News Topic: Academic & Scholarly News

Thanks to Stephen for posting the Bellingham/Arkison/Executive Benefits opinion, which I will for simplicity think of as Stern II , as it's the second installment of what will necessarily be a trilogy of Supreme Court cases on the question.  True, ... Read full article

I just read Jennifer Taub's outstanding book  Other People's Houses , which is a history of mortgage deregulation and the financial crisis.  The book makes a nice compliment to Kathleen Engel and Patricia McCoy's fantastic  The Subprime ... Read full article

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I have a multi-book  review essay  on the financial crisis that is now out in the Harvard Law Review. Sadly, Timothy Geithner went to print to late for me to include his book. James Kwak has written a nice response to my essay  here .    ... Read full article

The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System invite paper submissions for the ninth biennial Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference, to be held on April 2-3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The Federal Reserve System ... Read full article

Still looking for a conference to attend this May? Come to beautiful Santa Fe and learn the latest and greatest about teaching consumer law. This conference features speakers from around the world. More specifically, On May 30–31, the Center for Consumer ... Read full article

The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System invite paper submissions for the ninth biennial Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference, to be held on April 2-3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The Federal Reserve System ... Read full article

Still looking for a conference to attend this May? Come to beautiful Santa Fe and learn the latest and greatest about teaching consumer law. This conference features speakers from around the world. More specifically, On May 30–31, the Center for Consumer ... Read full article

Richard Alderman (Houston Law Center ) and I welcome all of you to beautiful Santa Fe New Mexico on May 30-31,  2014 for the only international conference in the world dedicated to the teaching of consumer law. The conference is sponsored by the Center ... Read full article

I’m on my way to the Choice of Law in Cross-Border Bankruptcy Cases symposium  at Brooklyn Law School that Susan Block-Lieb mentioned in her post earlier this week, so I have Chapter 15 on the brain. ... Read full article

I have an new article, The Politics of Financial Regulation and the Regulation of Financial Politics ,  forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review .  The article is a multi-book review essay that serves as a launching pad for a discussion about the role of ... Read full article

I've got a new article out in the Duke Law Journal entitled The Paper Chase:  Securitization, Foreclosure, and the Uncertainty of Mortgage Title .  The article is about the confusion securitization has caused in foreclosure cases because of the shift ... Read full article

Suffolk Law School and the National Consumer Law Center are convening a Research Symposium on Student Loans in Boston on April 10th and 11th.  The goal of the Symposium, which is invitation-only, is to bring together the nation’s top experts, including ... Read full article

As Prof. Nathalie Martin noted, the ABI has an upcoming conference on student loans . For those more interested in policy than straight up bankruptcy law, the St. Louis Federal Reserve will host a one day conference on the state of student loans in ... Read full article

Whatever force academics have in public debate comes not from a claim that we are somehow smarter than others but because we can claim the persuasive force of having opinions that have not been purchased by others. Over the years, I have watched the line ... Read full article

West Publishing will soon release the third edition of Tabb's Law of Bankruptcy authored by my colleague, Charles Tabb . This treatise is moving over to West from Foundation Press. The expected release date is November 14. In my opinion, Charles has ... Read full article

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I recently stumbled on this excellent compendium of more than 300 books on the financial crisis.  It also includes a list of 25 or so books that predicted the crisis, as well as a useful link to an annotated list of individuals who can be given credit for ... Read full article