Throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will host a major university-wide lecture series on race and regulation. Organized by the Penn Program on Regulation, the series seeks to enhance and foster inquiry into how government regulation has contributed to racial inequities as well as how changes to regulatory policies could be used to dismantle racist structures in society.
For generations, Black financial regulators have been virtually absent across the United States government – a state of affairs that is deeply problematic from the standpoint of participatory democracy and economic inclusion. Their absence prevents the Black community from being represented in policy decisions that impact it profoundly and that affect the racial wealth gap. Brummer will share his latest research and discuss what the data indicate about the causes of the longstanding racial disparities in financial regulatory leadership.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation.
Co-sponsored by the Law School’s Office of Equity & Inclusion, this series is part of the “Achieving Racial Justice” colloquium launched last year.
All Race and Regulation lectures this fall will be held over Zoom, from 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET, and are free and open to the public.