Biography

Peter Conti–Brown is an Academic Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance. Conti-Brown writes in the areas of banking, bankruptcy, corporate, and administrative law, with a particular focus on the law, economics, and history of financial and fiscal crises, debt regulation, central banking, and corporate governance for banks and other financial institutions.

His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review, among others. Conti-Brown is also the editor, with David Skeel, of When States Go Broke: Origins, Context, and Solutions for the American States in Fiscal Crisis, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He has been quoted by Reuters, The Economist, The New York Times, US News and World Report, and by other print and online news publications.

He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and Stanford Law School, and will be a PhD candidate in history, specializing in economic and financial history, at Princeton University, in residence beginning in the fall of 2013.

Key Works

• Peter Conti-Brown, Elective Shareholder Liability, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 97; Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 408; 64 Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2012).
• Peter Conti-Brown, Scarcity Amidst Wealth: The Law, Finance, and Culture of Elite University Endowments in Financial Crisis, 63 Stanford Law Review 699 (2011).
• Peter Conti-Brown, A Proposed Fat-Tail Risk Metric: Disclosures, Derivatives and the Measurement of Financial Risk, 87 Washington University Law Review 1461 (2010).

Publications & Cases

• Peter Conti-Brown, A Stuntzian Approach to Business Law Scholarship (Afterword), in Financing Innovation: Venture Capital, Intellectual Property, and Financial Engineering, F. Scott Kieff, editor, London: Routledge Press (forthcoming 2012).
• Peter Conti-Brown, Elective Shareholder Liability, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 97; Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 408; 64 Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2012).
• Anat Admati, Peter Conti-Brown, Paul Pfleiderer, Liability Holding Companies, 59 UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2012); Also Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 103 and Stanford Law and Economics Olin Research Paper No. 416 .
• Peter Conti-Brown, The Scholarship of Finance and Innovation (Introduction), in Financing Innovation: Venture Capital, Intellectual Property, and Financial Engineering, F. Scott Kieff, editor, London: Routledge Press (forthcoming 2012).
• Peter Conti-Brown, The Accidental History of the Federal Banking and Securities Laws: A Review of Michael Perino's Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance, 39 Securities Regulation Law Journal 45 (2011).
• Peter Conti-Brown, The Perennial Crisis in the American States, presented at the program: When States Go Broke: Origins, Context, and Solution for the American States in Fiscal Crisis, held May 13, 2011 at Stanford Law School.
• Peter Conti-Brown, Scarcity Amidst Wealth: The Law, Finance, and Culture of Elite University Endowments in Financial Crisis, 63 Stanford Law Review 699 (2011).
• Peter Conti-Brown, Increasing the Capacity for Corruption? : Law and Development in the Burgeoning Petro-State of São Tomé e Príncipe, 12 Berkeley Journal of African American Law & Policy 33 (2010)
• Peter Conti-Brown, A Proposed Fat-Tail Risk Metric: Disclosures, Derivatives and the Measurement of Financial Risk, 87 Washington University Law Review 1461 (2010).