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Amici brief: FinReg scholars defend CFPB in DC circuit case

Jul 3, 2017
On March 31, 2017, Center on Finance, Law, and Policy faculty director Michael S. Barr of University of Michigan Law School, well-known Supreme Court and appellate litigator Deepak Gupta, and Georgetown Law professor Adam Levitin, as counsel of...
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Michael Barr named dean of the Ford School of Public Policy

Jun 15, 2017
Michael S. Barr will be the new Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, effective Aug. 1. His five-year appointment was approved Thursday by the Board of Regents. Barr is the Roy F. and Jean...
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New U-M interdisciplinary clinic assists Detroit entrepreneurs

Feb 2, 2017
Two weeks ago, 22 students from the Law School, the Ross School of Business, and the Stamps School of Art & Design plus 10 faculty members from those same schools gathered in an unremarkable Ross classroom for what is the beginning of a remarkable...
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Big data conference speakers announced

Oct 6, 2016
The University of Michigan and U.S. Office of Financial Research are proud to present the speakers for this year's Big Data in Finance conference: Richard Berner Prior to his confirmation as OFR Director, Berner served as Counselor to the...
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Big data conference registration now available

Aug 9, 2016
Online registration is now available for the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law and Policy’s second annual conference with the federal Office of Financial Research. This year’s theme, “Big Data: Improving the Scope, Quality, and...
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White paper: challenges and opportunities with big data

Aug 5, 2016
University of Michigan’s Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, H.V. Jagadish recently coordinated the publication of a white paper on the research challenges posed by big data.  …"While the...
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New Financial Regulation textbook available

Aug 1, 2016
Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, a new textbook by the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy’s Faculty Director, Professor Michael Barr, was published by Foundation Press in June 2016 and is now available!  Barr co-authored the textbook...
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The value of accounting to Detroit and local entrepreneurs

Jun 11, 2016
Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneur’s Project Research Assistant Aaron Ngo recently published an article on Medium about how much he is learning about the social impact this type of support can provide for Detroit Entrepreneurs. From Ngo’s...
CFLP Update

Expanding financial inclusion to the poor

Mar 20, 2016
“The financial crisis of 2008 crushed families, businesses, and the real economy, and laid bare core failings of the financial system.  For the one in seven Americans who lives in poverty, or the millions of Americans who live in fear of falling out...
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CNBC op-ed: what Obama still needs to address

Jan 12, 2016
On the morning of President Obama’s final State of the Union speech, CFLP Faculty Director Michael Barr discusses the unfinished work of financial reform in an op-ed posted on cnbc.com: In the past, the financial system has contributed to...
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Recap: workshop on international financial regulation

Jun 11, 2015
By Libby Benton Is the international financial regulatory system up to the task of overseeing the global financial system? This question, posed by Michigan Law professor Michael S. Barr, in his recent article “Who’s in Charge of Global Finance?”...
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Law and finance professors submit amicus brief in MetLife v. FSOC

May 26, 2015
By Michael S. Barr & Kate Andrias  Last week we filed an amicus brief in MetLife v. Financial Stability Oversight Council on behalf of fifteen professors of law and finance with our co-authors, Professors Robert Jackson and Gillian Metzger of...