University of North Carolina School of Law Carolina Law Scholarship Repository Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 2019 Consumer Protection after a Global Financial Crisis Melissa B. Jacoby University of North Carolina School of Law,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Law Commons Publication: Georgetown Law Journal Recommended Citation Jacoby, Melissa B., "Consumer Protection after a Global Financial Crisis" (2019). Faculty Publications. 486. https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/faculty_publications/486 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ARTICLES Consumer Protection After the Global Financial Crisis EDWARD J. BALLEISEN* & MELISSA B. JACOBY** Like other major events, the Global Financial Crisis generated a large and diffuse body of academic analysis. As part of a broader call for operationalizing the study of crises as policy shocks and resulting responses, which inevitably derail from elegant theories, we examine how regulatory protagonists approached consumer protection after the GFC, guided by six elements that should be considered in any policy shock context. After reviewing the introduction and philosophy of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, created as part of the Dodd±Frank Act of 2010, we consider four examples of how consumer protection unfolded in the crises' aftermath that have received less attention. Our case studies investigate a common set of queries. We sought to identify the parties who cared suf®ciently about a given issue to engage with it and try to shape policy, as well as the evolving nature of the relevant policy agenda.