The Politics of Financial Regulation
For a second consecutive year, the Review of Banking and Financial Law (RBFL), in partnership with the Brookings Institution (Brookings), hosted a symposium, The Politics of Financial Regulation. The event was held at Boston University on February 2nd, 2024. Approximately 40 people attended in person and we had over 500 virtual registrants. Sheila Bair, former Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), participated in a keynote fireside chat.
Those interested in submitting papers in relation to the symposium can do so by sending an email with a proposal to rbfl@bu.edu.
The video recording of the symposium can be found below.
Schedule of Events
Panel 1: Crypto and Digital Assets
Moderator: Professor Perry Mehrling, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies.
Panelists:
Jonathan Gould, Partner at Jones Day
Timothy Duncan, Principal and Founder, Cambridge Financial Technology and Lecturer at Boston University School of Law
Keynote Fireside Chat w/ Sheila Bair, Former Chair of the FDIC
Moderated by Aaron Klein, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Panel 2: ESG
Moderator: Professor Jack Beermann, Boston University School of Law.
Panelists:
Professor Jeremy Kress, the University of Michigan Law School
John Gulliver, Executive Director of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems
Professor Pierluigi Matera, LCU of Rome, LUISS Guido Carli of Rome, and Lecturer at Boston University School of Law
Panel 3: Bank Capital and Systemic Risk
Moderator: Professor Cornelius Hurley, Boston University School of Law.
Panelists:
Aaron Klein, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Greg Baer, President and CEO at the Bank Policy Institute
Professor Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University Department of Economics