of Law and Markets. In 2022, he was named a Program Fellow with the Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets.
Professor Haeberle has been retained as an expert consulting and testifying witness by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as well as by the Office of the Federal Public Defender. He has also provided subject-matter expertise to the New York State Attorney General's Office (Investor Protection Bureau), attorneys submitting an amicus brief in support of SEC action, and attorneys litigating private causes of action under federal and state corporate and securities laws (including California corporate and securities law). Additionally, he provided a series of lectures to the legal staff of the Brazilian securities and exchange commission on the mechanics, economics, and regulation of secondary markets for financial instruments. He has also contributed as a peer reviewer for book and article publications for Oxford University Press.
His work and views on a number of corporate and securities matters have been featured on NPR, the New York Times, Wired, Financial Times, Forbes, The Hill, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Industry Group, CoinDesk, Time Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.
Professor Haeberle has presented his scholarly work at the SEC. He has also filed public comment letters with the SEC regarding actively managed ETFs and with the CFTC on aspects of the digital-asset market structure that have the potential to enhance trading in more traditional secondary markets for financial instruments.
Before joining the faculty at UC Irvine School of Law, Professor Haeberle was a Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School (2017 – 2023) and an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law (2014 – 2017). Prior to that, he held a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School in their joint Program on the Law and Economics of Capital Markets, where he conducted research on securities law and served as a Visiting Lecturer for the joint law school and business school Capital Markets Regulation class. Before entering the legal academy, Professor Haeberle practiced law (with a focus on securities litigation) in New York and served a law clerk for Judge Victor Marrero of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and as a foreign law clerk for Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel.
, Corporate Finance; Capital Markets Regulation
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Recent Publications
Securities Regulation’s Liquidity Rationale
48 Cardozo L. Rev.
__ (
forthcoming 2027)
Reforming Securities Litigation & Enforcement for ESG Disclosure
43.3 Rev. of Lit. 339
(2024) (University of Texas
Review of Litigation
ESG & Litigation symposium issue)
Fraud-on-the-Market Liability in the ESG Era
, 98
Tulane L. Rev.
641 (2024)
(selected for republication in the
2025
Securities Law Review
The Emergence of the Actively Managed ETF
, 2021
Colum. Bus. L. Rev.
1321 (2022) (
Columbia Business Law Review
’s Future of Securities Regulation symposium edition)
Marginal Benefits of the Core Securities Laws
, 7
J. Fin. Regul.
254 (2021)
Information Asymmetry and the Protection of Ordinary Investors
, 53
UC Davis L. Rev.
145 (2019) (reprinted in the 2020
Securities Law Review
; selected for presentation at the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum as well as for presentation at the Federalist Society Junior Scholars Colloquium)
A New Market-Based Approach to Securities Law
(with M. Todd Henderson), 85
U. Chi. L. Rev.
1313 (2018)
Making a Market for Corporate Disclosure
(with M. Todd Henderson), 35
Yale J. Reg.
383 (2018)
Evaluating Stock-Trading Practices and Their Regulation
(with Merritt B. Fox), 42
J. Corp. L.
887 (2017)
Discrimination Platforms
, 42
J. Corp. L.
809 (2017)
Information-Dissemination Law: The Regulation of How Market-Moving Information Is Revealed
(with M. Todd Henderson), 101
Cornell L. Rev.
1373 (2016)
Stock-Market Law and the Accuracy of Public Companies’ Stock Prices
, 2015
Colum. Bus. L. Rev.
121 (2015) (reprinted in the 2017
Securities Law Review
; selected for presentation at the
GW
Center for Law, Economics, and Finance Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop)
Recent and Upcoming Events
February 2026
BYU Winter Deals Conference (presented
Securities Regulation’s Liquidity Rationale
November 2025
Discussant with The Federalist Society in conversation with Adam Pritchard of Michigan Law about his book, “A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court” (Oxford University Press 2023)
July 2025
National Business Law Scholars Conference, UCLA (presented on Plenary Session Panel on
The Future of Securities Law
, discussing contemplated changes to broker-dealer and exchange regulation—including those specific to Finra and retail-level private-equity investments; also presented on a panel on
Rethinking Securities Regulation
(presented draft on
Securities Regulation’s Liquidity Rationale
))
June 2025
George Washington Law Summer Faculty Workshop (presented Securities Regulation’s Liquidity Rationale)
April 2025
Roundtable on Asset Management and Private Assets, Columbia University (
invited participant
Hosted Prof. Merritt Fox of Columbia Law School as a guest speaker in Broker-Dealer & Exchange Regulation course.
March 2025
UCLA Business Law Workshop (presented
Securities Regulation’s Liquidity Rationale
January 2025
26
th
Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference (presented
Securities Regulation’s Liquidity Rationale
September 2024
Eleventh Annual Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop (presented
Reforming Securities Litigation & Enforcement for ESG Disclosure
June 2024
2024 National Business Law Scholars Conference (presented
Reforming Securities Litigation & Enforcement for ESG Disclosure
February 2024
The Review of Litigation (University of Texas) 2024 Symposium on ESG & Litigation (presented
Reforming Securities Litigation & Enforcement for ESG Disclosure
Recent Honors
Prof. Kevin Haeberle’s article “Fraud-on-the-Market Liability in the ESG Era” was selected for republication in the 2025 edition of the Securities Law Review as one of the top 10 law review articles of the year in the securities area.
In the Media
Milwaukee Business Journal: Court Moves to Add More Fiserv Suits to Class Action*
Bloomberg: Musk Is on Trial Over His Tweets Ahead of Twitter Purchase*
Columbia Law School Blog: Securities Regulation’s Liquidity Rationale
UC Irvine Law Rings in 2026 with National Leadership Roles in Law, Policy and Academia
Faculty Roundup | June 2025
Faculty Roundup | March 2025
UC Irvine Law Professor Kevin Haeberle Honored with Top 10 Securities Law Article for 2024
UC Irvine Law Rings in 2025 with National Leadership Roles in Law, Policy and Academia
MSN: Who’s Afraid of Gary Gensler? Not Don Wilson, the Trader Who Beat the Regulator Once Before
Columbia Law School Blog: The Emergence of the Actively Managed ETF
Law360: SEC Silence On Grayscale Win Hints At Bitcoin ETF Approvals
Contact Information
401 E. Peltason Drive
Law 4800-R
Irvine, CA 92697-8000
(949) 824-2793
khaeberle@law.uci.edu
Faculty Support
Saraí Mesa
smesa@law.uci.edu
Related Links
Professor Haeberle’s Scholarship on SSRN
Curriculum Vitae
Kevin Haeberle's CV
Education
Columbia Law School, Juris Doctor
Georgetown University, College of Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Arts