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Do Lawyers And Law Professors Have Any Comparative Advantages In Opining On Financial Regulation Reform?, Kenneth Anderson
Do Lawyers And Law Professors Have Any Comparative Advantages In Opining On Financial Regulation Reform?, Kenneth Anderson
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American University, WCL Research Paper 10-22Abstract:This short essay addresses a worry sometimes at the back of the minds of financial lawyers and law-and-finance scholars seeking to intervene in the debate over financial regulation reform in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-09. As lawyers and law professors, what - if anything - do we have to contribute to the debate? Are the fundamental questions of the financial crisis not economic in a professional and disciplinary sense? Questions that require formal disciplinary skills and training in economics in order to be able formulate positions on the fundamental issues, in which …