L&B News And Events

Ricks ranks among the nation’s top experts in financial regulation. Read More

Yesha Yadav, Ingrid Brunk, and Matthew Shaw participated in 14th annual conference, held in Mumbai, India, showcasing Vanderbilt Law’s co-sponsorship of this top interdisciplinary event in law and finance. Read More

In her California Law Review article “Discharge Discrimination,” Langston shows how debts ineligible for relief under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code disproportionately disadvantage minorities and low-income consumers Read More

New research from Yesha Yadav spotlights an overlooked vulnerability in America’s financial system Read More

Digital assets legal expert Yesha Yadav and senior payment policy experts Jose Fernandez da Ponte and Amy Davine Kim explore how digital asset technologies can ensure a globally competitive payments system in the U.S. Read More

Study co-authored by Randall Thomas examines trends in litigation at the Delaware Court of Chancery Read More

Yadav was one of three financial regulation experts who testified before the full committee in the aftermath of the crypto crash on why financial safeguards are needed for digital assets. Read More

Financial regulation expert Yadav discusses the federal charges against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces an eight-count criminal indictment that includes charges of fraud and conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws in the wake of the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire, with CNN International news anchor Rosemary Church. Read More

While antitrust restrictions typically address companies who are direct competitors, "There is increasing recognition not just at the FTC but also in policy circles that vertical relationships between Big Tech companies can also be really damaging to consumers," Allensworth says. She and Charlotte Slaiman, competition policy director at Public Knowledge, discuss the potential impacts of FTC Chairman Lina Khan's actions to address anticompetitive conduct and other concerns raised by the size and influence of Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Read More

Yadav's most recent paper, "Toward a Public-Private Oversight Model for Cryptocurrency Markets," makes a case for mandating self-regulation of crypto-exchanges as a first step toward reforming both the exchanges and cryptocurrency itself. She discusses various types of cryptocurrency and why cryptocurrencies have proven challenging to regulate in this interview with podcast host Hruska, who is senior adviser for communications and strategy with the American Constitution Society. Read More