The recent global financial crisis has forced many statutory, legislative, economic, and political changes. It has also prompted a reevaluation of this landscape by scholars of financial regulation.
Numerous researchers, pundits, and observers of all sorts have questioned the substantive content of recent financial reform: does it do enough? Too much? The right things?
But others go deeper, questioning the very process by which financial regulation takes shape within the U.S. and other countries and analyzing the future prospects for meaningful financial reform. Do existing political and regulatory models, largely developed by reference to other subject-matter areas, accurately describe the world of financial reform and regulation? Is special-interest capture particularly acute with respect to financial reform? Does systemic risk create distinctive regulatory hazards and problems? Is financial regulation prone to over- and/or under-reaction, simply responding to the public’s angers and fears over the most recent financial crisis, scandal, or news item?
On September 12-13, 2012, guest-bloggers at The Faculty Lounge will discuss these topics in a special forum on financial regulation, “Reforming Financial Reform?” Each participant has published extensively on the financial regulation process. Many plan to share new works-in-progress with forum participants and Lounge readers.
So, tune in on September 12-13 to hear from and talk to:
Cristie Ford, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Erik Gerding, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado
Kimberly D. Krawiec, Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor of Law, Duke University
Brett McDonnell, Professor of Law; Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Minnesota
Saule T. Omarova, Assistant Professor of Law, University of North Carolina
Daniel Schwarcz, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
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