This Article engages the two hundred year history of corporate constitutional rights jurisprudence to show that the Supreme Court has long accorded rights to corporations based on the rationale that corporations represent associations of people from whom such rights are derived. The Article...

This article proposes several simple financial market reforms that can help regulators both identify systemically risky institutions and mitigate the systemic risk associated with derivative trading, especially trading in credit derivatives such as credit default swaps.The Federal Reserve (or...

To prevent financial markets from imploding again, as they did in the fall of 2008, regulators must find ways to limit the amount of “leverage” financial institutions utilize. Excessive "leverage" means financing with too much debt relative to the amount of equity a firm has. Numerous...