Nationally recognized expert in asset securitization visits College of Law

On January 22-23, Professor Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business at Duke University School of Law, visited the College of Law as a guest of the College's Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law and The University of Tennessee's Corporate Governance Center. Prof. Schwarcz is a pioneer and nationally recognized expert in asset securitization. While he was on campus, he met with, and conducted a research forum for, law and business faculty on a paper he is currently working on entitled: "Protecting Financial
Markets: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown."

Prof. Schwarcz's main areas of scholarship are commercial law, bankruptcy, and international finance and capital markets, where he brings the unique perspective of having been a leading practitioner as well as a scholar. In these inherently business dominated subjects, he works closely with colleagues at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, where he is Adjunct Professor of Business Administration. He also founded and was the first Faculty Director of Duke's interdisciplinary Global Capital Markets Center.

Prof. Schwarcz is a graduate of Columbia Law School and New York University, where he earned his B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics summa cum laude from the School of Engineering and Science. He is the author of Structured Finance, A Guide to the Principles of Asset Securitization (3d edition 2002), a widely used textbook, and has written numerous law review articles on structured finance, corporate finance, bankruptcy and reorganization, and lawyering. His professional activities and honors include membership in the American Law Institute, expert witness appearances, and visitorships and featured lectures at universities around the world.