Elizabeth Warren Should Head New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 141 Professors Say

A total of 141 American law and other professors are submitting a joint letter to President Barack Obama asking him to appoint Elizabeth Warren as the first director of the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. The letter reads as follows: 

“Dear Mr. President,
 
“We are professors of many disciplines, including law, economics, management, sociology, and political science, who specialize in subjects relevant to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (the “Bureau”) established by the Dodd-Frank Act. We write to urge you to appoint Elizabeth Warren as the Bureau’s first Director.
 
“Professor Warren is an eminent legal scholar and a nationally renowned expert on consumer finance. She has authored over one hundred and twenty scholarly articles and books. These include a best-selling personal finance book for middle class families and teaching materials that help educate thousands of law students every year.   
 
“This scholarly expertise, along with her work as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP, has given Professor Warren a broad, and perhaps unique, perspective on how effective consumer protection is essential for the safety and soundness of the financial system and the health of the American economy. She is an effective manager with clear vision and the ability to coordinate complex projects, as demonstrated by her groundbreaking scholarly studies, her work as reporter for the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, and her leadership of the Congressional Oversight Panel. 
 
“In both her scholarship and her public service, Professor Warren draws her conclusions from careful analysis of data. She listens carefully to alternate hypotheses and she is responsive to criticism. She speaks plainly and honestly. She owes no allegiance to the financial services industry or other special interest groups.
 
“Professor Warren’s integrity and genuine concern for the plight of ordinary American families are sorely needed in Washington. We believe that Elizabeth Warren is the ideal choice to head the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.”
 
The signers and their affiliations follow:
 
Richard Aaron
Professor of Law Emeritus, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT;
Richard M. Alderman
Associate Dean, Dwight Olds Chair in Law, and Director of the Center for Consumer Law University of Houston Law Center Houston, TX;
Peter C. Alexander
Professor, Southern Illinois University School of Law Carbondale, IL;
David A. Anderson
Marshall & Emily Wulff Centennial Professor, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Jerry Anthony
Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Iowa Iowa City, IA;
Oren Bar-Gill
Professor, New York University School of Law Co-Director, Center for Law, Economics & Organization, New York University New York, NY;
Patrick B. Bauer
Professor, University of Iowa College of Law Iowa City, IA;
Lawrence G. Baxter
Professor of the Practice of Law, Duke Law School Durham, NC;
Vicki Been
Boxer Family Professor, New York University School of Law New York, NY;
Adam Benforado
Assistant Professor, Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University Philadelphia, PA;
Brian H. Bix
Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN;
Gary Blasi
Professor, UCLA School of Law
Los Angeles, CA;
Susan Block-Lieb
Cooper Family Chair of Urban Legal Studies, Fordham University School of Law New York, NY;
Douglass Boshkoff
Robert H. McKinney Emeritus Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Bloomington, IN;
Amelia H. Boss
Trustee Professor of Law, Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University Philadelphia, PA;
Jean Braucher
Roger C. Henderson Professor, The James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ;
Caroline Brown
Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law Chapel Hill, NC;
J. Robert Brown, Jr
Professor and Director, Commercial and Corporate Law Program University of Denver Sturm College of Law Denver, CO;
Ralph Brubaker
Professor and Guy Raymond Jones Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL;
Mark E. Budnitz
Bobby Lee Cook Professor, Georgia State University College of Law Atlanta, GA;
Daniel J. Bussel
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law Los Angeles, CA;
Timothy A. Canova
Betty Hutton Williams Professor, Chapman University School of Law Orange, CA;
Richard Scott Carnell
Professor, Fordham University School of Law New York, NY;
Lisa L. Casey
Associate Professor, Notre Dame Law School Notre Dame, IN;
James D. Cox
Brainerd Currie Professor, Duke Law School Durham, NC;
Prentiss Cox
Professor of Clinical Law, University of Minnesota Law School Minneapolis, MN;
Marianne B. Culhane
Dean and Professor, Creighton University School of Law Omaha, NE;
andré douglas pond cummings
Professor, West Virginia University College of Law Morgantown, WV;
Lynne Dallas
Professor, University of San Diego School of Law San Diego, CA;
William D. Diamond
Associate Professor, Isenberg School of Management, Amherst, MA;
A. Mechele Dickerson
Arthur L. Moller Chair in Bankruptcy Law and Practice, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Matthew Doré
Professor, Drake University Law School
Des Moines, IA;  
Rashmi Dyal-Chand
Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Boston, MA;
Theodore Eisenberg
Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law, Cornell Law School Adjunct Professor of Statistical Sciences, Cornell University Ithaca, NY;
Kathleen C. Engel
Professor, Suffolk University Law School Boston, MA;
James Fanto
Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY;
Adam Feibelman
Professor, Tulane University School of Law New Orleans, LA;
Linda E. Fisher
Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law
Newark, NJ;  
Judith Fox
Associate Clinical Professor, Notre Dame Law School South Bend, IN;
David Friedman
Assistant Professor, Willamette University College of Law Salem, OR;
Jessica D. Gabel
Assistant Professor, Georgia State University School of Law Atlanta, GA;
Jackie Gardina
Professor, Vermont Law School
South Royalton, VT;
Julius G. Getman
Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
S. Elizabeth Gibson
Burton Craige Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law Chapel Hill, NC;
Ann Graham
Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law Lubbock, TX;
Michael Greenberger
Professor, University of Maryland College of Law Baltimore, MD;
Jacob S. Hacker
Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University Resident Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies New Haven, CT;
James Hackney
Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Boston, MA;
Jon Hanson
Albert Smart Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA;
Michelle M. Harner
Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Law Baltimore, MD;
Susan E. Hauser
Associate Professor, North Carolina Central University School of Law Durham, NC;
Cassandra Jones Havard
Associate Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law Baltimore, MD;
Thomas Lee Hazen
Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law Chapel Hill, NC;
Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger
Professor, Boston College Law School
Newton Centre, MA;
Margaret Howard
Law Alumni Association Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law Lexington, VA;
Melissa B. Jacoby
George R. Ward Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law Chapel Hill, NC;
Edward J. Janger
Anne Urowksy Visiting Professor, Yale Law School New Haven, CT David M. Barse Professor, Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn, NY;
Calvin H. Johnson
Andrews & Kurth Centennial Professor, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Creola Johnson
Professor, Ohio State University College of Law Columbus, OH;
Emma Coleman Jordan
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC;
Daniel L. Keating
Tyrrell Williams Professor, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law St. Louis, MO;
John Kidwell
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, WI;
Jason Kilborn
Associate Professor, John Marshall Law School Chicago, IL;
Kenneth N. Klee
Professor, UCLA School of Law
Los Angeles, CA;
Russell Korobkin
Professor and Director, Negotiation & Conflict Resolution Program, UCLA School of Law Los Angeles, CA;
Robert M. Lawless
Professor, University of Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL;
Kevin T. Leicht
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology at University of Iowa and Director of the Iowa Social Science Research Center Iowa City, IA;
Sanford Levinson
W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Adam J. Levitin
Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC;
Jonathan C. Lipson
Peter J. Liacouras Professor, Beasley School of Law, Temple University Philadelphia, PA Foley & Lardner Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, WI;
Angela Littwin
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Lynn M. LoPucki
Security Pacific Bank Professor, UCLA School of Law Los Angeles, CA;
Stephen J. Lubben
Daniel J. Moore Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law Newark, NJ;
Lois R. Lupica
Maine Law Foundation Professor, University of Maine School of Law Portland, ME;
Stewart Macaulay
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, WI;
Cathy Lesser Mansfield
Professor, Drake University Law School
Des Moines, IA;
Marsha M. Mansfield
Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Economic Justice Institute, University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, WI; 
Nathalie Martin
Keleher & McLeod Professor, University of New Mexico School of Law Albuquerque, NM;
Martha T. McCluskey
Professor and William J. Magavern Faculty Scholar, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School Buffalo, NY;
Patricia A. McCoy
Director of Insurance Law Center and Connecticut Mutual Professor University of Connecticut School of Law Hartford, CT;
Thomas O. McGarity
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Administrative Law The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Stephen Meili
Professor of Clinical Law, University of Minnesota Law School Minneapolis, MN;
Douglas Moll
Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P. Law Center Professor, University of Houston Law Center Houston, TX;
Juliet M. Moringiello
Professor, Widener University School of Law Harrisburg, PA;
Jeffrey W. Morris
Professor and Samuel A. McCray Chair, University of Dayton School of Law Dayton, OH;
Charles W. Murdock
Professor and Loyola Faculty Scholar, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Chicago, IL;
Gary Neustadter
Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law Santa Clara, CA;
David Oedel
Professor, Mercer University School of Law Macon, GA;
Saule Omarova
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law Chapel Hill, NC;
Chrystin Ondersma
Assistant Professor, Rutgers-Newark School of Law Newark, NJ;
Frank A. Pasquale
Schering-Plough Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law Associate Director, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Seton Hall University Newark, NJ;
Christopher L. Peterson
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law Salt Lake City, UT;
Arthur R. Pinto
Professor and Co-Director, Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn, NY;
Lawrence Ponoroff
Dean & Samuel M. Fegtly Chair in Commercial Law James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ;
Katherine Porter
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA;
John A. E. Pottow
Professor, University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI;
Bruce M. Price
Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law San Francisco, CA;
Dee Pridgen
Associate Dean and Carl M. Williams Professor, University of Wyoming College of Law Laramie, WY;
Lisa R. Pruitt
Professor, UC Davis School of Law
Davis, CA;
Theresa J. Pulley Radwan
Professor, Stetson University College of Law Gulfport, FL;
Nancy B. Rapoport
Gordon Silver Professor, William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV Las Vegas, NV;
David J. Reiss
Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY; 
Elizabeth Renuart
Assistant Professor, Albany Law School
Albany, NY;
Alan N. Resnick
Benjamin Weintraub Distinguished Professor of Bankruptcy Law, Hofstra University School of Law Hempstead, NY;
Christopher Robertson
Associate Professor, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona Tuscon, AZ;
Professor Arnold S. Rosenberg
Assistant Dean and Director, Walter H. and Dorothy B. Diamond Graduate Program in International Tax & Financial Services, Thomas Jefferson School of Law San Diego, CA;
Daniel Schwarcz
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School Minneapolis, MN;
Teresa Schwartz
J.B. & Maurice Shapiro Professor Emeritus of Public Interest Law George Washington University Law School Washington, DC;
Jeff Selbin
Clinical Professor, UC Berkeley Law
Berkeley, CA;
Lea Krivinskas Shepard
Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Chicago, IL;
Seana Shiffrin
Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice, UCLA School of Law Professor of Philosophy, UCLA Los Angeles, CA;
Norman I. Silber
Professor, Hofstra University School of Law Hempstead, NY;
Michael Simkovic
Associate Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law Newark, NJ;
Paige Marta Skiba
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Law School Nashville, TN;
 Jeff Sovern
Professor, St. John's University School of Law Jamaica, NY;
John A. Spanogle
Kirkpatrick Professor, George Washington University Law School Washington, DC;
Matthew Stephenson
Professor, Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA;
Lynn A. Stout
Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law, UCLA School of Law Los Angeles, CA;
Michael F. Sturley
Stanley D. and Sandra J. Rosenberg Centennial Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Charles J. Tabb
Alice Curtis Campbell Professor, University of Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL;
Jennifer S. Taub
Lecturer and Coordinator of Business Law Program Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA;
Celia R. Taylor
Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Denver, CO;
Zephyr Teachout
Associate Professor, Fordham University School of Law New York, NY;
Deborah Thorne
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio University Athens, OH;
Gerald Torres
Bryant Smith Chair, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Marshall E. Tracht
Professor, New York Law School
New York, NY;
Thomas S. Ulen
Swanlund Chair and Professor, University of Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL;
Spencer Weber Waller
Professor and Director of Institute of Consumer Antitrust Studies Loyola University Chicago School of Law Chicago, IL;
G. Ray Warner
Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Bankruptcy Studies, St. John's University School of Law Queens, NY;
William D. Warren (no relation to Elizabeth Warren) Connell Professor, UCLA School of Law Los Angeles, CA;
Louise Weinberg
Professor and William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Jay L. Westbrook
Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Austin, TX;
Douglas J. Whaley
Professor of Law Emeritus, Mortiz College of Law, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH;
Alan M. White
Associate Professor, Valparaiso University School of Law Valparaiso, IN;
Michaela M. White
Professor, Creighton University School of Law Omaha, NE;
William C. Whitford
Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, WI;
Jack F. Williams
Professor, Georgia State University College of Law/Middle East Institute Atlanta, GA;
Lauren E. Willis
Professor, Loyola Law School-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA;
Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr.
Professor, George Washington University Law School Washington, DC;
William Woodward
Professor, Beasley School of Law, Temple University Philadelphia, PA; and
Larry Zacharias
Associate Professor, Management Department Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA.