Sarath Sanga
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Sarath Sanga is a professor of law and co-director of the Center for the Study of Corporate Law at Yale Law School. His research includes contracts, corporate governance, the governance of AI firms and the use of AI in legal work.[1] He co-authored No Limited Liability for AI with Gabriel Rauterberg and co-founded SCALES, a project using AI to make federal court records more accessible.[1][2]
Roles and affiliations
Sanga joined Yale as a professor of law effective July 1, 2023. Yale’s appointment announcement identifies his previous Northwestern position and visiting appointments at Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley and Columbia.[3] His October 2026 curriculum vitae lists his Yale professorship and corporate-law center co-directorship from 2023. He holds a J.D. from Yale and a Ph.D. in economics from Berkeley.[4]
Contributions and positions
Governance and liability of AI firms
In No Limited Liability for AI, Sanga and Rauterberg argue that frontier AI companies’ shareholders should bear more of the costs of corporate torts. Their reasoning focuses on the connection between profitable model capabilities and external harms, the possibility of losses beyond a firm’s resources and developers’ informational advantages over regulators.[2]
They propose capped proportional exposure for non-controlling investors when a firm becomes insolvent, greater and uncapped liability for controllers, and additional personal payments by controllers while the firm remains solvent. The objective is to influence risk decisions before losses become uncollectible. They discuss voluntary charter provisions and the potential role of insurance. The manuscript discloses both authors’ retirement-account index-fund holdings in some AI companies and their use of Claude and ChatGPT in discussions of its ideas.[2]
Sanga’s Yale biography also identifies ongoing work on deliberative assemblies as a governance mechanism for AI firms. His personal research page lists Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers as a 2026 working paper with Alejandro Salinas, Julian Nyarko and other collaborators; his October 2026 CV includes the same project. These listings identify work on AI-assisted legal answers alongside his corporate-governance research.[5][1][4]
AI and access to court records
Sanga is a co-author of The SCALES Project: Making Federal Court Records Free, published in the Northwestern University Law Review in 2024. The article describes assembling court records, organizing their text and extracting information for public use. Its authors identify access fees and fragmented records as obstacles to empirical analysis of the federal judiciary.[6]
The SCALES website describes a free explorer combining enriched data from all 94 U.S. district courts for questions about judges, cases and outcomes. It presents the platform as a resource for the public, policymakers, researchers and legal professionals.[7]
Corporate governance scholarship
With Rauterberg, Sanga co-authored Altering Rules: The New Frontier for Corporate Governance (2025). Their framework examines whose consent changes default governance rules and who is bound by those changes, with proposals to protect shareholders outside a particular agreement.[8]
Selected works
- No Limited Liability for AI — Undated author manuscript with Gabriel Rauterberg; full PDF and summary.[2]
- The SCALES Project: Making Federal Court Records Free (2024) — Co-authored article; institutional record and abstract.[6]
- Altering Rules: The New Frontier for Corporate Governance (2025) — Co-authored journal article.[8]
- Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers (2026) — Working paper listed on the author’s research website.[5][4]
Institutional coverage
- February 9, 2023 — Yale faculty appointment announcement, including his role in SCALES.[3]
Related articles
- Gabriel Rauterberg
- No Limited Liability for AI
- United States policy on catastrophic AI risk
- People in AI and Law
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yale Law School, Sarath Sanga, faculty biography. Accessed October 4, 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Gabriel Rauterberg and Sarath Sanga, No Limited Liability for AI, undated author manuscript, pp. 1, 9–19.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yale Law School, Sarath Sanga ’14 to Join Yale Law School Faculty, February 9, 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sarath Sanga, Curriculum Vitae, October 2026, pp. 1–3.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sarath Sanga, personal research website, AI research listings. Accessed October 4, 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 David L. Schwartz and co-authors, The SCALES Project: Making Federal Court Records Free, 119 Northwestern University Law Review 23–64 (2024), institutional publication record and abstract.
- ↑ SCALES-OKN, project website, “How SCALES Works” and “Using SCALES’ Platform”. Accessed October 4, 2026.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Columbia Law School Scholarship Archive, Gabriel Rauterberg and Sarath Sanga, Altering Rules: The New Frontier for Corporate Governance, 42 Yale Journal on Regulation 291 (2025), publication record and abstract.