Saule Omarova specializes in regulation of financial institutions, banking law, international finance, and corporate finance.

Before joining Cornell Law School in 2014, she was the George R. Ward Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Prior to joining academia, Professor Omarova practiced law in the Financial Institutions Group of Davis Polk & Wardwell, a premier New York law firm, where she specialized in a wide variety of corporate transactions and advisory work in the area of financial regulation. In 2006-2007, she served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance.

She received her Diploma (B.A. equivalent) from Moscow State University in 1989 ; Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999 and her J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2001.