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Professor Anna Gelpern and Professor Adam Levitin will host a Law and Macroeconomics conference at Georgetown Law, featuring a number of top law and economics scholars from Georgetown and beyond.

Professor Anna Gelpern, Professor Adam Levitin To Host Groundbreaking Law and Macroeconomics Conference at Georgetown Law

September 19, 2019 Business & Financial Regulation

Professor Anna Gelpern and Professor Adam Levitin met on a bus in Connecticut, going to an academic conference for junior scholars in May 2008. Levitin, a bankruptcy, commercial law, and financial regulation expert, had joined the Georgetown Law faculty the year before. Levitin would later recruit Gelpern, then a law professor at American University, to Georgetown Law in 2013.

Steven Maijoor, chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, speaks with Georgetown Law Professor Chris Brummer in Gewirz Student Center on June 12.

Professor Chris Brummer, Director of the Institute of International Economic Law, Talks Fintech with ESMA Chair Steven Maijoor

June 19, 2019 Business & Financial Regulation International & Comparative Law International Economic Law

In a terrific opportunity for Georgetown students and alumni — as well as Washington’s policymaking and regulatory communities — Steven Maijoor, Europe’s Capital Markets Chief, provided a one-on-one interview with Professor Chris Brummer on the…

Professor Chris Brummer led conversations with officials including Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting during Georgetown Law's Fintech Week.

Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law Hosts Second Annual Fintech Week

November 14, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation International Economic Law Tax Law

Advances in financial technology are changing market and regulatory ecosystems in ways unimaginable a generation ago. These new developments offer exciting opportunities as well as enormous challenges — and Georgetown Law’s Institute of International…

Professor Chris Brummer with Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC, at the start of IIEL's "Fintech Week" on November 5.

Professor Chris Brummer: Georgetown Law’s Fintech Guru on IIEL’s “Fintech Week,” Cryptoassets and More

November 5, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Faculty International Economic Law

Professor Chris Brummer’s work in fintech is growing almost as exponentially as the field: including research and a “Cryptocurrencies, Initial Coin Offerings and the Law Seminar.” The course was recognized by CoinDesk in its ranking of Georgetown…

Federal Trade Commission Chair Joseph Simons (L’83) at an event honoring Robert Pitofsky on September 13, when the FTC held hearings at Georgetown Law. The FTC returns for a second day of hearings on November 1.

A Conversation with FTC Chair Joseph Simons (L’83)

October 30, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Legislation and Administrative Law Our Alumni

Joseph Simons (L’83) continued Georgetown Law’s proud history with the Federal Trade Commission when he was sworn in as FTC chair on May 1, 2018.

Professor Sheila Foster at "Celebrating Commons Scholarship" on October 5.

Professor Sheila Foster: Celebrating the (Urban) Commons

October 16, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Environmental Law Technology, Communication, and Intellectual Property

“Celebrating Commons Scholarship” was the theme of a conference at Georgetown Law October 5-6, where scholars explored economics, inequality, stewardship, housing, development, the environment and more in the context of commons theory.

Professor Emma Coleman Jordan organized the September 28 conference examining lessons learned from the 2007-2008 financial crisis.

Georgetown Law Hosts “Ten Years After the Financial Crisis”

October 9, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Faculty

Ten years after the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, our collective memory of the damage caused by the crisis has faded.

In Memoriam: Dean Emeritus Robert Pitofsky

October 7, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Faculty

Robert Pitofsky, who served as dean of Georgetown Law from 1983 to 1989 and the 54th chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 1995 to 2001, died October 6. He was 88.

Professor Emma Coleman Jordan hosts a conference, "Ten Years After the Financial Crisis," at Georgetown Law September 28.

Financial Crises and Court Appointments: Have We Learned Nothing? A Conversation with Professor Emma Coleman Jordan

September 24, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Faculty Feminism & Gender Studies

They say the more things change, the more they stay the same. Whether that’s the case concerning the national economy will be the topic of a day-long conference at Georgetown Law on Friday, September 28. “Ten Years After the Financial Crisis: Closing Loopholes and Avoiding Blindspots,” with a keynote by Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC, will attempt to answer the question of whether the economy is headed for another fall.

Federal Trade Commission Chair Joseph Simons (L’83) opened a day of FTC hearings at Georgetown Law September 13 on the subject of competition and consumer protection.

From Dean Emeritus Robert Pitofsky to Joseph Simons (L’83), Georgetown Law Celebrates Tradition with Federal Trade Commission Hearings

September 14, 2018 Business & Financial Regulation Our Alumni

When Joseph Simons (L’83) graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law in 1983, times were tough for antitrust lawyers.

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