Faculty Chair, International Finance: Policy, Regulation, and Transactions
Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems, Emeritus
Hal S. Scott is the Emeritus Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School (HLS), where he taught from 1975-2018. His HLS courses were on Capital Markets Regulation, International Finance, the Payment System and Securities Regulation. He is currently an adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he teaches Capital Market Regulation.
He has a B.A. from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School, 1965), an M.A. from Stanford University in Political Science (1967), and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (1972). In 1974-1975, before joining Harvard, he clerked for Justice Byron White.
He is the Director of the Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS), founded in 1986, as part of Harvard Law School, which became independent in 2018. Besides doing research, the Program organizes the annual invitation-only U.S.-China, U.S.-Europe, and U.S.-Japan Symposia on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, and special event roundtables. HLS is the non-financial sponsor or these events. In addition, PIFS partners with Executive Education at HLS in offering executive education for financial regulators.