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University of Michigan’s Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, H.V. Jagadish recently coordinated the publication of a white paper on the research challenges posed by big data.  …"While the...

Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, a new textbook by the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy’s Faculty Director, Professor Michael Barr, was published by Foundation Press in June 2016 and is now available!  Barr co-authored the textbook...

Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneur’s Project Research Assistant Aaron Ngo recently published an article on Medium about how much he is learning about the social impact this type of support can provide for Detroit Entrepreneurs. From Ngo’s...

“The financial crisis of 2008 crushed families, businesses, and the real economy, and laid bare core failings of the financial system.  For the one in seven Americans who lives in poverty, or the millions of Americans who live in fear of falling out...

On the morning of President Obama’s final State of the Union speech, CFLP Faculty Director Michael Barr discusses the unfinished work of financial reform in an op-ed posted on cnbc.com: In the past, the financial system has contributed to...

On October 22-23, 2015, more than 250 regulators, policymakers, financial market participants, and academic researchers from a broad range of disciplines gathered in Ann Arbor to explore how methods from diverse fields can be used to better...

In testimony submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs today, Professor Michael S. Barr argues that the U.S. should not let Wall Street’s arguments for loopholes in global enforcement hamstring meaningful reform....

In testimony submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs today, Professor Michael S. Barr argues that the U.S. should not let Wall Street’s arguments for loopholes in global enforcement hamstring meaningful reform....

By Libby Benton Is the international financial regulatory system up to the task of overseeing the global financial system? This question, posed by Michigan Law professor Michael S. Barr, in his recent article “Who’s in Charge of Global Finance?”...

By Michael S. Barr & Kate Andrias  Last week we filed an amicus brief in MetLife v. Financial Stability Oversight Council on behalf of fifteen professors of law and finance with our co-authors, Professors Robert Jackson and Gillian Metzger of...

By Michael S. Barr & Kate Andrias    Last week we filed an amicus brief in MetLife v. Financial Stability Oversight Council on behalf of fifteen professors of law and finance with our co-authors, Professors Robert Jackson and Gillian...

The U.S. has an enviable entrepreneurial culture and vibrant capital markets, which help foster small business formation, create jobs, and increase economic growth. But, at the same time, we need to do more to ensure minority and women entrepreneurs...

The U.S. has an enviable entrepreneurial culture and vibrant capital markets, which help foster small business formation, create jobs, and increase economic growth. But, at the same time, we need to do more to ensure minority and women entrepreneurs...