Yesha Yadav is Professor of Law, Milton R. Underwood Chair and Associate Dean at Vanderbilt Law School. Her research interests focus on market structure, exchange design, payments, digital asset regulation, distressed debt and restructuring. She has developed particular specialization in market microstructure, examining the regulation of trading ecosystems for various asset classes, notably, equity, U.S. Treasuries, corporate bonds and cryptocurrencies. Her work in digital asset markets covers the regulation of crypto-exchanges, stablecoins, CBDCs and issues in crypto-insolvency.

Since joining Vanderbilt, Professor Yadav has served as honorary advisor to India’s Financial Services Law Reform Commission and on the Atlantic Council’s Task Force on Divergence, Transatlantic Financial Reform and G-20 Agenda. She has served as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee, where she sat on the Distributed Ledger Technology and Algorithmic Trading Subcommittees. Professor Yadav is a member of Nasdaq’s Hearing Panel, and Vice-Chair of the Tennessee State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.