Center for Law & the Economy Workshop: Prentiss Cox

The Murphy Institute's Center for Law and the Economy hosts workshops each semester featuring Tulane and guest faculty from the fields of law, economics, and political science. Presenters share their latest research on a range of topics, including regulation, civil rights, the criminal legal system, and other key issues in law and political economy. The workshops are hosted by Adam Feibelman, Director of the Center on Law and the Economy and Sumter D. Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, and are open to faculty, students, and the Tulane community. 

The Fall 2025 workshop series is co-convened by Mateusz Grochowski, Tulane Associate Professor of Law and a renowned scholar on comparative private law and law and technology. The series this semester will focus on themes in consumer law, broadly construed. 

Professor Prentiss Cox writes and teaches in the areas of consumer protection law, public civil law enforcement, and legal practice skills. Prior to joining the faculty in 2005, Cox was Manager of Consumer Protection at the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, where he continues to hold a Special Assistant Attorney General appointment.

Cox has prosecuted numerous nationally recognized cases involving subprime mortgage lending, foreclosure, banking regulation, state attorney general enforcement authority, consumer fraud, and related matters. Cox has drafted numerous consumer protection statutes and rules, and he has and testified several times before Congress and state legislatures. 

Cox has served as a trainer and consultant for national non-profits, state and federal government agencies, and for developing nations. He was a member of the inaugural Consumer Advisory Board of the U. S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has been a Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission, and has served on numerous other boards and advisory commissions.