The Association of American Law Schools Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Program for the 2009 Annual Meeting (January in San Diego) has announced its topic: Does Modern Financial Institution Regulation Work? Reflections on Deregulation and Internationalization of Supervisory Standards. The program will consider these, and other, questions: 

• Did deregulation through the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act save an anachronistic industry or did it create opportunities for abuse?
• Have our enormous investments in capital regulation and our increasing reliance on risk-based models paid off?
• Will structural reforms abroad, the subprime crisis, and the Treasury’s Blueprint serve as an impetus for the United States to address its complex and, arguably, inefficient agency structure?

Law teachers and other scholars are invited to submit manuscripts dealing with any aspect of the foregoing topic. Junior faculty members are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts. A review committee will invite the author(s) of each selected paper to make a presentation at the program session. Please send manuscripts to the Program Chair, Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Catholic University, no later than August 1, 2008.