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ROBERT C. HOCKETT Cornell Law School
316 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca NY 14853 USA
May 2013
EMPLOYMENT
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York
Professor of Law, since 2010; Associate Professor of Law, 2007-2009;
Assistant Professor of Law, 2004-2007
Sorbonne Faculty of Law, Paris, France
Regular Winter Visiting Professor of Law, 2010-
International Monetary Fund, Washington, District of Columbia
Resident Consultant, 2012-; Contractual Consultant, 2000-01;
Legal Intern, 1999
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, New York
Resident Consultant, 2011-12
Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
Senior Research Scholar in Law, 2003-2004; Tutor in Law, 2001-2004
Harvard Law School & Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Teaching Fellow, Spring 2004
Hon. Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 10th
Circuit
Law Clerk, 1999-2000
AFFILIATIONS
Association of American Law Schools, New York, New York
Chair Elect, Section on Financial Institutions, 2013-
New York City Bar Association, New York, New York
Member, Committee on Banking Law, 2011-
Global Interdependence Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fellow, 2013-
The Century Foundation, New York, New York
Fellow and Commissioned Author, 2012-
New America Foundation, Washington, District of Columbia
Commissioned Author and Affiliated Scholar, 2011-
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Westwood Capital, LLC, New York, New York
Of Counsel, 2011-
Americans for Financial Reform, Washington, District of Columbia
Fellow, 2012-
The Occupy Money Cooperative, New York, New York
Board Member, 2011-
Samasource Socially Responsible Investing, Inc., San Francisco, California
Board Member, 2008-10
EDUCATION
Yale Law School
LL.M., J.S.D.
Dissertation: A Jeffersonian Republic by Hamiltonian Means: Values,
Constraints & Finance in a Just ‘Ownership Society’
Committee: Jerry Mashaw (Chair), Henry Hansmann, Michael Graetz;
John Roemer (ex officio), Robert Shiller (ex officio)
Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2005; Honors in All Graded Courses
YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION – Executive Editor (Vol. 20, No. 1),
Articles Editor (Vol. 19, No. 2), Editor (Vol. 19, No. 1)
Oxford University
M.A., Philosophy (Mathematical Logic Emphasis) & Economics
Thesis: Recursion, Indeterminacy, & Antinomy: A Three-Valued
Intensional Logic & Associated Theory of Negation
Supervisor & Advisors: G.P. Baker; D. Isaacson, B.F. McGuinness
Rhodes Scholar
University of Kansas
B.A., English & Government; J.D.
Law Honors: Order of the Coif; Rice Scholarship (highest Law School
pre-graduation honor); Law Faculty Awards for Most Outstanding
Scholastic Achievement & Most Outstanding Service (highest Law
School graduation honors); seven CALI Awards
Bachelors Honors: Summa cum Laude; Departmental Honors & Honors
Theses in both majors; Summerfield (highest College of Arts &
Sciences honor) & Pearson Scholarships; Gustafson, Kennedy &
Lear Awards (highest departmental honors); Phi Beta Kappa;
Lambda Sigma; Mortar Board; Owl Society
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PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES & ESSAYS: FORTHCOMING, PUBLISHED, UNDER REVISION
Private Means to Public Ends: Governments as Market Actors, 14 THEOR. INQ. IN
L. __ (2013) (with Saule T. Omarova) (peer-reviewed journal of legal
theory) (symposium issue) (forthcoming).
A Federalist Blessing in Disguise: From National Inaction to Local Action on
Underwater Mortgage Loans, 7 HARV. L. & POL’Y REV. __ (2013) (with
John Vlahoplus) (forthcoming).
The Macroprudential Turn: From Institutional“Safety and Soundness” to
“Systemic Financial Stability” in Financial Supervision, 8 VA. L. & BUS.
REV. __ (2013) (forthcoming).
Paying Paul and Robbing No One: An Eminent Domain Solution for Underwater
Mortgage Debt, 18 CURRENT ISSUES IN ECON. & FIN. __ (2013)
(forthcoming) (peer-reviewed economics and finance journal published by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York).
Bretton Woods 1.0: An Essay in Constructive Retrieval, 16 N.Y.U. J. LEGIS.
& Public Pol’y __ (2013) (forthcoming).
Money, Finance, and Recursive Collective Action Problems, 5 J. APP.
ECON. __ (2013) (peer-reviewed economics journal) (forthcoming).
Recursive Collective Action Problems, 5 J. APP. ECON. __ (2013) (peer-reviewed
economics journal) (forthcoming).
Income Inequality & Market Volatility: Explaining the Relation, 18 N.C.
BANKING L. J. __ (2013) (symposium issue) (forthcoming).
Accidental Suicide Pacts and Creditor Collective Action Problems: The Mortgage
Mess, the Deadweight Loss, and How to Get the Value Back, 98 CORNELL
L. REV. __ (2013) (CLR Online) (forthcoming).
Contracts, Currencies, and Legal Change, 30 U. PA. J. INT’L L. __ (2013)
(forthcoming).
- Reprinted in part as Were “It” to Happen: Contract Continuity Under
Euro Regime Change, 32 NW. J. INT’L L. & BUS. __ (2013)
(forthcoming).
- Reprinted in part as Contracts and Currency Regime Change, 5 INDIA
L. J. __ (2013) (forthcoming).
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Debt, Deflation, and Debacle: Of Private Debt Write-Down and Public Recovery,
White Paper, Global Interdependence Center, Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia (2013).
The Libertarian Welfare State: An Essay on Robert Frank’s “Darwin Economy,”
56 CHALLENGE 100 (2013) (peer-reviewed economic policy journal).
It Takes a Village: Municipal Condemnation Proceedings as Underwater
Mortgage Cure, 18 STAN. J. L., BUS. & FIN. 121 (2013).
- Reprinted in part as An “Inverse-Kelo” Cure for Underwater
Mortgage Debt, 46 REAL ESTATE L.J. __ (2013) (peer-reviewed
journal of real estate law and finance) (forthcoming).
- Reprinted in part as Public-Private Partnerships for Mortgage
Refinance, 46 U. MICH. J.L. REFORM __ (2013) (forthcoming).
Six Years on and Still Counting: Sifting Through the Mortgage Mess, 9
HAST. BUS. L. J. 373 (2013).
Macro-Securities and Micro-Insurance: Public and Private in the Completion of
Risk-Trading Markets, 5 INS. MARKETS & COMP. J. __ (2013) (peer-
reviewed insurance journal) (forthcoming).
Gaming as Micro-Insurance: How and Why to Regulate, not Eliminate, Online
Gambling, 5 INS. MARKETS & COMP. J. __ (2013) (peer-reviewed
insurance journal) (forthcoming).
Domestic Bank Regulation in a Global Environment – A Comparative Dialogue,
17 N.C. BANKING L. J. 1 (2013) (lead symposium, with Cyrus Amir-
Mokri, Lissa Broome, Chris Brummer, and Michael Helfer).
Justice in Production: Ethical, Legal, and Economic Foundations of
“Economic Democracy,” Policy Paper, The Century Foundation (2013)
(forthcoming).
Government as Market-Maker, Policy Paper, Roosevelt Institute (2013)
(forthcoming).
A Sustainable Architecture for Global Trade and Finance, White Paper,
New America Foundation (2013) (forthcoming).
Public Infrastructure Investment and the U.S. Fiscal Position, White Paper, New
America Foundation (2013) (with Robert Frank) (forthcoming).
Leaning, Cleaning, and Macroprudence, 27 March 2013 HARVARD FORUM ON
CORP. GOV. & FIN. REG. (peer-invited forum contribution).
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Paying Peter, Paying Paul: How Eminent Domain for Underwater Mortgages
Can Benefit Literally Everyone, Nov/Dec BOSTON REV. 32 (2012)
(by invitation, peer-reviewed public affairs journal).
White Paper in Support of the Nation Building Here at Home Act of 2012, White
Paper, Office of U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins, 27th
District of New
York (2012).
The Analytics of Distribution, 20 S. CAL. INTERDISC. L. J. 1 (2012).
The Way Forward: Moving from the Post-Bubble, Post-Bust Economy to
Renewed Growth and Competitiveness, White Paper, New America
Foundation (2011) (with Daniel Alpert & Nouriel Roubini).
The Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act of 2011, Draft Statute,
New York City Bar Association (2011) (with Michael Campbell).
White Paper in Support of the Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act of
2011, New York City Bar Association (2011) (with Michael Campbell).
Promise against Peril: Of Power, Purpose, and Principle in International Law,
17 ILSA J. INT’L & COMP. L. 71 (2011).
A Fixer-Upper for Finance, 87 WASH. U. L. REV. 1213 (2010).
Foreword: Interpreting – and Learning From? – Yet Another “Meltdown,” 61
SYRACUSE L. REV. 411 (2010) (symposium issue).
- Reprinted in part as Bubbles, Busts, and Blame, 37 CORNELL LAW
FORUM 14 (2011).
Making (Some) Sense of the Health Care Reform Debate, 53 CHALLENGE 28
(2010) (peer-reviewed economic policy journal).
Justice in Time, 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1135 (2009) (symposium issue).
Why Paretians Can’t Prescribe: Preferences, Principles, and Imperatives in Law
and Policy, 18 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL’Y 391 (2009).
Bailouts, Buy-Ins, and Ballyhoo, 52 CHALLENGE 36 (2009) (peer-reviewed
economic policy journal).
- Reprinted in part as What the New Treasury Must Do, 35 CORNELL
LAW FORUM 4 (2009).
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- Reprinted in part as Bringing It All Back Home: Save Main Street,
Ignore K Street, and That Will Save Wall Street, 36 FORDHAM URBAN
L. J. 427 (2009) (symposium issue).
Human Persons, Human Rights, and the Distributive Structure of Global Justice,
40 COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS L. REV. 343 (2009).
Toward a Global Shareholder Society, 30 U. PA. J. INT’L L. 101 (2008).
- Reprinted in part as “Insource” the Shareholding of “Outsourced”
Employees: A Global Stock Ownership Plan, 3 VA. L. & BUS. REV.
357 (2008).
- Reprinted in part as How the IFIs Can Win Globalization More
Stakeholders – By Making More Stockholders, 17 KAN. J. L. & PUB.
POL’Y 295 (2008) (symposium issue).
Reflective Intensions: Two Foundational Decision-Points in Mathematics, Law,
and Economics, 29 CARDOZO L. REV. 1967 (2008) (symposium issue).
What Kinds of Stock Ownership Plans Should There Be? Of ESOPs, Other SOPs
and “Ownership Societies,” 92 CORNELL L. REV. 865 (2007).
- Reprinted in part as Why (Only) ESOPs? 12 STAN. J. L., BUS. & FIN.
84 (2006).
Valuing the Waiver: The Real Beauty of Geoffrey Miller’s Proposal, 57 CASE
WESTERN RESERVE L. REV. 381 (2007) (symposium issue).
The Limits of Their World, 90 MINN. L. REV. 1720 (2006).
A Jeffersonian Republic by Hamiltonian Means: Values, Constraints and Finance
in the Design of a Contemporary American “Ownership Society,” 79 S.
CAL. L. REV. 45 (2006).
- Reprinted in part as A Jeffersonian Republic by Hamiltonian Means:
Values, Constraints & Finance in an Authentic American “Ownership
Society,” 32 CORNELL LAW FORUM 2 (2005).
Justice in International Trade-Liberalization: A Proposed Framework for
Analysis, CARNEGIE COUNCIL GLOBAL SOCIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM, at
http://www.cceia.org/resources/articles_papers_reports/5359.html#3
(2006) (peer-invited and –reviewed symposium issue).
Institutional Fixes versus Fixed Institutions, 39 CORNELL INT’L L. J. 537 (2006)
(symposium issue).
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Three (Potential) Pillars of Transnational Economic Justice: The Bretton Woods
Institutions as Guarantors of Global Equal Treatment and Market-
Completion, 36 METAPHILOSOPHY 93 (2005) (peer-reviewed philosophy
journal).
Whose Ownership? Which Society?, 27 CARDOZO L. REV. 1 (2005).
The Deep Grammar of Distribution: A Meta-Theory of Justice, 26 CARDOZO L.
REV. 1179 (2005).
From “Mission-Creep” to Gestalt-Switch: Justice, Finance, the IFIs and
Globalization’s Intended Beneficiaries, 36 GEO. WASH. INT’L L. REV. 167
(2005).
- Reprinted in part as From “Mission-Creep” to Gestalt-Switch: Justice,
Finance, the IFIs and the Intended Beneficiaries of Globalization, 98
PROC. AM. SOC’Y INT’L L. 69 (2004) (peer-invited and –reviewed
symposium issue).
Just Insurance Through Global Macro-Hedging: Information, Distributive
Equity, Efficiency and New Markets for Systemic-Income-Risk-Pricing and
-Trading in a “New Economy,” 25 U. PA. J. INT’L ECON. L. 107 (2004).
From Macro to Micro to “Mission-Creep”: Defending the IMF’s Emerging
Concern with the Infrastructural Prerequisites to Global Financial
Stability, 41 COLUMBIA J. TRANSNAT’L L. 153 (2002).
- Reprinted in part as Legally Defending “Mission-Creep”: How the
Bretton Woods Charters Anticipate and Justify Attention to
“Structural” Variables, 13 INT’L LEGAL PERSP. 34 (2002).
Noncomparabilities & Nonstandard Logics (under revision for ECON. & PHIL.)
(peer-reviewed economic and philosophical journal).
Primary Goods Revisited (with Mathias Risse, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University; under revision for ECON. & PHIL.)
(peer-reviewed economic and philosophical journal).
WORKING PAPERS: UNDER REVIEW, TO BE SUBMITTED, IN PREPARATION OR
PLANNING
Pareto versus Welfare.
The Form of Welfare.
Recursive Social Welfare Functions.
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Three Understandings of “The Priority of the Right Over the Good.”
Market Completeness, Market Neutrality, & Ethically Cognizable Efficiency: An
Ordinal-Equivalence Theorem.
Income Inequality & Market Fragility: Some Empirics in the Political Economy
of Finance (with Daniel Dillon).
“Sound Money.”
What’s the Fed For? Making Sense of a Mandate.
What’s Finance For? Material Opportunity, Financial Intermediation, and the
“Real” Economy (with Saule T. Omarova).
Shadow Banking, Scrip, and Endogenous Money: What They Share and Why It
Matters.
Fallacies of Composition.
A Nation is not a Household: On a Common Fallacy of Composition in Law,
Politics and Economics.
A Financial System is not an Aggregate of Institutions: On a Common Fallacy of
Composition in Finance and Regulation.
Basle, Back, and Beyond: A New Deal for Global Finance.
Fiduciary Duty: An Essay in Retrieval.
Faith, Fairness, and Foundations: A Theory of Fiduciary Obligation.
Authorship, Authority, and Authorization: Groundings for the Law of Agency.
Partnership Through Thick and Thin: From Singular to Shared to Attenuated
Shared Agency in the Production of Value.
Privity with the Public: A Theory of the New Deal Financial Reforms.
The Market for Lemmings: Amplification Mechanisms in Finance.
Don’t Permit the Hype: Puffery and Prohibition in Credit, Securities, &
Prescription Drug Markets.
Creditors’ Equity: A Unified Theory of Controller Liability in the Vicinity of
Insolvency.
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BOOK CHAPTERS: FORTHCOMING, PUBLISHED
Institutions for a Just International Economic Order, in FAIR TRADE AND GLOBAL
JUSTICE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES (John Pearson ed., forthcoming
Palgrave MacMillan 2012).
The Financial Crisis in Developing World Perspective, in FOOD AND FINANCIAL
CRISES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: ORIGINS, IMPACTS, AND POLICY
IMPLICATIONS (David Lee & Muna Ndulo eds., Cambridge University
Press 2012).
Human Persons, Human Rights, and the Structure of Justice, in DISTRIBUTIVE
JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW (Chi Charmody, Frank
Garcia, & John Linarelli eds., forthcoming Oxford University Press 2011).
How to Win Globalization More Stakeholders – and the Developing Nations More
Wealth – by Making More Stockholders, in DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN
THE WTO SYSTEM (Chantal Thomas & Joel Trachtman eds., forthcoming
Cambridge University Press 2009).
The Structure of Distribution in Law & Economics, in NORMS AND VALUES IN
LAW & ECONOMICS (Aristides N. Hatzis ed., University of Chicago Press
2009).
Three (Potential) Pillars of Transnational Economic Justice: The Bretton Woods
Institutions as Guarantors of Global Equal Treatment and Market
Completion, in GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: ACHIEVING
GLOBAL JUSTICE (Christian Barry & Thomas Pogge eds., Basil Blackwell
2006).
BOOKS: FORTHCOMING, UNDER REVIEW, IN PREPARATION
CASES AND MATERIALS ON FINANCE AND ITS REGULATION (2013). Coursebook
forthcoming with Thomson-Reuters.
PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE AND FINANCIAL REGULATION (2013). Hornbook
forthcoming with Thomson-Reuters.
BANKING AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LAW IN A NUTSHELL (8th
ed., 2013) (with
William Lovett). Nutshell forthcoming from Thomson-Reuters.
LAW (Little Books of Big Ideas Series, 2009). Commissioned by Elwin Street
Publications, London, UK.
LAW AND ECONOMY AMONG EQUALS. In preparation. (Manuscript available.)
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HAMILTONIAN MEANS TO JEFFERSONIAN ENDS: FINANCE FOR A CIVIC REPUBLIC.
In preparation. (Manuscript available.)
JUSTICE IN PRODUCTION: AN ESSAY IN UTOPIAN DESIGN. In preparation.
(Manuscript available.)
CHAKA’S WINDOWS: WORKS AND DAYS IN THE LIFE OF A HOMELESS
ENTREPRENEUR (with Raymond Howze, the work’s subject; preface by
Robert Coles). To be submitted. (Manuscript available.)
THE REGULATION OF INSIDER DEALING (with B. Rider, Cambridge University).
Commissioned by the IMF Legal Department for publication, completed
manuscript under internal departmental review. (Copy available.)
EDITH STEIN: A PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE (with Robert Coles). Under contract with
Da Capo Press.
INVITED LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES
Yale Law School Conference on “Challenges in Global Financial Services,”
Invited Participant, New Haven CT, September 2013
Harvard Law School Conference on “Re-Theorizing Liquidity,” Invited Presenter,
Cambridge MA, June 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Invited Presenter on my “Paying Paul and
Robbing No One: A Municipal Eminent Domain Cure for Underwater
Mortgage Debt, New York NY, June 2013
Public Banking Institute, Invited Presenter on “The Bank of North Dakota and
Sparkassen Models,” San Francisco CA, June 2013
Law & Society Annual Meeting, Invited Panelist on “Herd Behavior and Asset
Price Bubbles,” Boston MA, May 2013
New America Foundation Rollout Event on my White Paper, “Public-Private
Infrastructure Investment and the Federal Budget Position, Washington
DC, May 2013
Yale Law School Conference on David Grewal’s The Invention of the Economy,
Invited Commentator, New Haven CT, May 2013
Yale Law School, Invited Presenter on my Eminent Domain Plan for
Underwater Mortgage Loans, New Haven CT, May 2013
Harvard Law School, Invited Presenter at and Subject of Conference on
“Eminent Domain Plans for Underwater Mortgage Loans,” Cambridge
MA, May 2013
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University of Chicago & Georgetown University “Markets, Justice, and Law”
Conference, Invited Presenter on “Implementing Justice,” Washington
DC, May 2013
Progressive Property Annual Meeting, Invited Presenter, with co-author Saule
Omarova, on “Private Means to Public Ends: Governments as Market
Actors,” New Orleans LA, May 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Global Interdependence Center
Conference on my paper “Debt, Deflation, & Debacle: Of Private Debt
Write-Down & Public Recovery,” Richmond VA, April 2013
Yale Law School Colloquium on International Economic Law, Invited Lecturer
on “Global Monetary Architecture,” New Haven CT, April 2013
College of William & Mary, Marshall Wythe School of Law Faculty Workshop,
Invited Presenter on “Income Inequality & Market Fragility, Williamsburg
VA, April 2013
22nd
Annual Hyman Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World
Economies, “Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and
Equitable Economy,” Invited Participant, Levy Economics Institute of
Bard College & Ford Foundation, New York NY, April 2013
Georgetown University Law Center Colloquium on International Finance, Invited
Presenter on “The Macroprudential Turn,” Washington DC, March 2013
George Washington University Law School Faculty Workshop, Invited Presenter
on “The Macroprudential Turn,” Washington DC, March 2013
University of North Carolina Banking Law Institute Annual Symposium, Invited
Participant, Charlotte NC, March 2013
Cornell Alumni Association of Washington DC, Invited Speaker on “Is the
Financial Crisis International?,” Washington DC, March 2013
University of California, Irvine, Invited Presenter on “The Costs and Benefits of
Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Irvine CA, March 2013
Tulane University, Murphy Center Conference on “Responsible Regulation,”
Invited Presenter, with co-author Saule Omarova, of “Operation as
Regulation,” New Orleans LA, March 2013
Roubini Global Economics, Invited Presenter on “Bretton Woods 1.0,” New York
NY, February 2013
Cornell International Law Journal Symposium on “The Changing Politics of
Central Banking,” Faculty Sponsor, Co-Organizer, and Presenter on
“Bretton Woods 1.0,” New York NY, February 2013
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George Washington University Law School Conference on “The Political
Economy of Financial Regulation Reform,” Invited Presenter on “Income
Inequality and Market Fragility,” Washington DC, February 2013
ALI/ABA Conference on “Eminent Domain and Valuation Litigation,” Invited
Panelist on my proposed eminent domain solution to the underwater
mortgage loan crisis, Miami FL January 2013
Federalist Society Debate on my Eminent Domain Plan for Underwater Mortgage
Loans, Invited Presenter, Washington DC, December 2012
Harvard Law School Conference on “Community Responses to the Foreclosure
Crisis,” Invited Speaker on “Progressive Financing Models,” Cambridge
MA, November 2012
Clearing House / University of North Carolina College of Law Conference on
“Domestic Bank Regulation in a Global Environment,” Invited Speaker,
New York NY November 2012
Brooklyn Law School Scholars’ Rountable on “Post-Crisis Implementation of
Regulatory Reforms,” Invited Participant, Brooklyn NY, November 2012
Georgetown University Law Center Colloquium on Financial Reform, Invited
Presenter on “The Way Forward: Moving From the Post-Bubble, Post-
Bust Economy to Renewed Growth and Competitiveness,” Washington
DC, November 2012
92nd
Street Y, Invited Speaker on “Keynes versus ‘Keynesianism,’” New York
NY, November 2012
Georgetown University Law Center Colloquium on International Trade Law,
Invited Presenter on “Bretton Woods 1.0: A Constructive Retrieval for
Sustainable Finance,” Washington DC, October 2012
Cornell / Tel Aviv Conference on “The Public Law, Private Law Distinction,”
Invited Presenter on “Private Means to Public Ends: Governments as
Market Actors,” Ithaca NY, October 2012
AALS “Professors Corner” Debate on my Eminent Domain Cure for the
Underwater Mortgage Loan Crisis, Dayton OH, October 2012
Georgetown University Law Center Colloquium on Financial Reform, Invited
Presenter on “The Macroprudential Turn,” Washington DC, September
2012
Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ Convened Hearing, “Can Eminent
Domain Save Underwater Homeowners?,” Invited Testimony on my
Eminent Domain Plan for Underwater Mortgage Loans, Washington DC,
September 2012
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Federalist Society Conference on “Freedom and Financial Markets,” Invited
Panelist, Charlottesville VA, September 2012
McGill University Conference on “Stateless Law,” Invited Speaker on
“The Lost Discipline Recovered: Macroeconomics in Financial
Regulation,” Montreal, Canada, September 2012
Cornell “Young Scholars” Conference on “Financial Reform,” Co-Organizer and
-Host, Ithaca NY, September 2012
Americans for Financial Reform Conference on Principal-Reduction as
Mortgage Crisis Solution, Invited Speaker on my Eminent Domain
“Municipal Plan” for Mortgage Refinance, Washington DC, July 2012
92nd
Street Y, Invited Speaker on “Central Banks in Monetary Economies,” New
York NY, July 2012
Roosevelt Institute, Invited Speaker on “The Role of Government in Market-
Making,” Washington DC, June 2012
Harvard Law School Progressive Property Conference, Invited Speaker on “It
Takes a Village: Municipal Eminent Domain Proceedings for Underwater
Mortgage Refinance,” Cambridge MA, May 2012
Century Foundation, Invited Speaker on “The Great Divergence: America’s
Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It,” New York NY, April
2012
Cornell Law School A.D. White Event, Co-Discussant and Moderator with
Robert Skidelsky on “Keynes, Debt, and Financial Crisis: The Return of
the Master,” Ithaca NY, April 2012
21st Annual Hyman Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and Global
Economies, “Debt, Deficits, and Financial Stability,” Invited Participant,
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College & Ford Foundation, New York
NY, April 2012
Yale Law School American Constitution Society, Invited Lecturer on the Euro
Crisis, New Haven CT, April 2012
Cornell Einaudi Center International Forum, Invited Speaker on “The EU
Financial Crisis: Implications Inside and Outside the Euro Zone,” Ithaca
NY, March 2012
92nd
Street Y, Invited Speaker on “The Federal Reserve and Central Banking,”
New York NY, March 2012
Yale Law School, Weil-Gotshal Corporate Law Roundtable, Invited Participant,
New Haven CT, March 2012
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Roosevelt Institute, Invited Speaker on “The Role of Government in American
Economic Development,” New York NY, March 2012
New York Bankers Association Legislative Conference, Invited Speaker on
authored statute, The Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act of
2012, Albany NY, February 2012
Yale Law School Colloquium on International Economic Law, Invited Lecturer
on “Global Monetary Architecture,” New Haven CT, February 2012
Chinese Society of Comparative & International Law and Soochow University
School of Law, Invited Speaker on “International Monetary and Financial
Law,” Taipei, Republic of China, January 2012
National Academy of Social Insurance Conference on “Social Insurance in a
Market Economy: Obstacles and Opportunities,” Invited Speaker,
Washington DC, January 2012
New America Foundation White Paper Release on “The Economy at Risk,” Co-
Author and Presenter with Liaquat Ahamed, Dan Alpert, Bruce Bartlett,
Leo Hindery, and Nouriel Roubini, Washington DC, December 2011
New York Press Club, Invited Speaker on the Occupy Wall Street movement,
New York, NY, November 2011
Demos Foundation Conference on Public Banking, Invited Co-Organizer and
Speaker, Washington DC, November 2011
92nd
Street Y, Invited Speaker on “The Financial Economics of J. M. Keynes,”
New York NY, November 2011
UMKC Symposium on “The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s ‘Autopsy’ of
Our Failed Financial System,” Invited Speaker on “A Fixer-Upper for
Finance,” Kansas City MO, November 2011
New America Foundation World Economic Roundtable on the Post-Bubble
Global Economy, Co-Author and Presenter of “The Way Forward:
Moving from the Post-Bubble, Post-Bust Economy to Renewed Growth
and Competitiveness,” New York NY, October 2011
Commonwealth Club, Invited Speaker on “The Way Forward” White Paper co-
Authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini, San Francisco CA,
October 2011
Yale Law School American Constitution Society “Left versus Left” Debate on
Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Legislation, Invited Speaker, New Haven
CT, October 2011
New York City Bar Association, Banking Law Committee Meeting, Invited
Author and Presenter of Draft Statute Establishing Mortgage Bridge Loan
Assistance Program, New York NY, September 2011
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92nd
Street Y, Invited Speaker on “A Jeffersonian Republic by Hamiltonian
Means,” New York NY, June 2011
Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association,
90th
Annual Meeting, Invited Participant, Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, New York NY, April 2011
Tobin Project Conference on “Regulation of the New Health Insurance Market,”
Panel Chair and Presenter on “Consumer Financial Protection,” Cornell
Law School, Ithaca NY, April 2011
20th
Annual Hyman Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World
Economies, “Financial Reform and the Real Economy,” Invited
Participant, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College & Ford Foundation,
New York NY, April 2011
Yale Law School Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable on “Assessing Dodd-
Frank,” Invited Participant, Yale Law School, New Haven CT, April 2011
Institute for Comparative Modernities Seminar on “Civilizational Politics,”
Invited Co-Presenter with Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University, Ithaca
NY, February 2011
NNIN International Winter School, Invited Seminar-Leader on Global Justice,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, January 2011
NYU Stern School of Business Paduano Seminar on Business Ethics, Invited
Speaker on “Bubbles, Busts, and Blame,” New York, November 2010
Cornell Alumni Seminar on Dodd-Frank Finance-Regulatory “Overhaul,”
Invited Speaker, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago IL, October
2010
Cornell Alumni Seminar on “The U.S. in the World Economy After the Crisis,”
Invited Speaker, Cornell Club, New York NY, October 2010
NY State Society of CPAs “Breakfast Briefing on the New Financial Law,”
Invited Speaker, New York NY, September 2010
University of Colorado Law School Symposium on Global Climate Change Law
& Policy, Invited Presenter on “Ethical Obligations to Nature,” Boulder,
Colorado, August 2010
PLI Symposium on Ethics in Banking and Financial Services, Invited Presenter,
Goldman Sachs, New York NY, July 2010
AALS Workshop on Property and Mortgage Finance in Time of Crisis, Invited
Participant, New York, New York NY, June 2010
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Istanbul Summit of Economists: Economic Policies After the Global Crisis,
Invited Keynote Speaker on “The Future of the World Economy After the
Crisis,” Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2010
Syracuse University Conference on Financial Regulation in Turbulent Times,
Invited Presenter on “Bubbles, Busts, and Blame,” Syracuse University,
Syracuse NY, April 2010
Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law Roundtable on
Corporate Criminal Liability, New Haven CT, March 2010
University of Chicago Annual Lumen Christi Conference on Economics and
Catholic Social Thought, Invited Presenter on “A Fixer-Upper for
Finance,” March 2010
University of Notre Dame Symposium on “Global Crisis: Current Issues in
International Law and Economics,” Invited Presenter on “Bubbles, Busts,
and Blame,” Notre Dame IN, March 2010
University of Connecticut Conference on Financial Crisis and International
Economic Law, Invited Presenter, Hartford CT, March 2010
Yale / Global Financial Integrity Conference on Global Financial Flows and
Human Rights, Invited Presenter on “Bretton Woods 1.0,” Department of
Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven CT, December 2009
Notre Dame School of Law Faculty Workshop, Invited Presenter on “A Fixer-
Upper for Finance,” Notre Dame IN, October 2009
Pacific McGeorge Global Symposium on Financial Crisis, Invited Presenter on
“A Fixer-Upper for Finance,” McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento CA,
October 2009
Faculty Workshop, Invited Presenter on “A Fixer-Upper for Finance,” University
of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City IA, September 2009
Second International Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets,
Invited Presenter on “Bubbles, Busts, and Blame,” Sao Paulo, Brazil, July
2009
Cornell Symposium on Property Theory, Invited Presenter on “A Fixer-Upper for
Finance,” Cornell Law School, Ithaca NY, June 2009
Property Works in Progress Conference, Invited Presenter on “A Fixer-Upper for
Finance,” University of Colorado Law School, Boulder CO, June 2009
Law & Society Panel on “The Financial Meltdown of 2009,” Invited Presenter on
“Bubbles, Busts, and Blame,” Denver CO, June 2009
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Cornell IAD Conference on “Food and Financial Crisis,” Presenter on “Bubbles,
Busts, and Blame,” Cornell Institute for African Development, Ithaca NY,
May 2009
University of Chicago Annual Lumen Christi Conference on Economics and
Catholic Social Thought, Invited Presenter on “Bailouts, Buy-Ins, and
Ballyhoo,” Chicago IL, March 2009
Ohio State University Law School Symposium on “The Credit Crunch of 2008,”
Invited Presenter on “Bailouts, Buy-Ins, and Ballyhoo,” Columbus OH,
March 2009
Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, Yale Journal on
Regulation, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable on “The Future of
Financial Regulation,” Yale Law School, New Haven CT, February 2009
Public Interest Law Symposium, Panel Moderator on Home Foreclosure Crisis,
Cornell Law School, Ithaca NY, January 2009
Faculty Retreat, Presenter on “A Fixer-Upper for Finance,” Cornell Law School,
Ithaca NY, January 2009
“Hot Topics” Panel for AALS Annual Meeting: “The Sub-prime Mortgage Crisis:
When Local Met Global,” Invited Presenter on “The Global Savings Glut
and U.S. Housing Prices,” San Diego CA, January 2009
“Hot Topics” Panel for AALS Annual Meeting: “Global Federalism and Financial
Crisis,” Invited Presenter on “The Global Savings Glut and U.S. Housing
Prices,” San Diego CA, January 2009
Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Section on Socio-
Economics, Session on Corporate Responsibility, Fiduciary Duties and
Social Responsibility, Invited Presenter on “Bailouts, Buy-Ins, and
Ballyhoo,” San Diego CA, January 2009
Cornell Law & Economics Workshop, Presenter on “Pareto versus Welfare,”
Cornell Law School, Ithaca NY, November 2008
Telluride House, Guest Speaker on “The Financial Crisis of 2008-09,” Ithaca NY,
November 2008
Kendall Continuing Education Series, Guest Speaker on “The Financial Crisis of
2008-09,” Ithaca NY, November 2008
Defining Sustainable Development Conference, Panel Moderator, Cornell Law
School, Ithaca NY, November 2008
American Society of International Law Conference on Global Economic Justice,
Invited Presenter on “Human Persons, Human Rights, and the Distributive
Structure of Global Justice,” Washington DC, November 2008.
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“Contemporary Controversies in the Global Economy” Series, Presenter on
“Sovereign Debt and Global Capital Markets,” Cornell Department of
Applied Economics & Mgmt, Ithaca NY, November 2008.
Joint New School for Social Research & Cardozo Law School Law & Philosophy
Seminar, Co-Presenter with Alain Badiou, Respondent to Badiou’s “On
Law and Justice,” New York NY, October 2008
George Washington University Symposium on Intergenerational Justice and
Sustainability, Presenter on “Justice in Time,” Washington DC, October
2008
Third Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Panel Chair and (Twice)
Panel Commentator, Cornell Law School, Ithaca NY, September 2008
Cornell Law School “Law in Context” Conference, Presenter on “Toward a
Global Shareholder Society,” Ithaca NY, June 2008
Cornell School of Policy Analysis & Management Seminar Series, Presenter on
“Pareto versus Welfare,” Ithaca NY, May 2008
Queen’s University Faculties of Law and Economics, Combined Law &
Economics, Public Economics, & Micro-Theory Workshop, Presenter on
“Pareto versus Welfare,” Kingston ON, April 2008
Endowed Annual Henry George Lecture on Economic Justice, Lecturer on “A
Jeffersonian Republic by Hamiltonian Means,” Kenyon School of
Business in the University of Scranton, Scranton PA, April 2008
Endowed Annual Clarke Lecture, Commentator, Cornell Law School, Ithaca NY,
April 2008
Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Section on Socio-
Economics, Session on Corporate Responsibility, Fiduciary Duties and
Social Responsibility, Invited Presenter on “What Kinds of Stock
Ownership Plans Should There Be?” New York NY, January 2008
American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting, Panel Moderator,
Cornell Law School, Ithaca NY, November 2007
Cardozo Law School “Law & Event” Conference Honoring Alain Badiou, Invited
Presenter on “Reflective Intensions: Two Foundational Decision Points in
Mathematics, Law, and Economics,” New York NY, November 2007
Brooklyn Law School Faculty Workshop, Invited Presenter on “For A Global
Shareholder Society,” Brooklyn NY, November 2007
Northwestern University Law School & Am. Soc’y of Int’l L. Conference on
“Corporate Human Rights Responsibility,” Chicago IL, October 2007
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“Developing the IMF, the World Bank and the Regional Development Banks”
Symposium, Presenter on “Insource the Shareholding of Outsourced
Employees: A Global Stock Ownership Plan,” University of Kansas,
Lawrence KS, October 2007
IEEE-SMC Annual Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Panel
Presenter on “Normative Economics and Nonstandard Logics,” Las Vegas
NV, August 2007
University of Minnesota Law School & Am. Soc’y of Int’l L. Conference on
“Developing Countries in the WTO,” Presenter on “Insource the
Shareholding of Outsourced Employees: A Global Stock Ownership
Plan,” Minneapolis MN, May 2007
Yale Law School Graduate Works-in-Progress Symposium, Panel Chair &
Commentator, New Haven CT, April 2007
“Directors’ & Officers’ Insurance: Shareholders’ Friend or Foe?” Conference,
Insurance Law Center, Invited Commentator, University of Connecticut
School of Law, Hartford CT, April 2007
Cornell Conference of Junior Constitutional & Public Law Scholars,
Invited Commentator, Ithaca NY, March 2007
Cornell Law School Faculty Retreat, Commentator, Ithaca NY, January 2007
Georgetown University Law Center Symposium on Socio-Economics, Invited
Presenter on “What Kinds of Stock Ownership Plans Should There Be?”
Washington DC, January 2007
Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Section on Socio-
Economics, Session on Corporate Responsibility, Fiduciary Duties and
Social Responsibility, Invited Presenter on “What Kinds of Stock
Ownership Plans Should There Be?” Washington DC, January 2007
University of Iowa College of Law Faculty Workshop, Invited Presenter on
“What Kinds of Stock Ownership Plans Should There Be?” Iowa
City IA, October 2006
Leet Symposium on “The Legal and Ethical Duties of Corporate and Securities
Lawyers,” Invited Presenter on “Valuing the Waiver,” Case School of
Law, Cleveland OH, October 2006
“Jurisgenesis: New Voices on the Law” Conference at Washington University,
Invited Presenter on “What Kinds of Stock Ownership Plans Should There
Be?,” St. Louis MO, June 2006
Cornell International Law Journal Symposium on Global Justice, Organizer &
Presenter on “Institutional Fixes versus Fixed Institutions,” Ithaca NY,
April 2006
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Carnegie Council Symposium on Global Trade and Global Justice, Invited
Presenter on “Global Trade and Global Justice: A Framework for
Analysis,” New York NY, April 2006
Cornell Law School Faculty Retreat, Presenter on “What Kinds of Stock
Ownership Plans Should There Be?” Ithaca NY, January 2006
Carnegie Council Conference on the Ethics of Sovereign Debt Relief,
Invited Presenter on “Debt Forgiveness and the Exorbitant Privilege,”
New York NY, November 2005
Insurance & Society Working Group Discussion on Insurance and Natural
Disasters Post-Katrina, Harvard Business School, Invited Presenter on
“GiveBacktheTaxCut.org,” Cambridge MA, September 2005
United Nations Development Programme Colloquium on Freedom-Oriented
Political Economy, Co-Organizer & Presenter on “A Jeffersonian
Republic by Hamiltonian Means,” New York NY, June 2005
Debate with Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party Candidate for US Presidency,
Department of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, April 2005
Telluride House, Guest Speaker on “Whose Ownership? Which Society?” Ithaca,
NY February 2005
Wharton Colloquium on International Institutions, Invited Presenter on “Three
(Potential) Pillars of Global Economic Justice,” Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, May 2004
Barnard College, Columbia University Colloquium on the Future of Political
Economy, Co-Organizer & Presenter on “Whose Ownership?
Which Society?” New York NY, April 2004
Kennedy School, Harvard University Conference on the Theory and Practice of
Equality, Panel Chair & Commentator, Cambridge MA, April 2004
American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Panel on
International Financial Institutions, Invited Presenter on “Three
(Potential) Pillars of Global Economic Justice,”, Washington DC, March
2004
Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Secretariat-
Member, Workshop-Organizer, & Presenter on “Global Regulation of
Insider Dealing,” Jesus College, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK,
September 2000
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REFEREED PUBLISHERS & JOURNALS
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
SOCIAL CHOICE & WELFARE
ECONOMICS & PHILOSOPHY
ETHICS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Referee & Editorial Board Alum)
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL POLITICS
POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW
COURSES TAUGHT
Business Organizations; Financial Institutions; International Financial
Institutions; Central Banking Seminar; Markets, Morals, and Methods Seminar
(with Kaushik Basu, Chair, Cornell Economics Department; Chief Economist,
World Bank; former Chief Economist, Ministry of Finance of India);
Jurisprudence and Legal Theory Seminar (with Robert Summers, Cornell Law
School); Financial Reform Workshop; Law and Economics of Financial
Derivatives Directed Reading Group; Law and Economics of Nonprofit
Organizations Directed Reading Group; Advanced Topics in Securities
Regulation Directed Reading Group: Hedge Funds; Financial Crisis Workshop;
One Way or Many (course on globalization taught with Roberto Unger & Richard
Freeman, at Harvard University during last doctoral year at Yale, 2004); Global
Trade Law (intensive course taught at Notre Dame Law School, March 2010);
Civil Procedure I & II (night course taught at University of Connecticut Law
School, during last doctoral year at Yale, 2003-04); Jurisprudence (seminar taught
at University of Kansas School of Law during 10th
Circuit Clerkship year, 1999-
2000).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Normative Ethical, Legal & Economic Theory; Welfare Economic & Distributive
Justice Theory; Macroeconomic, Monetary, & Financial Theory; Enterprise-
Organizational Law & Theory; Central Banking Theory & Practice; Philosophy of
Action & Agency, Individual & Collective; Financial Intermediation &
Regulation; International Economic, Monetary, & Financial Law; Global Justice
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& International Law; Applications of Nonstandard Logics & Set Theory to
Problems in Financial, Welfare Economic & Normative Political Theory
DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED
Anat Beck, Law (entrepreneurial business organizational forms)
(Other Committee Members: Jack Barceló, Law; Ted Eisenberg, Law)
Xiang Cai, Johnson School of Management (corporate finance)
(Other Committee Members: Maureen O’Hara, Johnson Graduate School
of Business; Rob Mason, Economics)
Christopher Casillas, Government (constitutional political economy)
(Other Committee Members: Ted Lowi, Government; Richard Bensel,
Government)
Simon Cotton, Government & Philosophy (global justice)
(Other Committee Members: Isaac Kramnick, Government; Richard
Miller, Philosophy)
Gregory Demirchyan, Philosophy (global justice)
(Other Committee Members: Richard Miller, Philosophy; Henry Shue,
Philosophy)
Luwam Dirar, Law (law & economics of EU-African trade relations)
(Other Committee Members: Muna Ndulo, Law; Chantal Thomas, Law)
Chun Dongwook, Law (global justice and international patent law)
(Other Committee Members: Laura Underkuffler, Law; Oskar Liivak,
Law)
Sabrina Germain, Law (global justice, health care rights, & insurance)
(Other Committee Members: Muna Ndulo, Law; Chantal Thomas, Law)
Hanna Haile, Law (transnational justice and environmental law_
(Other Committee Members: Muna Ndulo, Law; Sital Kilantry, Law)
Marjorie Mpundu, Law (performances of international lending institutions)
(Other Committee Members: Muna Ndulo, Law; Jack Barceló, Law)
Sergio Muro, Law (game theoretics of insolvency law)
(Other Committee Members: Ted Eisenberg, Law; Michael Heise, Law)
Han Wooyong, Law (genetically modified organisms in WTO law)
(Other Committee Members: Chantal Thomas, Law; Jack Barceló, Law)
Dunia Zongwe, Law (resources for infrastructure contracts)
(Other Committee Members: Muna Ndulo, Law; Chantal Thomas, Law)
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Brad Bozidar Zukovic, English & Philosophy (rhetoric & mathematical logic)
(Other Committee Members: Bruno Basteels, English)
CORNELL FACULTY SERVICE
Faculty Secretary, 2004-07; Career Planning and Placement Committee (Chair),
2011-; Librarian Search Committee, 2010-11; Administrative Committee, 2009-
11; Program Review Committee, 2006-08; Public Service Committee, 2004-11;
Faculty Co-Advisor to CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, 2004-; Faculty
Co-Sponsor of Student Business Law Society, 2004-; Faculty Co-Sponsor of
Cornell Chapter of St. Thomas More Society, 2008-; Cornell University Rhodes
& Marshal Scholarship Endorsement Committee, 2009-; Secretary for “The
Circle” Cornell Faculty Discussion Group, 2010-11; Member of “The Circle”
Cornell Faculty Discussion Group, 2009-; Faculty Fellow, Cornell Telluride
House, 2011-.
RECENT MEDIA APPEARANCES
Utica Observer-Dispatch, May 2013, on Utica, NY’s plan to take abandoned
homes via eminent domain under Title 19-A of the NY real estate code
Forbes, April 2013, on revival of my and associates’ eminent domain plan for
underwater mortgage loans in California and Nevada
Salon, “David Stockman’s Alien Abduction,” April 4, 2013, Robert Hockett
OpEd on David Stockman’s new book and contemporaneous New York
Times guest column
Liberty Street Economics (New York Fed weblog), February 2013, on my and
associates’ eminent domain plan for underwater mortgage loans
Wall Street Journal, February 2013, on my and associates’ eminent domain plan
for underwater mortgage loans
WHCU, February 2013, on what was pleasantly surprising in and what was
missing from the President’s State of the Union Message
Reuters, January 2013, on Brockton MA’s interest in my and associates’ eminent
domain plan for underwater mortgage loans
Mother Jones, January 2013, on my and associates’ eminent domain plan for
underwater mortgage loans
National Law Journal, January 2013, on Bank of America’s settlement of suit
brought by GSEs
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The New Yorker, December 2012, on my and associates’ eminent domain plan for
underwater mortgage loans
Milwaukee Journal, December 2012, on Wisconsin state venture capital fund and
SEC ‘pay to play’ rules
The Street, December 2012, on what is escaping notice during the so-called ‘fiscal
cliff’ negations in DC
WHCU, December 2012, on what is escaping notice during the so-called ‘fiscal
cliff’ negations in DC
Korea Television, December 2012, on US macroeconomic conditions and the
‘fiscal cliff’
Law 360, November 2012, on President Obama’s next Treasury Secretary and the
most important issues likely to confront him or her
Correio Braziliense, November 2012, on the 2012 US electoral results and ‘fiscal
cliff’
America Radio News, October 2012, on Department of Justice Suit against Bank
of America
EFE Radio Spain, October 2012, on global financial conditions twenty-five
years after “Black Monday”
China Radio International, October 2012, on US economic conditions and
fiscal policy
Voice of America, October 2012, on global economic conditions and the G20
EFE Radio Spain, September 2012, on global economic conditions four years
post-Lehman
China Radio International, September 2012, on US economic conditions and
Federal Reserve monetary policy
Al Jazeera Television, September 2012, on the still ongoing US mortgage crisis
NBC News Economy Watch, August 2012, on my and associates’ municipal
eminent domain plan for underwater home mortgage loans
Sacramento Bee, August 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain
plan for underwater home mortgage loans
Al Jazeera, August 2012, on significance of Republican Party’s choice of
Convention speakers
Fox Business TV, August 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain
plan for underwater home mortgage loans
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Bloomberg Law TV with Lee Pachia, July 2012, on my and associates’ municipal
eminent domain plan for underwater home mortgage loans
CNBC’s “Closing Bell with Maria Bartaromo,” July 2012, on my and associates’
municipal eminent domain plan for underwater home mortgage loans
Time Magazine, July 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain plan
for underwater home mortgage loans
Bloomberg Business Week, July 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent
domain plan for underwater home mortgage loans
New York Times, July 2012, “Housing’s Last Chance?,” Joe Nocera column on
my and associates’ municipal eminent domain plan for underwater home
mortgage loans
Los Angeles Times, July 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain
plan for underwater home mortgage loans
Wall Street Journal, July 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain
plan for underwater home mortgage loans
New York Times, June 2012, “Real Estate’s Collective Action Problem,” Robert
Shiller OpEd on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain plan for
underwater home mortgage loans
Reuters, June 2012, “It Takes a Village,” Robert Hockett OpEd on my and
associates’ municipal eminent domain plan for underwater home mortgage
loans
Albany Times-Union, June 2012, “A Bridge to Viable Mortgages,” Robert
Hockett OpEd with Michael Campbell on my draft bridge loan statute
under consideration by NY Legislature
Associated Press, June 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain
plan for underwater home mortgage loans
Financial Times, June 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain
plan for underwater home mortgage loans
Reuters, June 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain
plan for underwater home mortgage loans
San Bernadino Press-Enterprise, June 2012, on my and associates’ municipal
eminent domain plan for underwater home mortgage loans
Bloomberg View, June 2012, “Save Europe’s Marriage with a Trial Separation,”
Robert Hockett OpEd proposing a temporary two-euro solution to EMU
crisis
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New York Times, June 2012, on Fed implementation of Basle III capital
standards
Law 360, June 2012, on Fed implementation of Basle III capital standards
American Banker, May 2012, “A Bridge from Normal to Normal,” Robert
Hockett OpEd with Michael Campbell on our Home Mortgage Bridge
Loan Assistance Act of 2012, up for consideration by New York
legislature
Law 360, May 2012, on implications of JPMorgan trading losses for Republican
efforts to repeal Dodd-Frank Act
Chicago Sun-Times, May 2012, on debt forgiveness in Europe and the US
Law 360, May 2012, on J.P. Morgan Chase proprietary trading losses
Law 360, May 2012, on Bank of America versus MBIA litigation
Daily Record, May 2012, on pro bono requirements for bar admission
Washington Post, April 2012, on being named a new Century Foundation
Fellow
MSN/Money, April 2012, on calls by Paul Krugman, Ken Rogoff, and others for
Fed to adopt higher inflation target
Buffalo News, April 2012, on my role in helping to develop Representative
Brian Higgins’s Nation Building Here at Home Act of 2012, proposed in
Congress mid-month
Cornell Chronicle, April 2012, on my and Robert Frank’s, as well as my and
Daniel Alpert’s and Nouriel Roubini’s recent co-authored work on
designing workable economic recovery strategy
Law 360, April 2012, on FDIC rulemaking
Law 360, April 2012, on House Republican efforts to undermine FDIC resolution
Authority under Dodd-Frank
Law 360, April 2012, on delayed implementation of the Volcker Rule
Washington Post, March 2012, on risk implications of Deutsche Bank re-
organization under the Bank Holding Company Act
Compliance Week, March 2012, on capital market implications of “JOBS” Act
under consideration in Congress
Law 360, March 2012, on risk implications of Deutsche Bank re-
organization under the Bank Holding Company Act
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Law 360, March 2012, on Federal Reserve’s latest round of bank “stress test”
results
Law 360, February 2012, on U.S. commercial bank conversions from national
to state charters
National Catholic Reporter, February 2012, on recent “rights of conscience”
legislation proposed in Congress
Reuters, February 2012, on New York City municipal bond controversy
CNN, January 2012, on wealth- and income-distribution, campaign finance law,
and the 2012 electoral season
Free Speech Radio News, January 2012, on wealth- and income-distribution and
the 2012 elections
Fairness Doctrine LeftRight & Uncensored Radio, January 2012, on Republican
Presidential candidates’ “offshore” banking
Foreign Affairs, January 2012, Charles Kupchan article, “The Democratic
Malaise,” citing “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-authored with Dan
Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
Smart Money, January 2012, on U.S. Supreme Court’s CompuCredit Corp. (credit
card arbitration) decision
WHCU, January 2012, on Republican Presidential candidate’s “vulture
capitalism” accusations against Gov. Mitt Romney
MSN Money, December 2011, on comparisons between today’s economic and
financial difficulties and those of 1920’s and -30’s
Fairness Doctrine LeftRight & Uncensored Radio, December 2011, on President
Obama’s Osawatomie speech
WWRL Liberal Talk Radio, December 2011, on President Obama’s Osawatomie
(“Teddy Roosevelt”) Speech
New Left Review, November/December 2011, Robin Blackburn article, “Crisis
2.0,” citing “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-authored with Dan
Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
New York Daily News, November 2011, “Mr. Bloomberg, Tear Down This Wall,”
Robert Hockett OpEd on Mayor Bloomberg’s Eviction of the Zuccotti
Park “Occupiers”
New York Times, November 2011, Bill Keller Column noting “The Way
Forward,” White Paper co-authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
Christian Science Monitor, November 2011, “field notes” on mid-month Occupy
Wall Street developments
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Voice of America, November 2011, on the euro Crisis
New York Times, October 2011, Joe Nocera Column on “The Way Forward,”
White Paper co-authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
The Atlantic Monthly, October 2011, James Fallows on “The Way Forward,”
White Paper co-authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
The New Republic, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-
authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
Forbes, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-
authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
Bloomberg Television, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-
authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
Reuters Television, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-
authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
NPR’s “On Point,” October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-
authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
The Daily Beast, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-
authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
Business Insider, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-
authored with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
Reuters Radio, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-authored
with Dan Alpert and Nouriel Roubini
Christian Science Monitor, October 2011, “field notes” on Occupy Wall Street
movement
Gen Y Radio, September 2011, on the role of the Federal Reserve System in
American economic governance
American Lawyer, August 2011, on fraudulent conveyance suit against insurer
MBIA
NPR (WHCU), July 2011, on U.S. debt-ceiling dispute
Daily Record, July 2011, on U.S. Supreme Court’s business and financial law
decisions, 2011
Reuters, June 2011, on Senate investigations of Goldman-Sachs
Christian Science Monitor, June 2011, on home-ownership and -rental trends
post-crisis
Il Foglio, May 2011, on implications of Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrest
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Reuters, April 2011, on AIG lawsuit against ICP Asset Management and Moore
Moore Capital Management
CNBC’s Insana Quotient with Ron Insana, April 2011, on White House and
Congressional federal budget proposals
Dow Jones Financial News, April 2011, on possible Barclay’s Bank move to
U.S.
CNBC’s Insana Quotient with Ron Insana, March 2011, on Public Infrastructure
Investment, Government Budget Deficits, and Economic Growth
NPR (WHCU), March 2011, on Public Infrastructure Investment and Government
Budget Deficits, and Economic Growth
NPR (WHCU), February 2011, on Group of 20 Finance Ministers meeting in
Paris on global currency arrangements (picked up by various financial
news outlets)
NPR (WSKG), February 2011, on renewed public interest in the U.S. Constitution
in connection with recent litigation of health insurance reform legislation
KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, January 2011, on public investment projects
referenced in President Obama’s State of the Union Message
Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” program, January 2011, on new website – “Give It
Back for Jobs” – that I established with Jacob Hacker and Daniel
Markovits in response to extension of Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy
Huffington Post, December 2010, on new website – “Give It
Back for Jobs” – that I established with Jacob Hacker and Daniel
Markovits in response to extension of Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy
Associated Press, December 2010, on new website – “Give It
Back for Jobs” – that I established with Jacob Hacker and Daniel
Markovits in response to extension of Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy
(picked up by Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CBS, and other web media
outlets)
ABC News, December 2010, on new website – “Give It
Back for Jobs” – that I established with Jacob Hacker and Daniel
Markovits in response to extension of Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy
NPR’s “All Things Considered” and affiliate WRVO FM, December 2010, on
new website – “Give It Back for Jobs” – I established with Jacob Hacker
and Daniel Markovits in response to extension of Bush era tax cuts
Ithaca Journal, December 2010, on new website – “Give It
Back for Jobs” – that I established with Jacob Hacker and Daniel
Markovits in response to extension of Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy
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KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, December 2010, on new website – “Give It
Back for Jobs” – that I established with Jacob Hacker and Daniel
Markovits in response to extension of Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy
KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, November 2010, on G-20 meeting, global
currency relations, and new “Basle III” capital accords
KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, October 2010, on project then conducting
with Robert Frank on stimulative effects of public investment in
infrastructure projects
Fox Business News, September 2010, on Dodd-Frank’s FOIA exemption for
SEC financial institution oversight documents
Cornell Enterprise (Johnson Business School Magazine), September 2010, on
Dodd-Frank finance-regulatory overhaul
KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, September 2010, on continuing slump in
real estate market
Associated Press, August 2010, on Virginia lawsuit against federal health
insurance reform law
KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, August 2010, on new Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau
Wall Street Journal, July 2010, on Goldman Sachs suit settlement
Global Finance, July 2010, on Spanish debt difficulties
WHCU News Radio, July 2010, on Dodd-Frank bill
NPR On the Money, June 2010, on finance-regulatory reform
American Banker, June 2010, on Dodd bill
KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, June 2010, on Dodd bill
Wall Street Journal, May 2010, on possible settlement of SEC suit against
Goldman Sachs
New York Times, May 2010, on Greek sovereign debt crisis and its impact on
the Euro, the Dollar, and the global financial markets (picked up by Dow
Jones Update, Nasdaq, Global Finance, and other news outlets)
ABC News Radio, May 2010, on Greek sovereign debt crisis and the Euro
The Street.com, May 2010, on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, May 2010, on finance-regulatory reform
legislation
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WHCU News Radio, May 2010, on Greek sovereign debt crisis and the Euro
Bloomberg Markets Magazine, May 2010, on Goldman Sachs’s troubles
Wall Street Journal, April 2010, on DOJ and SEC investigations of Goldman
Sachs
The Street.com, April 2010, on financial derivatives for “Main Street”
NPR Weekday, April 2010, on Goldman Sachs hearings and finance-regulatory
reform legislation
KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, April 2010, on SEC suit against
Goldman-Sachs
American Banker, April 2010, on pending finance-regulatory reform
legislation
Financial Planning, April 2010, on pending finance-regulatory reform
legislation
Kiplinger Letter, March 2010, on pending finance-regulatory reform
legislation
ABC, CBS, Bloomberg media conference, December 2009, on pending health
insurance reform legislation (with other Cornell professors)
American Banker, December 2009, on finance-regulatory reform
Dow Jones Newswire, October 2009, on financial aspects of health care
reform debate
ITV News (UK), September 2009, on financial aspects of health care
reform debate
Cornell Media Luncheon, September 2009, on financial aspects of health care
reform debate
Public Ethics Radio, September 2009, on global justice and financial crisis
Banking New York, August 2009, on Obama administration’s proposed finance-
regulatory reforms
National Public Radio, March 2009, on consumer credit law reform
WHCU Radio, November 2008, on consumer bankruptcy and financial crisis
National Public Radio Station WXXI, October 2008, on financial crisis
Bloomberg News, September 2008, on AIG takeover
Banking New York, July 2008, on Attorney General Cuomo and NY financial
reform
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Bloomberg News, June 2008, on Triad Guaranty crisis
WEBSITES, REGULAR COLMUNS, & WEBLOGS
Benzinga business/financial news website: http://www.benzinga.com/ (columnist
since 2010)
GiveItBackforJobs: http://giveitbackforjobs.com/ (co-founder with Jacob Hacker
and Daniel Markovits, since 2010)
GiveBacktheTaxCut: http://www.givebackthetaxcut.org (co-founder with Daniel
Markovits, assisted by Peter Orszag, 2005-07)
Dorf on Law: http://www.dorfonlaw.org/ (with Michael Dorf, Sherry Colb, Neil
Buchanan, and others, since 2009)
Mirror of Justice: http://www.mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/ (with Rick Garnett,
Robert George, Michael Perry, Steve Shiffrin, and others, since 2009)
ReligiousLeftLaw: http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/ (co-founder with Steve
Shiffrin, Eduardo Peñalver, and Michael Perry, since 2010)
SSRN PAGE
http://ssrn.com/author=602726
LANGUAGES
English (native tongue); French & Spanish (fluent written & spoken);
German, Italian, & Latin (proficient written & spoken);
Mandarin (beginning)