About Us
The Center on Law and Finance advances research on how law interacts with and shapes financial systems. The Center also connects this research to the real world. Continuing the Law School’s commitment to the practical application of legal theory, the Center holds events that foster a meaningful dialogue between academics, practitioners, and judges.
Editors: Anup Malani & M. Todd Henderson
Professor Anthony Casey had just launched the Law School’s Center on Law and Finance when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020. He had two events in the works: an in-person conference on judicial valuation and another on international insolvency; the valuation conference, scheduled for March 2020, was supposed to be the Center’s public debut.
The fate of a multi-billion-dollar settlement addressing the devastating opioid crisis rested on a single paragraph in the Bankruptcy Code. At stake was not only justice for thousands of victims but also the broader ability of the courts to use bankruptcy as a mechanism to resolve mass-tort claims swiftly and equitably.
Professor Anthony J. Casey has been elected to the National Bankruptcy Conference.