For Immediate Release
September 4, 2000

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Professor Levitin

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center Professor Adam Levitin has been named the inaugural recipient of the Walton H. Hamilton Prize for Outstanding Scholarship by the Yale Journal on Regulation (JREG). The award is presented annually "to the author of the article most likely to have a significant impact on the study and understanding of regulatory policy."

In "Hydraulic Regulation: Regulating Credit Markets Upstream," published this summer in the Yale Journal on Regulation, Levitin analyzes the current shortcomings of consumer protection in financial services and proposes an approach that would permit states to engage in consumer-protection regulation of federally chartered banks.

Levitin specializes in bankruptcy and commercial law. Before joining the Georgetown Law faculty, he practiced in the business finance and restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York. Levitin also served as Special Counsel for Mortgage Affairs for the Congressional Oversight Panel and as law clerk to Judge Jane Richards Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. His research focuses on financial institutions and their role in the consumer and business credit economy, including mortgage finance, credit cards, securitization, and bankruptcy claims trading. He teaches bankruptcy, commercial law, contracts, and structured finance at the Law Center.

Walton H. Hamilton was a professor at Yale Law School from 1928 to 1948. In the 1930s, he was a frequent adviser on New Deal economic policy. He eventually left Yale to become deputy to Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold at the new antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and thereafter, joined Arnold’s newly-created Washington, D.C., law firm, Arnold, Fortas & Porter.

About Georgetown University Law Center 

Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world's premier law schools. It has the largest full-time faculty in the nation and is pre-eminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end. With this principle in mind, Georgetown Law has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of ideas and the pursuit of academic excellence. It brings together an extraordinarily varied group of teachers, scholars and practitioners, as well as an outstanding student body representing more than 60 countries.