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David Min

Assistant Professor of Law

Expertise:

Business law, credit cards, economics and law, finance, government regulation and policy, mortgages, real estate law, banking, securities regulation

Background:

David Min is a nationally recognized expert on financial markets regulation, and his research interests focus on the law and policy of banking, real estate finance, and capital markets.

Before joining the faculty of UCI Law, Professor Min spent over a decade working in financial regulatory law and policy, including as a staff attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, as an associate in the Securities Litigation practice group of the Washington, DC, law firm WilmerHale, as Banking Committee counsel for Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and as the senior policy advisor and counsel for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Professor Min was most recently the Associate Director for Financial Markets Policy at the Center for American Progress, a policy think tank, where he oversaw the efforts of the Mortgage Finance Working Group, a collection of leading mortgage market experts responsible for, among other things, one of the leading proposals on housing finance reform that was described by the Wall Street Journal as “influential” and “one of the most detailed road maps yet for the creation of a housing-finance structure to succeed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”

Professor Min is regularly quoted on financial markets and housing finance issues, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Reuters, Associated Press and Bloomberg, and is a frequent contributor to radio and television programs, including NPR’s Marketplace, the Diane Rehm Show, CNBC and Fox News. Professor Min is often asked to speak at local and national events.

Professor Min holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Current Courses:

Common Law Analysis: Contracts, Financial Crises

Prior Courses:

Common Law Analysis: Contracts, Banking Law and Policy, Law and Theory Relating to the 2008 Financial Crisis, Banking Regulation

Recent Publications

David Min, Balancing the Governance of Financial Institutions, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation blog, July 16, 2017.
David Min, How Government Guarantees Promote Housing Finance Stability, 50 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 437 (2013).
Beyond GSEs: Examples of Successful Housing Finance Models Without Explicit Government Guarantees: Hearing before the H. Fin. Serv. Comm., 113th Cong. (2013) (written testimony of David K. Min, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Irvine School of Law).
David Min, When the Government Backs Mortgages, L.A. Times, Mar. 1, 2013.
Who’s in Your Wallet? Dodd Frank’s Impact on Families, Communities and Small Businesses: Hearing before the H. Fin. Serv. Comm., 112th Cong. (2012) (written testimony of David K. Min, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Irvine School of Law).