Center for Law & the Economy Workshop: Vijay Raghavan
Commercial Law Against Regulation
Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School
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Rescheduled (from September 19): The new date for this event is Friday, October 3rd, 2025 at 11:00-12:20 PM in Room 151 of Weinmann Hall.
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. Papers are distributed beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter.
The workshops, organized by Adam Feibelman, Director of the Center on Law and the Economy and Sumter D. Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, are open to faculty, students, and the Tulane community. The Fall 2025 workshop series, co-convened by Associate Professor of Law and Murphy Affiliate Faculty Mateusz Grochowski, will focus on themes in consumer law, broadly construed.
Vijay Raghavan teaches and writes in the areas of consumer financial protection, secured transactions, and contracts. His articles have appeared in the Boston College Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, and the Utah Law Review. He is presently working on a paper exploring the making and remaking of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code from 1949 to the present. He is the Co-Director of the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship
Before joining Brooklyn Law School, Professor Raghavan served as Deputy Director of Financial Institutions at the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation and Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Fraud Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General. His prior experience includes creating a low-income taxpayer clinic at Prairie State Legal Services and practicing tax law at Skadden, Arps.
