Bio
Professor John Crawford teaches courses in financial regulation, securities regulation, business associations, and property law. His research focuses on the regulation of financial markets and institutions. He joined the UC Law SF faculty in 2011, after serving as a lecturer and teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. Prior to his fellowship, he worked as a corporate associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell and clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Before law school, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Haiti and worked at an international development consulting firm.
Education
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Stanford Law School
J.D., Law 2006 -
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
M.A., International Relations and Economics 2006 -
University of Notre Dame
B.A., Philosophy 1995
Selected Scholarship
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A Threshold Test for Fed Activism
16 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 1 2024 -
The Dollar Dilemma : Hegemony, Control, and the Dollar's International Role
18 Virginia Law & Business Review 149 2023 -
Radicalism and Democracy in Monetary System Reform
Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc: Vol. 75: Iss. 1, Article 3 2022 -
FedAccounts: Digital Dollars
with Morgan Ricks & Lev Menand, 89 George Washington Law Review 113 2021 -
Safe Money
104 Marq. L. Rev. 411 2020 -
Resolution Triggers for Systemically Important Financial Institutions
Nebraska Law Review 2018 -
The Moral Hazard Paradox of Financial Safety Nets
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 2015 -
'Single Point of Entry': The Promise and Limits of the Latest Cure for Bailouts
Northwestern University Law Review Online 2014 -
Wargaming Financial Crises: The Problem of (In)Experience and Regulator Expertise
Review of Banking and Financial Law 2014 -
Capital Accounts: Bank Capital, Crises, and the Determinants of an Optimal Regulatory Approach
UC Law SF Journal 2014 -
Predicting Failure
Virginia Law and Business Review 2012