AALS Section on
Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Protection
Beyond Financial
Reform: Mapping Regulatory
Objectives, Institutional Forms, and Accountability in the Post-Crisis
Landscape
Friday, January 7,
4-5:45 pm
2011 AALS Annual
Meeting
San Francisco,
California
The AALS
Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services will hold a panel
presentation of selected papers during the AALS 2011 Annual Meeting in San
Francisco, California.
Program
Summary:
Three
years into the deepest financial crisis in decades, debates rage on about the
core objectives of regulating finance, the relative importance of competing
objectives and the relative competences of competing local, national and global
regulators. This program will
assess the recent reform efforts in context, to shed light on the choices
inherent in determining who gets to regulate whom, how, and for whose
sake. What, if any, tradeoffs must
be made between systemic stability and growth? … safety and soundness and consumer protection? … risk management and innovation? … home country, host country, and
multilateral regulation? …
regulatory effectiveness and accountability?
Leading
policy makers, academics and market participants have staked out positions on
the merits; yet others contend that reform has been mired in false
choices. The program will address
the competing claims; explore the relationships among regulation, finance, and
its economic, political and social context; and try to shift the terms of
theoretical and policy debates to chart the path ahead. Of particular interest are papers that:
· Engage with economic and political
thought on urgent policy problems,
such as macroprudential and countercyclical regulation;
· Address the challenges of
compliance, regulatory arbitrage, and regulatory capture;
· Contribute to the debate about the
institutional structure of regulation and the competing bases for allocation of
regulatory authority; and
· Explore insights for
financial regulation from other law disciplines, including bankruptcy,
international law, and administrative law, as well as institutional and
behavioral fields outside the law.
Call for Papers:
Law
teachers and other scholars are invited to submit a manuscript or précis on any
aspect of the foregoing topic.
Junior faculty members are particularly encouraged to submit. A review committee consisting of
Section officers will select one or more papers or proposals and will invite
the author(s) of each selected submission to make a presentation at the program
panel. A précis should be
comprehensive enough to allow the review committee to evaluate the likely
content and quality of the proposed paper; however, complete drafts will
receive preference in the selection process. Please send submissions to the Program Chair--Anna Gelpern,
American University Washington College of Law, agelpern@wcl.american.edu--no later than August 1, 2010.
Please forward this Call for Papers to anyone who might be interested.
Eligibility:
Faculty
members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible to submit papers
for this panel presentation. Foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty
members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit for this
panel presentation; however, any such submissions may be considered for other
parts of the Section program at the Annual Meeting.
Registration Fee and Expenses:
Call for
Paper participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting
registration fee and travel expenses.
How will papers be reviewed?
Papers
will be selected after review by members of the Executive Committee of the
Section.
Deadline date for submission:
August 1,
2010
Contact for submission and
inquiries:
Anna
Gelpern, American University Washington College of Law, agelpern@wcl.american.edu
Authors
of accepted papers will be notified in September 2010.
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