It's my pleasure to announce that Peter Conti-Brown, who is an Academic Fellow, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford, is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell. Close readers of the faculty lounge may recall that I blogged about Peter's "Scarcity Amidst Wealth: The Law, Finance, and Culture of Elite University Endowments in Financial Crisis," which appeared in the March 2011 issue of the Stanford Law Review a while back. Cribbing now from the Rock Center's description of Peter:
He writes in the areas of banking, bankruptcy, corporate, and administrative law, with a focus on the law, economics, and history of banking and bank regulation, financial and fiscal crises, debt regulation, central banking and the Federal Reserve, and corporate governance for banks and other financial institutions.
Conti-Brown's articles have appeared in the Stanford, UCLA, and Washington University Law Reviews, among other journals. He is also the editor, with David Skeel, of the book When States Go Broke: Origins, Context, and Solutions for the American States in Fiscal Crisis, published by Cambridge University Press. He has been quoted in print and online articles published by Reuters, The Economist, The New York Times, US News and World Report, among others.
Conti-Brown graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and Stanford Law School, and clerked for the Hon. Gerard E. Lynch on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Conti-Brown will be a PhD candidate in history at Princeton University beginning in 2013, where he plans to focus on economic and financial history and write a dissertation on the financial, intellectual, and political origins of the Federal Reserve System.
Long-time readers of the facutly lounge may recall that I was a student of Judge Lynch (and here) back in the days when he was Professor Lynch. That was a fabulous intellectual experience.
Welcome, Peter. Looking forward to your posts!
Comments