Waleed Y. W. Haj Hasan

Waleed is an Associate Attorney (Corporate) at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. He is simultaneously pursuing an SJD at Penn in Economic Analysis of Monetary Law and Policy. Waleed is an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law in the State of NY and earned his LLM, with the Wharton Business and Law Certificate, from the University of Pennsylvania (2020) and his LL.B. (Hons.) from the University of Edinburgh (2019). Waleed held several Teaching Assistant positions at both the Law School and The Wharton School. During his doctorate, Waleed interned with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (U.S. CFTC) for six months; having, previously, externed at the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General and completed internships at Baker Botts LL.P. (London, UK), Hadef & Partners (Dubai, UAE), and Dentons (Amman, Jordan).

Dissertation

Dissertation Title:  ‘Of interest: a treatise on the legal conception of the time value of money’. It will start with an assessment of the historical evolution of the values, attitudes, and beliefs underpinning the philosophical and legal treatment of, and thought around, interest (‘carentia pecuniae’). Waleed will, then, explore the private law, central banking, and tax treatment of interest; from which he will inductively infer, from the first principles, a legal conception of interest. He will conclude the project, drawing on all preceding work and a normative economic framework, by offering a discussion on reform.

Dissertation Committee

Prof. Michael S. Knoll (Penn Law/The Wharton School); Prof. Daniel M. G. Raff (The Wharton School), another to be appointed.

Representative Publications

• Cyber-currencies: A Sui Generis form of money in Common Law?
• Hedge funds’ use of derivatives for empty voting in M&A