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,…
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SIX REACTIONS TO THE SILICON VALLEY BANK DEBACLE
Christine Desan, Lev Menand, Raúl Carillo, Rohan Grey, Dan Rohde, and Hillary J. Allen offer their
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Scrap the Bank Deposit Insurance Limit
Opinion | by Lev Menand and Morgan Ricks - Washington Post - March 15, 2023
The time has come for Congress to scrap the $250,000 cap on deposit insurance coverage, strengthen regulatory oversight accordingly and charge banks much more for operating a government-backed deposit business.
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Scrap the Bank Deposit Insurance Limit”
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New Symposium on “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities” by Ricks, Sitaraman, Welton, and Menand
Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand
Networks, Platforms, and Utilities (NPU) is the first entirely new casebook integrating NPU law in a quarter century—and the first with some temporal distance from the deregulatory movement of the late twentieth century. The book thus contributes to larger intellectual shifts in the academy and public policy.
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Announcement
New Casebook by Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand
Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy
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New Casebook by Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand”
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.
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Announcement
New Book by Lev Menand
The Fed Unbound Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
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Written Testimony in a Senate Hearing on Building a Stronger Financial System: Opportunities of a Central Bank Digital Currency
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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.
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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
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Reassessing Central Bank Independence”
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
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Policy Spotlight
Lacewell v. OCC
Author: Lev Menand & Morgan Ricks
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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
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Virtual Currencies and the State”
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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.
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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
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