Banking & Finance

David B. Wilkins, Making Context Count — Regulating Lawyers After Kaye, Scholer, 66 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1145 (1993).

Christine A. Desan, Democratic Sovereignty and the Prerogative to Make Money: The Case of the Federal Reserve, SSRN (Feb. 17, 2026).

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

Christine A. Desan, Property, Money, and the Claim of Capital (Harvard Pub. L. Working Paper No. 24-20, 2024).

Christine Desan, Money as a Practice of Value: Creating a Respiratory System for Capital, 82 The William and Mary Quarterly 355 (2025).

A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment (Christine Desan ed., 2021).

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

Christine Desan,
Über die Verfasstheit des Geldes : die Produktion der modernen Welt und die Gestaltung von Geld, 28 Mittelweg 103 (2019) (Ger.).

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, 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, Introduction in, A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment (Bill Maurer & Christine A. Desan eds., (Bloomsbury 2021).

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

Christine A. Desan, Money’s Design Elements: Debt, Liquidity, and the Pledge of Value from Medieval Coin to Modern “Repo” 38 Banking Fin. L. Rev. 331…

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).

Christine A. Desan, Money as a Legal Project, in Money in the Western Legal Tradition 18 (David Fox & Wolfgang Ernst eds., Oxford Univ. Press…

Christine A. Desan, Decoding the Design of Money, Eur. Fin. Rev., Feb./Mar. 2015.

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

Christine A. Desan, From Blood to Profit: The Transformation of Value in the American Constitutional Tradition, 20 J. Pol’y Hist. 26 (2008).