Lev Menand is a lecturer in law and academic fellow at Columbia Law School. Lev’s research focuses on banking law and financial regulation, central banking, money and monetary administration, the law of regulated industries, legal theory,…
More “Just Money Profiles
Lev Menand, Co-Editor”
Category: Lev Menand
Just Money Profiles
Spring 2021 - Reassessing Central Bank Independence
L. Menand, The Legality of Central Bank Independence in the United States
July 5, 2022
Central bank independence faces heightened scrutiny today, with scholars and policy experts—including several in this roundtable—questioning its desirability and legitimacy. But even its critics tend to take its legality for granted.
More “Spring 2021 - Reassessing Central Bank Independence
L. Menand, The Legality of Central Bank Independence in the United States”
Spring 2021
Reassessing Central Bank Independence
Paul Tucker, Rosa Lastra, Christina Parajon Skinner, Gerald Epstein, Robert Hockett, Nathan Tankus, Raul Carrillo, Stefan Eich, Dan Rohde and Lev Menand
More “Spring 2021
Reassessing Central Bank Independence”
Current Scholarship
Written Testimony in a Senate Hearing on Building a Stronger Financial System: Opportunities of a Central Bank Digital Currency
Lev Menand
Written Testimony of Lev Menand for the hearing entitled "Building a Stronger Financial System: Opportunities for a Central Bank Digital Currency" before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic Policy.
More “Current Scholarship
Written Testimony in a Senate Hearing on Building a Stronger Financial System: Opportunities of a Central Bank Digital Currency”
Announcement
New Casebook by Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand
Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy
More “Announcement
New Casebook by Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand”
Announcement
New Book by Lev Menand
The Fed Unbound Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
Do the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality?.More “Announcement
New Book by Lev Menand”
Roundtable: Public Money
M. Ricks, J. Crawford, L. Menand, FedAccounts: Digital Dollars
August 10, 2020
Morgan Ricks, Vanderbilt University John Crawford, University of California Hastings College of the Law Lev Menand, Columbia Law School
In 1989 the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System came out against the “basic banking” legislation that Congress
More “Roundtable: Public Money
M. Ricks, J. Crawford, L. Menand, FedAccounts: Digital Dollars”
Policy Spotlight
Lacewell v. OCC
More “Policy Spotlight
Lacewell v. OCC”
Spring 2020
Virtual Currencies and the State
Contributors: Bill Maurer, Lev Menand, Lana Swartz, J.S. Nelson, Benjamin Geva, Hilary Allen, David Golumbia, Finn Brunton, Gili Vidan, Marcelo De Castro Cunha Filho, Susan Silbey, John Haskell, Nathan Tankus, Katharina Pistor, and Joseph Sommer
More “Spring 2020
Virtual Currencies and the State”
Current Scholarship
The Monetary Basis of Bank Supervision
Author: Lev Menand
Administrative agencies typically operate at arm’s length from the institutions they regulate, making rules and then enforcing them after the fact.
More “Current Scholarship
The Monetary Basis of Bank Supervision”
Virtual Currencies and the State
L. Menand, Regulate Virtual Currencies as Currency
February 14, 2020
Lev Menand, Columbia Law School
Eleven years ago an unknown person—or group of people—going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin
More “Virtual Currencies and the State
L. Menand, Regulate Virtual Currencies as Currency”