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Michael Barr joined noted DC appellate attorney Deepak Gupta as co-counsel on a June 27 amicus brief, submitted by financial regulation scholars and former government officials who have worked to prevent violent non-state actors from accessing the...

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...

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 University of Michigan Board of Regents.  Barr is...

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...

In their 2008 book Nudge, researchers Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein distinguish between two types of individuals: humans and Econs. Econs are “these strange creatures” found only in economics textbooks. They are unemotional, smart and never have...

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...

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...

In testimony before the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, more commonly known as the ERISA Advisory Council on August 23, 2016, University of Michigan’s Robert L. Dixon Collegiate Professor of Business and Arthur F....

Center Faculty Director Michael Barr, along with Daniel Schaffa, PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan, with support from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, have released a working paper which analyzes the effect of the...

The Center on Finance, Law, and Policy is pleased to announce the creation of a new Working Paper series, by releasing six working papers produced by scholars as a result of the Center’s 2015 “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Financial Stability”...

Ever since the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 devastated the U.S. economy, many have tried to measure systemic risk — that is, the risk that the entire financial system will fail all at once.  University of Michigan Finance Professor Amiyatosh...

In an article published in The Conversation, Michael Wellman, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, considers the role of algorithmic traders (also known as algos, bots, and AIs) as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

On October 22-23, 2015, more than 250 regulators, policymakers, financial market participants, and academic researchers from a broad range of disciplines gathered in Ann Arbor to explore how methods from diverse fields can be used to better...

In testimony submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs today, Professor Michael S. Barr argues that the U.S. should not let Wall Street’s arguments for loopholes in global enforcement hamstring meaningful reform....

In testimony submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs today, Professor Michael S. Barr argues that the U.S. should not let Wall Street’s arguments for loopholes in global enforcement hamstring meaningful reform....

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?”...

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...

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...

The U.S. has an enviable entrepreneurial culture and vibrant capital markets, which help foster small business formation, create jobs, and increase economic growth. But, at the same time, we need to do more to ensure minority and women entrepreneurs...

The U.S. has an enviable entrepreneurial culture and vibrant capital markets, which help foster small business formation, create jobs, and increase economic growth. But, at the same time, we need to do more to ensure minority and women entrepreneurs...