Biography:
Prior to joining the Tulane law faculty in 2003, Professor Dombalagian served as an attorney fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and practiced in the field of broker-dealer and financial market regulation for five years as an associate in the Washington D.C. office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.  He was publishing editor of the Harvard Law Review while in law school and clerked for the Honorable J. Edward Lumbard on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upon graduation.  In 2007, he received the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award from the graduating class, and in 2009, he was named to the George Denègre Endowed Professorship.

Professor Dombalagian's research focuses on the domestic and international regulation of capital markets, financial intermediaries, stock exchanges and alternative trading systems, and public companies.  He also serves as an arbitrator in customer securities disputes as a member of FINRA's Roster of Neutrals.  Additional information about Professor Dombalagian's background and scholarly interests is available at his personal web page, http://home.earthlink.net/~odombala.

Professor Dombalagian's CV 

Courses:
Fall 2009 - Business Enterprises
Spring 2010 - Business Enterprises II; Securities Regulation
Other courses - Corporate Finance