Douglas Levene
Professor from Practice
dblevene@gmail.com
“Moral hazard and the control of moral hazard through well-designed banking regulation is one of the key questions of public policy today. For the most part banking regulation has been left to economists and bankers. I propose to bring a legal perspective to bear on these vital questions, focusing particularly on regulation of bank capital.”
- BIO
Douglas Levene is a scholar of banking regulation and corporate finance. He joined STL following a successful corporate practice as Vice President and General Counsel of Philip Morris Capital Corporation. Before that, he was Chief M&A Counsel for Kraft Foods, Inc. Professor Levene’s earlier practice included positions with Jones Day, Skadden Arps and Cleary Gottlieb, three leading multinational law firms. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University, and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan where he graduated at the top of his class. He has served as law clerk to Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as law clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger of the United States Supreme Court.
- COURSES
- Deal Documentation
- Analytical Methods for Lawyers
- Business Associations
- Corporate Finance
- International Financial Regulation
- Insider Trading Seminar
- PUBLICATIONS
- “Credit Default Swaps and Insider Trading,” 2 Va. L. & Bus. Rev. 231 (2012)
- “International Students: How to Teach Transactional Skills,” 14 Tenn. J. Bus. L. 603 (2013), available at http://trace.tennessee.edu/transactions/vol14/iss3/17
- “Don’t Tax Political Speech: The IRS’s Proposed New 501(c)(4) Rules are Fundamentally Unfair,” National Review Online, December 3, 2013, available at http://nationalreview.com/article/365304/dont-tax-political-speech-douglas-b-levene
- “Reflections on Cambodia: What the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields Tell Us About Leftist Utopianism,” National Review Online, March 12, 2012, available at http://nationalreview.com/articles/293017/reflections-cambodia-douglas-b-levene
- EDUCATION
- J.D., University of Michigan
- M.A., Yale University
- S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- NEWS
Professor Levene visited the University of Chicago Law School as the Walter Schaefer Visting Professor during the Winter and Spring 2015 Quarters