Steven Schwarcz
Distinguished Professor of Law & Business, Duke University Steven L. Schwarcz is the Stanley A. Star Distinguished Professor of Law & Business at Duke University and founding director of Duke’s Global Financial Markets Center. His areas of research and scholarship include insolvency and bankruptcy law, international finance, capital markets and risk.
About this speaker
He holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering (summa cum laude) and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School. Prior to joining Duke, he was a partner at two of the world’s leading law firms, Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. He also helped to pioneer the field of asset securitization, and his book Structured Finance: A Guide to the Principles of Asset Securitization is one of the most widely used texts in that field. Schwarcz has also been the Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Distinguished Visiting Professor at University College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws, the MacCormick Fellow at The University of Edinburgh School of Law, the Liberty Fellow at the University of Leeds School of Law, and an advisor to the United Nations.
He has testified before the U.S. Congress on topics including systemic risk, securitization, credit rating agencies, and financial regulation, and has advised several U.S. and foreign governmental agencies on the financial crisis and shadow banking. His article “Systemic Risk” (Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, No. 1) was the second-most-cited law review article of 2008; he also has been recognized as the world’s second-most-cited scholar, 2010-2014 and again 2013-2017, in commercial, contract, and bankruptcy law.
Schwarcz is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, a founding member of the International Insolvency Institute, former Business Law Advisor to the American Bar Association, a member of P.R.I.M.E. Finance’s Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance, and Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).