I'm delighted to welcome as a Guest Blogger my
Georgetown Law colleague
Anne Fleming, who will be posting (in the first half of the month--another Guest Blogger follows) on her recently published book,
City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance (Harvard University Press). From our
earlier post:
City of Debtors shows how each generation of Americans has
tackled the problem of fringe finance, using law to redefine the meaning
of justice within capitalism for those on the economic margins. Anne
Fleming tells the story of the small-sum lending industry’s growth and
regulation from the ground up, following the people who navigated the
market for small loans and those who shaped its development at the state
and local level. Fleming’s focus on the city and state of New York,
which served as incubators for numerous lending reforms that later
spread throughout the nation, differentiates her approach from work that
has centered on federal regulation. It also reveals the overlooked
challenges of governing a modern financial industry within a federalist
framework.
Professor Fleming received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and, to quote Georgetown's website,
her J.D., magna cum laude, from
Harvard Law School, where she served as a board member of the Legal Aid Bureau.After law school, she served as a law clerk
to the Honorable Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York and the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She
also practiced as a staff attorney for South Brooklyn Legal Services,
representing low-income homeowners facing foreclosure. Before joining the
Georgetown faculty, Fleming taught at Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow
and Lecturer on Law.
Welcome Professor Fleming!
