Banking

Christine A. Desan, Legal Aspects of Money Creation, SSRN (Jan. 27, 2025).

Christine Desan & Nathan Tankus, Public Banking in the United States: Historical Lesson for Today, 59 Willamette L. Rev. 331 (2023).

Christine A. Desan, The Key to Value: The Debate Over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money, in Constitutions of Value: Law, Governance and…

Christine A. Desan, How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: Our Monetary Hardwiring, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It (Harv. Pub. L., Working…

Christine A. Desan & Nadav Orian Peer, The Constitution and the Fed after the COVID-19 Crisis, Just Money (June 10, 2020).

Christine Desan, The Key to Value: The Debate over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money, 83 L. & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2020).

Christine Desan, Book Review, 16 Labor 136 (2019) (reviewing Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (2015)).

Christine Desan, The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity: A Constitutional Analysis, 86 Law & Contemp. Probs. 77 (2024).

Christine A. Desan, Strange New Music: The Monetary Composition Made by the Enlightenment Quartet (July 21, 2018).

American Capitalism: New Histories (Sven Beckert & Christine A. Desan eds., 2018).

Christine A. Desan, Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor, in The Blackwell Companion to American Legal History 269…

Christine A. Desan, The Constitutional Approach to Money: Monetary Design and the Production of the Modern World, in Money Talks 109 (Nina Bandelj, Frederick F.

Christine A. Desan, Creation Stories: Myths About the Origins of Money (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper 13-20, Jul. 30, 2013).

Christine A. Desan, Money as a Legal Institution, in Money in the Western Legal Tradition: Middle Ages to Bretton Woods 18 (David Fox & Wolfgang…

Christine A. Desan, Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism, in 2 Transformations in American Legal History: Law, Ideology, and Methods –…

Christine A. Desan, Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (Oxford Univ. Press 2014).

Christine A. Desan, Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court’s Monetary Decisions, 53 J. Econ. Literature 1036 (2015) (reviewing Richard H. Timberlake, Constitutional Money:…

Alan Dershowitz, Lost Your Job? You Shouldn’t Have to Lose Your Home, Wall St. J., Nov. 24, 2020.

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen & Holger Spamann, The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008, 27 Yale J. on Reg.

Margaret E. Tahyar, Jaap Willeumier, Eric J. Pan, Howell E. Jackson & Eilis Ferran, Final Report of the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Task Force…