What Should We Do About the Mortgage and Foreclosure Crisis?

Orlando Lawyers Chapter

Speakers:

• Prof. Todd Zywicki, George Mason School of Law

Speakers:

• Prof. Todd Zywicki, George Mason School of Law

Professor Zywicki will be exploring the causes of the mortgage crisis and the subsequent causes and responses to the resulting foreclosure crisis. In particular, the presentation will examine the economic and legal factors that led to the real estate and mortgage boom and the economic and legal factors that have caused the foreclosure crisis, including differences in state laws that have exacerbated the foreclosure crisis. Finally, Professor Zywicki will discuss various proposals to respond to the crisis, including proposed changes to the bankruptcy laws, federal regulation of consumer credit, and related ideas.

*TODD J. ZYWICKI is Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and Senior Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In 2009, Professor Zywicki was honored as the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies Charles G. Koch Outstanding IHS Alum Award. Since 2006 he has served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Business Associations, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. He has also taught at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Boston College Law School, and Mississippi College School of Law. Professor Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki also received an M.A. in Economics from Clemson University and an A.B. cum Laude with high honors in his major from Dartmouth College.

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