Professor Michael Barr

Michael S. Barr is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and the founder of the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy. Professor Barr writes about domestic and international financial regulation. His books include Financial Regulation: Law & Policy (with Howell Jackson and Margaret Tahyar), No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans, Insufficient Funds (co-edited with Rebecca Blank), and Building Inclusive Financial Systems (co-edited with Anjali Kumar and Robert Litan).

Barr served in the Obama Administration as Treasury's assistant secretary for financial institutions and was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Barr previously served in the Clinton Administration as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin's special assistant, as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury, as special adviser to President William J. Clinton, and as a special adviser and counselor on the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State.

Barr served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, and previously to Judge Pierre N. Leval, then of the Southern District of New York.

He received his JD from Yale Law School, his MPhil in international relations as a Rhodes Scholar from Magdalen College, Oxford University, and his