Duke Law professors Samuel Buell, Steven Schwarcz, and Lawrence Baxter discuss the film The Big Short and its issues in an in depth panel discussion.. The film explores a number of issues, including: complex securitizations, a lack of regulation, and the nature of financial fraud.

Originally recorded on October 6, 2016.

Sponsored by the Global Financial Markets Center.

The subprime mortgage crisis has led to the failure or sale of some venerable financial institutions, as well as the wholesale government bailout of others deemed "too big to fail." Some observers fear the entire financial system may be teetering on the brink of collapse. Professors James Cox, Steven Schwarcz, and Bill Brown discuss the causes and cures for the growing economic crisis. [Bill Brown is a visiting faculty member at Duke Law, and is cofounder of Palmer Labs, LLC, and 8 Rivers Capital, LLC, .

A session of Professor Steven Schwarcz's Structuring Commercial & Financial Transactions course, wherein he discusses Enron's use and abuse of special purpose entities and off-balance sheet accounting.

Recorded on February 08, 2002.

Full title: Structuring Commercial & Financial Transactions: Enron.

The workshop will examine the hypothesis that certain fundamental principles of bankruptcy reorganization law can prudently and equitably resoslve the debt restructuring problems of financially troubled municipalities around the world. In that context, Professor Steven Schwarcz of the Law School will present these principles and discuss how they might be applied to Japan's municipal debt crisis as well as to the municipal debt problems of developing nations.