The Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law

The Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law was founded in 1978 to develop research and educational programs in the areas of law governing and relating to banking and financial services. The Morin Center’s mission is to provide, within BU Law, an organization for encouraging, managing and recognizing education and research in the field of banking and financial services law. The Morin Center reflects the international aspects of financial services in its work, seeks to marry academic excellence with practical application and fosters a community of scholarship and dialog on legal issues critical to the financial community.

The work of the Morin Center is four-fold:

The Center’s name reflects the generosity of Charles Morin of Washington D.C., a member of the Boston University School of Law Class of 1949 and an original member of the Center’s Board of Advisors.

  
 
 

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The Buck Starts Here - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association

Please join us for the next meeting of The Buck Starts Here, a series of lunchtime lectures co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the BBA’s Banking and Financial Services Committee. 

“Capitalism: a Love Story…a discussion”

12:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the Bank of America Auditorium, 100 Federal Street, Boston, MA.

Join us for a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion of Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: a Love Story. The movie is Moore’s humorous (and sometimes outrageous) critique of the workings of capitalism, the United States economy and decisions that our nation’s leaders have made during the current economic crisis. In discussing the movie, we will be joined by two notable personalities who will lend their unique perspectives on the economic issues of the day:

  • Robert Pozen, Chairman of MFS Investment Management, formerly Secretary of Economic Affairs under Gov. Romney, author of Too Big to Save? ; and
  • Prof. Howard Zinn of Boston University, author of A Peoples’ History of the United States.

Mr. Pozen and Professor Zinn will share their insights on American capitalism, how it has been shaped by recent events, and the road forward.

Please join us for this program, by responding to banklaw@bu.edu by the close of business hours on Monday, October 26, 2009.
Due to space limitations, you must RSVP in order to gain access to the program.

Go to "The Buck Starts Here" to view videos of past lectures in the series

Morin Center Board of Advisors News

Richard M. Whiting, executive director and general counsel of The Financial Services Roundtable, has been elected chairman of the Morin Center Board of Advisors. Also elected are three new members of the Board: James Orr, Executive Director of The Bretton Woods Committee (Washington); John Teolis, partner of Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP (Toronto); and Donald F. Terry, until recently Manager of the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank (Washington).

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The Morin Center in the News

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