Duke Faculty associated with the Global Capital Markets Center have been actively involved in addressing the current financial crisis. Here are just some of their scholarship and other activities:
Law Professor James Cox
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Panel Discussion, The Causes, Cures and Future of the Credit Crisis, at The Institutional Investors’ Forum, New York City, October 24, 2008
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Panel Discussion, The Subprime Market Crisis, Duke University, October 1, 2008
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Panel Discussion, What’s Going on in Financial Markets, School of Law, Duke University, September 25, 2008
- Professor Cox has also been widely quoted in the national media.
Fuqua Professor Campbell Harvey
Law & Business Professor Steven L. Schwarcz
- "Toward Better Financial Regulation," findings of The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education, June 2009
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Testimony before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. House of Representatives
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Panel Discussion, Amidst the Panic: Assessing Risk in a Reshaping Financial System, Duke University Financial Partners, New York City, November 4, 2008.
Professor Schwarcz also has authored the following articles and works-in-progress on the financial crisis and systemic risk:
- “Systemic Risk,” 97 Georgetown Law Journal 193 (Nov. 2008)
- “Protecting Financial Markets: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown,” forthcoming 93 Minnesota L. Rev., issue no. 2 (2008)
- “Disclosure’s Failure in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis,”forthcoming Utah. L. Rev. 2008-09 (symposium issue on the subprime mortgage meltdown)
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“Understanding the ‘Subprime’ Financial Crisis,” forthcoming S. C. L. Rev. (2009) (keynote address, law review symposium)
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“The Future of Securitization,”a forthcoming 41 Conn. L. Rev., Issue No. 4 (2009) (symposium issue on “The Subprime Crisis: Going Forward”)
- “Complexity as a Catalyst of Market Failure: A Law and Engineering Inquiry,” work-in-progress
Fuqua Professor Simon Gervais
Law Professor Bill Brown
- Professor Brown is teaching a course on “Legal, Accounting & Business Responses to the Subprime Crisis”.

