Financial Regulation: Political, Administrative, and Constitutional Accountability

December 9, 2016

This Conference is certified for 5.5 credits of Virginia CLE

8:45 – 10:00 am – Panel 1: The Fog of “Systemic Risk” – Click to watch the video of the full panel!

Elizabeth P. Papez, Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP 
M. Todd Henderson, Michael J. Marks Professor of Law and Mark Claster Mamolen Research Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School
Adam J. White, Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution
Peter J. Wallison, Senior Fellow and Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Moderator: Brian P. Brooks, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Fannie Mae

10:15 – 11:45 am – Panel 2: Problems with Regulation by Deal – Click to watch the video of the full panel!

Reginald J. Brown, Partner and Chair of the Financial Institutions Group, WilmerHale LLP
Steven Davidoff Solomon, Professor of Law, Berkeley School of Law, University of California
Heath P. Tarbert, Partner, Allen & Overy LLP
Bimal V. Patel, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP

Moderator: Michael Greve, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

11:45 am – 1:00 pm – Keynote Address – Click to watch the video of the keynote address!

Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, Director, Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law

1:00 – 2:15 pm – Panel 3: Constitutional Problems in Financial Regulation – Click to watch the video of the full panel! 

Peter Conti-Brown, Assistant Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Ambassador C. Boyden Gray, Founding Partner, Boyden Gray & Associates
Geoffrey Parsons Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law and Director, Center for Financial Institutions, New York University School of Law
Neomi Rao, Director, Center for the Study of the Administrative State and Associate Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Moderator: Brian Callanan, Staff Director and General Counsel, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

2:30 – 3:45 pm – Panel 4: Fintech and Financial Federalism – Click to watch the video of the full panel!

Jerry Brito, Executive Director, Coin Center
Kathryn Judge, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
J.W. Verret, Associate Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Moderator: Joseph Colangelo, President, Consumers’ Research

Discussed Research Papers

• The Dealmaking State: Executive Power In The Trump Administration
  Steven Davidoff Solomon, Professor of Law, Berkeley School of Law, University of California
• Taking Systemic Risk Seriously in Financial Regulation
  M. Todd Henderson, Michael J. Marks Professor of Law and Mark Claster Mamolen Research Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School
• Regulation: Political, Administrative, and Constitutional Accountability
  Geoffrey Parsons Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law and Director, Center for Financial Institutions, New York University School of Law
• Dual Non-Banking System for Fintech
  J.W. Verret, Associate Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
• Too Big for Administrative Law? FSOC Designations and the Fog of “Systemic Risk”
  Adam J. White, Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution