June 25, 2013
by Annelise Riles
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How can the Conflict of Laws achieve for international financial regulation what international agreements have so far failed to achieve? A short summary of my forthcoming paper in the Cornell International Law Journal on the subject, in Risk&Regulation Magazine, makes the … Continue reading
May 1, 2013
by Annelise Riles
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In its latest newsletter, the Tobin Project covered the online publication of my recent working paper in which I examine the relevance of “New Governance” regulatory theory to the challenges faced by the Financial Stability board in regulating systematically important … Continue reading
March 5, 2013
by Annelise Riles
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Last weekend we convened a quite exciting conference on “The Changing Politics of Central Banks” sponsored by the Cornell International Law Journal (symposium website). The focus on central banks as political actors is clearly timely given the growing awareness of the … Continue reading
February 20, 2013
by Annelise Riles
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Talk: “Market Collaboration” Monday, February 25, 2013: Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA) 4:00pm-6:00pm: Wasserstein (WCC) 3016, Harvard Law School. The full list of talks and events is available here
October 2, 2012
by Annelise Riles
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One of the big financial news stories of the week was that the US government will get its money back on the sale of AIG stocks. There is actually a debate about whether this is an accurate description of the state … Continue reading
January 25, 2012
by Annelise Riles
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Most of the chatter about financial regulation in the blogosphere focuses on the issues of the moment. But what are the big questions? What does all the debate about the detail add up to? To me, the big question is … Continue reading
January 18, 2012
by Annelise Riles
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In my earlier post I discussed some ways we need to broaden the subject of financial regulation. Doing so will also require broadening the methods we use to study financial markets. It is exciting to see the proliferation of new methods and … Continue reading
January 9, 2012
by Annelise Riles
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This morning I participated in a fantastic panel at the American Association of Law Schools organized by Anna Gelpern and Eric Gerding on the state of legal scholarship about financial institutions. The question the organizers asked is, what is the … Continue reading
July 7, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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As we look ahead toward how we can do a better job of preventing, or at least lessening the effects of the next financial crisis, I think we can all agree that the more information regulators have about the real … Continue reading
April 21, 2011
by Annelise Riles
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Earlier this month, Stephen Lubben at Dealbook posted an interesting piece querying whether there may be hidden costs associated with giving banks huge breaks in their capitalization requirements under Basel III for close-out netting, the clause in the ISDA master … Continue reading