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Professor

G. Mitu Gulati

University of Virginia School of Law
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Law
Elected
2024

Mitu Gulati is the Perre Bowen Professor of Law and the John V. Ray Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. His work focuses on sovereign debt restructuring and contracts, and explores how to help countries in financial distress. He was previously on the faculties of Duke Law School, UCLA Law School, and the Georgetown University Law Center.

In addition to advising national governments, he frequently volunteers his time to international governing bodies on matters relating to the global sovereign debt market and how to stabilize the financial markets of countries in crisis.

Gulati has written more than 200 scholarly articles and has edited or authored 10 books, including, most recently, European Financial Infrastructure in the Face of New Challenges and Judges on Judicial Institutions and Behavior. Gulati has also written on topics as wide-ranging as commercial boilerplate, issues in mergers and acquisitions contracts, municipal debt, judges and how they judge, the Supreme Court and the impact of the COVID pandemic on the global financial system. Gulati engages with the public as the host of the “Clauses & Controversies” podcast, a contributor to the Creditslips.org blog, and a frequent writer for media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Financial Times and The Washington Post.

Gulati is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Yale University, and Harvard Law School.

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