Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 4:10pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Flavelle House, 78 Queens Park, Room FL219

Law and Economics Colloquium

Presents:

Frederick Tung
Boston University

Banking on Innovation

Tuesday February 25, 2020
4:10pm - 5:45pm
Flavelle House
78 Queens Park, FL219 (John Willis Classroom)

Fred Tung is the Howard Zhang Faculty Research Scholar and professor of law at Boston University School of Law. He researches, teaches, and consults in the areas of bankruptcy, corporate and securities law, and the governance of financial institutions. Prior to joining the BU faculty, he was the Robert T. Thompson Professor of Law and Business at Emory University School of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, a Roger T. Traynor Professor in Corporate Law at Hastings College of the Law, and a fellow at the Searle-Kauffman Institute on Law, Innovation, and Growth. Professor Tung is a member of the American Law Institute. He has testified in Congress before the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), has served as a consultant on law reform for the Ministry of Justice in Ethiopia, the Center for Commercial Law and Economics in Indonesia, and the California Law Revision Commission, and has been a permanent blogger with the popular corporate law blog Conglomerate. He has been a lecturer in the law department at Peking University, and has served on the Consumer Law Task Force of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. Proficient in Mandarin, he was an interpreter for ABC News covering the Democracy Movement in Beijing. He also worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley.

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