Patricia McCoy

Patricia A. McCoy is the Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor at Boston College Law School.  Her research interests focus on the nexus among financial services, consumer welfare, and systemic risk.   In 2010-2011, she was the first Assistant Director of Mortgage Markets at the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., where she oversaw all of the Bureau’s mortgage policy initiatives.  She has also served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board and the Advisory Council on Economic Inclusion of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Professor McCoy received her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Industrial Relations Law Journal.  Later, she clerked for the late Hon. Robert S. Vance on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.  Before entering academe, Professor McCoy was a partner at the law firm of Mayer, Brown in Washington, D.C.  Later, she spent the 2002-2003 school year as a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Economics Department.  Professor McCoy has three books to her credit, including The Subprime Virus, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2011 and written with Kathleen C. Engel. 

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Boston College Law School