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ROBERT C. HOCKETT Cornell Law School

316 Myron Taylor Hall

Ithaca NY 14853 USA

[email protected]

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).

http://www.cceia.org/resources/articles_papers_reports/5359.html#3

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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



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



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)


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)


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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


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Bloomberg Law TV with Lee Pachia, July 2012, on my and associates’ municipal


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


Wall Street Journal, July 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain


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


Financial Times, June 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain


Reuters, June 2012, on my and associates’ municipal eminent domain


San Bernadino Press-Enterprise, June 2012, on my and associates’ municipal


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-


Bloomberg Television, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-


Reuters Television, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-


NPR’s “On Point,” October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-


The Daily Beast, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-


Business Insider, October 2011, on “The Way Forward,” White Paper co-


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



Associated Press, December 2010, on new website – “Give It



(picked up by Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CBS, and other web media

outlets)

ABC News, December 2010, on new website – “Give It



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



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KFNN 1510 Business for Breakfast, December 2010, on new website – “Give It



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)

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