Academic

Welcome Guest Bloggers

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

As noted earlier this week, Jayne Barnard of William & Mary will be blogging about the Madoff sentencing next week. Jayne is well known to many of our readers, and we are grateful that she is going to provide us with some onsite coverage and commentary about the sentencing.

Today we welcome another guest blogger, Mehrsa Baradaran, a young banking law scholar from New York. Mehrsa graduated from NYU Law School in 2005, then worked as an associate for three years at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she had a wide-ranging corporate practice. Since leaving the firm, she has been working on her budding academic career, including a paper on Industrial Loan Companies -- Banking Like it's 1929: The ILC and the Reconstruction of U.S. Banking, 10 Nev. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2010) -- which I blogged about a few weeks ago. This fall Mehrsa will start a fellowship at NYU, so look for more of her work soon.

She also is taking a keen interest in the current events in Iran, and I hope she will share some insights on that with us while she is here. Welcome, Mehrsa!

Full post as published by Conglomerate on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).