Cornelius K. Hurley

Director, Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law and the Morin Center
Professor of the Practice of Banking Law
B.A., Holy Cross College
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
P.M.D., Harvard Business School

Professor Cornelius Hurley has over 30 years of diversified legal and entrepreneurial management experience in financial services. He is a director of Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. Professor Hurley established the Boston office of The Secura Group, Washington, D.C. Formerly he was general counsel of Shawmut Corporation, and assistant general counsel of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Active in the American Bar Association, he is a faculty member of Banking Law Basics, Banking Law II, Consumer Financial Services Basics, and Investment Management Basics, all institutes conducted jointly by the Morin Center and the ABA. He teaches banking Structure and Regulation and the Thesis Seminar in the Graduate Program. Prof. Hurley also serves as reporter to the American Bar Association's Task Force on Financial Markets Regulatory Reform. He is the author of numerous articles and commentaries that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, American Banker, The Boston Globe and other publications. During the current economic crisis, he has provided analysis on national and local television and radio outlets. Finally, he has been director of the Morin Center since 2005.