Howell Jackson is the James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His research interests include financial regulation, securities regulation, consumer protection, international finance, and federal budget policy. Along with Michael Barr and Margaret Tahyar, Professor Jackson is co-author of Financial Regulation: Law and Policy (3rd ed. 2021), and author of numerous scholarly publications, many of which deal with the organization of financial regulation in the United States and other jurisdiction. In 2022, Professor Jackson and various co-authors published a series of papers with the Brookings Institution on the regulation of digital assets in the United States. He is a trustee of the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) and affiliated TIAA-CREF investment companies. Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty in 1989, Professor Jackson was a law clerk for Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall and practiced law in Washington, D.C. He received JD and MBA degrees from Harvard University in 1982 and a BA from Brown University in 1976.
The New Money: An American Perspective on Cryptocurrencies, Stablecoins and CBDCs
Abstract:
In his remarks at the conference, Professor Jackson will explore the increasing importance of digital assets in the United States and ongoing efforts by government officials to address these developments through enforcement actions, administrative actions, and legislative reforms. He will draw on a series of papers that he and authors have written over the past year on these topics as well a larger number of official sector reports released in 2022 on digital assets and related topics. In addition to assessing U.S. regulatory reforms efforts in this space, Professor Jackson will comment upon the heightened attention that money and its regulation has gained in U.S. academic circles.