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Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, a fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, a research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the immediate past president of the American Finance Association.  Duffie's research concerns valuation and risk in financial markets. He is the author, most recently, of  How Big Banks Fail— and What to Do about It and a coauthor of The Squam Lake Report—Fixing the Financial System (both published by Princeton University Press in 2010).

Thomas H. Jackson is currently a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Rochester where he also served as ninth president from 1994 to 2005. Before that Jackson was vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, which he first joined in 1988 as dean of Virginia’s School of Law. He has also been professor of law at Harvard (1986–88) and served on the Stanford University faculty (1977–86). A 1972 graduate of Williams College, Jackson earned his law degree from Yale in 1975. He first clerked for U.S. District Court judge Marvin E. Frankel in New York (1975–76) and then for Supreme Court justice (later chief justice) William H. Rehnquist (1976–77). The author of bankruptcy and commercial law texts used in law schools across the country, he has served as special master for the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Kenneth E. Scott is the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business Emeritus and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research focuses on legislative and policy developments related to the financial crisis, comparative corporate governance, and bank regulation. He has extensive government consulting experience, including for the World Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Resolution Trust Corporation, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He is also a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, Financial Economists Roundtable, and the California State Bar’s Financial Institutions Committee. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1968, he was general counsel to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and worked in private practice in New York with Sullivan & Cromwell. His most recent book, coedited with George Shultz and John Taylor, is Ending Government Bailouts (2010).

David Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Oxford, 2005); and Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001), as well as many articles and book chapters. He has also has written commentaries for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Books & Culture, and other publications. In addition to bankruptcy and corporate law, Skeel also writes on Christianity and law and is coauthor (with Bill Stuntz) of the blog Less Than the Least.