Christina Sautter is the Associate Dean for Research and a Professor of Law. Her research focuses on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and the role of technology in investing. Currently, she investigates how markets, individual retail investors, and corporations interact with one another. Her work examines how emerging retail investor demographics are reshaping corporate governance practices, with particular attention to the influence of digital platforms, online communication channels, and the distinct characteristics and preferences of younger investor generations. She is the Co-Founder, Secretary, and member of the Board of Directors of the registered non-profit, the Center for Retail Investors & Corporate Inclusion (the RICI Center), which is awaiting 501(c)(3) status. The RICI Center is focused on facilitating financial and corporate governance literacy education as well as research on retail investors.

Professor Sautter also has extensively written on M&A. Her M&A scholarship centers on the sale process of publicly traded companies and the intersection of fiduciary duties and deal terms. She co-authored “Mergers and Acquisitions Law,” a hornbook published by West Academic Publishing.

She has authored articles appearing or forthcoming in Boston University Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Florida Law Review, The Journal of Corporation Law, and other leading journals. Her scholarship has been featured in and she has been quoted by various media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, USA Today, Yahoo!Finance, Forbes, Fortune, FoxBusiness, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Tax, and NPR Marketplace.

Prior to joining the 色花堂_色花堂 98堂 faculty, Professor Sautter was a member of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center faculty from 2008 to 2023 where she held the Cynthia Felder Fayard Professorship, the Byron R. Kantrow Professorship, and the Vinson & Elkins Professorship. Professor Sautter practiced in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group in the New York City offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP (now A&O Shearman), where she represented companies from a variety of industries in multi-million- and billion-dollar multinational M&A deals on both the sell side and buy side. She also provided on-going corporate governance advice to boards of directors. She clerked for the late Honorable H. Emory Widener, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She also served as a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

Professor Sautter earned her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law, graduating summa cum laude. While in law school, Professor Sautter was a managing editor of the Villanova Law Review and was selected as a member of The Order of the Coif. She received her bachelor’s degree in both Multinational Business Operations and Marketing from Florida State University, graduating summa cum laude.