Prof. Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr.

Art Wilmarth is a Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. Before joining GW's law faculty, he was a partner in the Washington office of Jones Day. He has written more than forty law review articles and book chapters dealing with financial regulation, and he is the co-editor of a book on the financial crisis of 2007-09. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University and his J.D. degree from Harvard University. He has testified on financial regulatory issues before committees of the United States Congress and the California State Legislature. In 2005, he received the Best Article Prize from the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. In 2010, he served as a consultant to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which Congress established to report on the causes of the financial crisis. He is a member of the International Advisory Board for the Journal of Banking Regulation, published by Palgrave Macmillan.