Introduction Shortly after the financial crash that spiraled into the Great Depression, Congress passed extensive laws governing securities and securities markets.[1] These securities laws protect investors by imposing disclosure requirements …
Introduction I would like to express my profound gratitude to Professor Erik Gerding and the editors of the University of Colorado Law Review for organizing and hosting the May 2021 …
The narrative that emerged in the aftermath of the COVID-19 financial crisis has focused on nonbank financial intermediation as the primary vulnerability that plagued financial markets starting in March of 2020 …
Introduction Art Wilmarth quips that he’s like “your crazy uncle.”[1] Rather than an uncle (crazy or otherwise), most scholars of financial regulation think of him as the “father” of banking …
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When the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act authorized financial conglomeration in 1999, Professor Arthur Wilmarth, Jr. presciently predicted that diversified financial holding companies would try to exploit their bank subsidiaries by transferring government …
PDF: Patricia A. McCoy,* Foreword: Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., A Scholar of Uncommon Conviction, Integrity, and Boldness The year 1992, when I entered academe, was a paradoxical time to become …
Introduction Life in the San Luis Valley of Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains is often hard. The Valley is located in Costilla County, one of the poorest counties in the …
Introduction Anyone who has visited the Pacific island nation of Palau[1] in the last few years has likely seen the in-flight video titled The Giant; it opens with a child …
Much of environmental law and policy rests on an unspoken premise that accomplishing environmental goals may not require addressing the root causes of environmental problems. For example, rather than regulating …
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Our country’s ever-growing exposure to flood risk has been the target of policy reform for decades. To many experts, it is clear that we must stop subsidizing flood-prone development and …
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