Chris Brummer

Chris Brummer is a professor of law and faculty director of Georgetown's Institute of International Economic Law. Prior to joining Georgetown's faculty with tenure in 2009, Brummer was an assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School. He has also taught at several leading universities as a visiting professor including the universities of Basel, Heidelberg, and the London School of Economics. Professor Brummer recently concluded a three year term as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA, an organization empowered by Congress to regulate the securities industry, where his work has been praised as making a significant contribution to advancing investor protection. He was also nominated twice by President Obama to serve as a Commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Professor Brummer lectures widely on finance and global governance, as well as on public and private international law, market microstructure and international trade. Mr. Brummer’s most recent book is Minilateralism: How Trade Alliances, Soft Law and Financial Engineering are Redefining Economic Statecraft (2014). He is also the rapporteur of the widely respected policy report, The Danger of Divergence: Transatlantic Financial Reform & the G20 Agenda (2013). His latest policy analysis examines the rise of China's currency in international payments and the need for supplemental market and regulatory reforms in Renminbi Ascending: How China's Currency Impacts Global Markets, Foreign Policy, and Transatlantic Financial Regulation. Chris Brummer earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated with honors, and he holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago. Before becoming a professor, he practiced law in the New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine &Moore LLP. He has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and was awarded the C. Boyden Gray Fellowship for Global Finance and Growth at the Atlantic Council, where he launched the think tank's Transatlantic Finance Initiative.