Rory Van Loo

Professor, School of Law, LAW

Rory Van Loo’s research focuses on consumer businesses, with a particular interest in the intersection between technology and regulation. He was twice selected through blind peer review for the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. His articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, UCLA Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Virginia Law Review.

Prior to joining BU Law, Professor Van Loo served on the implementation team that set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, helping to build the framework for the supervision of large banks. He also lectured at Harvard Law School and conducted empirical studies at McKinsey & Co. for multinational consumer companies in mergers and acquisitions, organizational design, and sales.

Professor Van Loo’s intellectual study of digital markets began with an undergraduate major in Science, Technology, and Society, with a focus on Computer Science. He then received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to spend a year in Argentina, Costa Rica, the Cote d’Ivoire, India, Mali, Peru, Senegal, and Vietnam researching the economic impact of the internet.