Expertise: Banking and Finance
Faculty
| Group Index | Group | Image | Profile | Title | Expertise | News |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Faculty |  | Peterson, Christopher | Professor | Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Contracts, Public Policy |
News and Events
Peterson interviewed by MSNBC about the rise in wages and consumer debt
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Chris Peterson was interviewed by MSNBC in a story titled, “Optimism and red flags: The state of American personal finances.” Peterson spoke about the rise in late car payments and consumer debt. Click here to view the clip »
Peterson co-authors Op-ed on Wells Fargo fraud case
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Christopher Peterson co-authored an Op-ed for the Deseret News titled, “Op-ed: Wells Fargo case shows how fine print can erode freedom.” A statement from the article reads: “Rather than addressing this systemic wrongdoing, Wells Fargo moved to keep the scandal out of the public eye by […]
Peterson writes Op-ed about HR10 bill’s impact on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Christopher Peterson wrote an Op-Ed titled, Bill would gut financial consumer protections for The Salt Lake Tribune.
Schwartz research on startup investing highlighted in The Wall Street Journal
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Jeff Schwartz’s forthcoming paper in the North Carolina Law Review was discussed in The Wall Street Journal in an article titled, “Startup Investing Can Be Lucrative for Mutual Funds. And Problematic.“
Schwartz article on mutual funds posted in Harvard Law Forum
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Jeff Schwartz‘s article titled Should Mutual Funds Invest in Startups? was posted in the Harvard Law Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. The post is based on the article he wrote for the North Carolina Law Review. Read the full article here »
American Banker magazine reports on Peterson study related to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
American Banker magazine covered new research by University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Christopher L. Peterson in its latest edition. Four years after Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as a tool to help the American public recover from scars left by the economic collapse of the Great Recession, Peterson evaluated […]
Peterson discusses payday lending with The Atlantic
S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Chris Peterson was interviewed in the May 2016 issue of The Atlantic in a story titled, “Payday Lending: Will Anything Better Replace It? The practice is slowly being regulated out of existence. But it’s unclear where low-income Americans will find short-term loans instead.” The idea that interest rates should have […]
Baughman writes for The Conversation about financing terror using U.S. shell companies
S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Shima Baradaran Baughman published a paper in The Conversation titled, “Panama Papers show how easy it is to finance terror using U.S. shell companies.” “… an American has no need to form a shell company in Panama because they can obtain one right here in the United States. And as my […]
Baughman comments on “Panama Papers” for NPR’s Marketplace, Fusion
S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Shima Baradaran Baughman commented on the “panama papers” for NPR’s Marketplace and the website WSWS.org. The paper consists of a 11.5 million confidential documents from the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies Shima Baradaran Baughman, a law Professor University of […]
Schwartz Testifies at House Subcommittee about Conflict Minerals, is Quoted in Wall Street Journal
University of Utah law professor Jeff Schwartz testified in Washington D.C. this week, telling the House Financial Services Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee that the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 —in which public companies are required to monitor their supply chain for minerals mined from regions controlled by militia groups in the Democratic Republic of the […]