J.W. Verret

Biographical Sketch

Associate Professor J.W. Verret, joined the Antonin Scalia Law School faculty in 2008. He teaches Business Associations, Securities Regulation, and Accounting and Finance for Lawyers. He is the lead co-author of the seminal textbook Accounting for Lawyers (West Academic, 2025 and 2026 updates), which educates future attorneys across more than 120 law schools nationwide. In addition, he implemented the nation’s first artificial intelligence–based Scholarly Writing course, leveraging AI tools to elevate the rigor of student research. He previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and a Visiting Campbell Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Professor Verret’s scholarship foresaw the era of Robinhood and app-based trading dynamics in his 2016 Journal of Corporation Law article, Uber-ized Corporate Law. His scholarly impact is evidenced by over 11,000 downloads on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and more than 300 Westlaw citations. His recent scholarship in the Albany Law Review bridges securities law and accounting by mapping the Supreme Court’s Liu v. SEC precedent to forensic accounting methodologies and includes research published in the prestigious, peer-reviewed Journal of Law and Economics.

His recent scholarship further includes exploring the impact of proxy access on share value in small, publicly traded companies in the Stanford Law Review; a comprehensive framework for forensic accounting and economic damages estimation in Delaware litigation published in the William & Mary Business Law Review; an analysis of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s regulatory budget in the Georgia State University Law Review; and a critique of SEC crypto regulation using the Major Questions Doctrine in the William & Mary Business Law Review.

Professor Verret has published extensively on banking law, including proposals for privately enforceable statutory constraints on Federal Reserve emergency lending in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty and federalism-based reforms to facilitate fintech innovation in the Review of Banking and Financial Law. His influential work has also been featured in the Harvard Business Law Review.

In addition, Professor Verret has served on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, advising the Chairman and Commissioners on securities law and corporate governance. He has also served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, advising the Financial Accounting Standards Board on the development of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. He currently serves on the FINRA Investor Issues Committee, advising the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on critical matters of investor protection, and acts as the faculty liaison to the American College of Business Court Judges.

Professor Verret previously took academic leave to serve as Chief Economist and Senior Counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. During his tenure, he managed the Committee’s Federal Reserve Centennial Oversight Project and assisted with the oversight of securities law reforms within the USA JOBS Act. In this capacity, he led the preparation and execution of the Humphrey-Hawkins semi-annual monetary policy testimony of the Federal Reserve Chairman.

Professor Verret has testified before the United States Congress on twelve occasions. His extensive congressional testimony includes appearances before the Senate Banking Committee regarding corporate governance proposals that were eventually integrated into the Dodd-Frank Act, and before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs to discuss Wall Street fraud and fiduciary duties.

He has also provided expert testimony to the House Oversight Committee on the government’s role as a dominant shareholder in TARP, and before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs regarding SIPC clawback practices for massive Ponzi schemes. In the digital asset sector, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Zcash Foundation, focusing strictly on the non-profit’s mission of building financial privacy infrastructure for the public good.

Professor Verret is the principal of Veritas Financial Analytics, an exclusive boutique consulting firm where he brings academic expertise to high-stakes litigation, arbitration, and federal investigations. He is the only forensic accountant who is also a professor teaching the specific corporate and securities laws being litigated. He has provided expert-witness consulting services in several high-profile cases, including United States v. Sterlingov, a $300 million money-laundering trial in which Judge Moss designated him as an expert in “forensic accounting and financial forensics.” He has also served as a consulting expert in forensic accounting fraud for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, widely recognized as the premier financial prosecution district in the country.