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:
- Administering the Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law, the first of its kind in the United States
- Publishing the Review of Banking & Financial Law
- Conducting continuing legal education programs, seminars and symposia with the American Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association and the Financial Services Roundtable.
- Contributing to the academic and scholarly life of Boston University through the Edward Lane-Reticker Speaker Series, Financial Services and Student Lecture Series and other academic activities focusing on banking and financial services law.
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.

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 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. The series focuses on legal and business developments in the tumultuous financial services industry. Each program consists of an update on current market and regulatory events; a drill-down on a significant and timely issue; and a spotlight on a company or an industry and how it is coping with the recession.
On June 10:
- Update - Grant Butler, an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP, will give an update on developments since our last program;
- Drill-down - Prof. Perry Mehrling, Ph.D., a professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University, will talk about deleveraging the global economy; and
- Company spotlight - Brian J. Gilmore, Executive Vice President of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, will give a snapshot of business in Massachusetts.
A question and answer period will follow.
RSVP to the BBA
Questions? Please contact the BBA at 617-778-2040 extension 3
The June 10 program will be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston Room, 4th floor, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston. RSVP and ID required for access to the building.
The program will continue once monthly throughout the summer. Lectures are scheduled for July 15 and August 19.
Go to "The Buck Starts Here" to view videos of past lectures in the series

The Morin Center in the News
The Morin Center is a frequent source of comments on the current financial situation:
- American Banker (6/29/09) Unused Fed Umbrella Powers Set to Expand (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted, subscription required)
- Law 360 (6/23/09) Consumer Financial Protection Agency Faces Fight (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- Sacramento Bee (6/21/09) Bailed-out bank's deals raise concerns (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- Boston Globe (6/18/09) Financial rules may affect state companies (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- Reuters (6/18/09) COMMENTARY Regulation reform hints of “Old Europe” (By Senior Fellow Robert R. Bench
- Bloomberg (6/17/09) Wall Street Calls Obama's Mortgage-Market Debt Plan a Burden (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- Forbes (6/17/09) COMMENTARY: Don't Rush Regulatory Reform (By Senior Fellow Bob Bench)
- American Banker (6/17/09) Reform 2009: Who Regulates What; More Power For the Fed? Not So Fast, Critics Say (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted - subscription required)
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (6/14/09) Dwelling House Savings and Loan told to raise capital or face sale, closure (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- American Banker (6/15/09) Seeing a Systemic Risk in the Fed Itself (Prof. Cornelius Hurley and Morin Center Board of Advisors member Ernest Patirkis quoted - subscription required)
- Dow Jones Newswires (6/9/09) Bank-Stock Warrants Put Obama Administration In Hard-To-Win Spot (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- Wall Street Journal (5/23/09) E*Trade's Brokerage to Become Unit of Bank (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted- subscription required)
- American Banker (5/18/09) Stress Tests Complicate 'Too Big to Fail' Debate (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- American Banker (5/15/09) As Fed's Role Grows, Doubt Spurs Critics (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- American Banker (5/7/09) Stress Tests Bought Time; Will Procrastination Pay? (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- WBZ-AM (5/6/09) Bank stress tests results due Thursday. (Prof. Cornelius Hurley interviewed - audio link)
- American Banker, Bank Investment Consultant (5/6/09) What Stress Tests Did and Didn't Accomplish (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
- American Banker (5/6/09)
A Retail Bank Plan — Hold the Branches (Prof. Cornelius Hurley quoted)
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