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Patricia McCoy

Patricia A. McCoy teaches banking and securities regulation, corporate governance, retirement security law, and consumer finance law. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall). In law school, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Industrial Relations Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law). After graduation, she clerked for the late Judge Robert S. Vance of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She then went into practice and became partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in Washington, D.C., specializing in complex securities, banking and commercial constitutional litigation at the trial and appellate levels. She began her teaching career at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University.

Professor McCoy's research examines systemic risk, market failure, and consumer protection in the banking, securities, insurance, and pension industries. She has written articles on predatory lending, bank director liability, post-socialist business law reforms, corporate governance, and global convergence in banking. In addition, she has two books to her credit: Banking Law Manual: Federal Regulation of Financial Holding Companies, Banks and Thrifts (2d ed. 2000 & cum. supp.) and Financial Modernization After Gramm-Leach-Bliley (2002), for which she served as editor and contributor. In 2004, Professor McCoy also served as co-guest editor of a special symposium issue of Housing Policy Debate titled "Special Issue on Market Failures and Predatory Lending."

Professor McCoy was a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Economics Department in 2002-2003. Currently, she sits on the board of directors of the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association and the Research Advisory Council of the Center for Responsible Lending. She served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve from 2002 to 2004, where she chaired the Council's Consumer Credit Committee. In 2001, she was chair of the Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services of the Association of American Law Schools and was reappointed chair-elect for 2006. Professor McCoy is active in the Law and Society Association and has lectured extensively in Russia, Eastern Europe and China. In her other life, she sings with The Hartford Chorale and is an opera fanatic.

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Recent Courses

• Banking Law and Regulation (Spring 2009)
• Securities Regulation (Spring 2009)
• Business Organizations (Fall 2008)
• Business Organizations (Spring 2008)
• Securities Regulation (Spring 2008)
• Banking Law and Regulation (Spring 2007)