Biography

Nicole G. Iannarone’s scholarship focuses on Main Street investors. She studies regular investors’ disputes with professional services providers, exploring the intersection between professional regulation, dispute resolution systems, transparency, and technology. Her work has uncovered barriers that investors face in entrenched mandatory arbitration forums and recommends interventions to increase consumer investors’ access to justice.

Professor Iannarone’s investor justice scholarship has appeared in or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Washington Law Review, and Cardozo Law Review, as well as other leading law journals. She is frequently asked to share her expertise with regulatory and policy making bodies and has often testified before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the International Association of Securities Commissioners (IOSCO) on issues related to retail investor protection. In 2024, she presented the keynote lecture at the SEC’s Securities Arbitration Clinic summit.

Her teaching includes courses in Civil Procedure, Business Organizations, Securities Regulation, Investor Protection, Business Arbitration, and Professional Responsibility, subject areas directly related to her scholarship and extensive practice background.

Professor Iannarone is involved in national-level engagement in communities related to her scholarly focus. She is the immediate past Chair of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) National Arbitration and Mediation Committee (NAMC), the advisory group responsible for studying the FINRA mandatory securities dispute resolution forum and recommending changes to FINRA’s board of governors. She is a public member of the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board of Standards Public Policy Council. Professor Iannarone is active in the American Association of Law Schools, including by serving as incoming Chair of the Securities Regulation Section, a former chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Section, and current member of the board of the Business Associations Section and the provisional Race and Private Law Section.

Before entering academia, Professor Iannarone was a partner in a business litigation boutique. She is a former President of the Atlanta Bar Association and the Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers. She has chaired the State Bar of Georgia’s Professionalism Committee, Atlanta Bar Association’s Reputation and Public Trust Committee, and served as a liaison to the Georgia Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, among other leadership roles.

Professor Iannarone received her JD from Yale Law School where she served on the Yale Journal of Regulation and executive committee of the Latinx Law Students Association. She graduated summa cum laude and with high honors in liberal studies from Brenau Women’s College.