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Robert C. Hockett is an American law professor and Edward Cornell Professor of Law.[1] at Cornell Law School [2]

Career

Hockett is an expert in banking and financial institutions, corporate law, and finance and trade law[3], frequently publishing and commenting as a legal expert on those topics in news publications and programs such as National Public Radio[4] Newsweek [5] Barron's[6] The Wall Street Journal[7] and The Economist[8]. He has been a member of the Cornell Law School faculty since 2004 and became the Edward Cornell Professor of Law in 2014. Since 2012, Hockett has been a fellow with the Century Foundation[9], a progressive public policy think tank. [10]

Hockett is a leading advocate of proposals exploring the use of eminent domain to purchase underwater mortgages from homeowners[11][12] [13] and has advised municipalities[8] on the issue and testified before Congress on the subject in 2012.[14]

Hockett earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kansas where he was also selected as a Rhodes Scholar in 1983[15]. While at Oxford he earned a Master's in Philosophy & Economics and later earned LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale University[16]. Hockett also served as a law clerk Judge Deanell Reece Tacha, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Publications

Selected Publications

  • ‘We Don’t Follow, We Lead’: How New York Will Save Mortgage Loans Nationally by Condemning Them Locally, 124 Yale Law Journal 131 (2014)
  • A Federalist Blessing in Disguise: From National Inaction to Local Action on Underwater Mortgage Loans, 7 Harvard Law & Policy Review 253 (2013) (with John Vlahoplus)
  • Paying Paul and Robbing No One: An Eminent Domain Solution for Underwater Mortgage Debt, 19 (5) Current Issues In Economics & Finance 1 (2013)
  • Were ‘It’ to Happen: Contract Continuity Under Euro Regime Change, 34 University OF Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 277 (2013)
  • It Takes a Village: Municipal Condemnation Proceedings as Underwater Mortgage Cure, 18 Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance 121 (2013)
  • Six Years On and Still Counting: Sifting Through the Mortgage Mess, 9 Hastings Business Law Journal 373 (2013)
  • A Fixer-Upper for Finance, 87 Washington University Law Review 1213 (2010)

References

  1. ^ Instructional and Web Services, Cornell Information Technologies. "Professorships A-M". cornell.edu.
  2. ^ Instructional and Web Services, Cornell Information Technologies. "Robert_Hockett, Banking and Financial Institutions, Corporate Law, International Development, Finance and Trade Law". cornell.edu.
  3. ^ "United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs : Hearings". senate.gov.
  4. ^ "Citigroup Settlement Offers Former Homeowners 'Cold Comfort'". NPR.org. 15 July 2014.
  5. ^ "UK's Serious Fraud Office Grills Traders Over Europe-Wide Rate Fixing Scandal". Newsweek. 9 March 2015.
  6. ^ Dimitra DeFotis. "Third Bailout? Greece Says It Won't Run Out Of Cash, In March". Barrons.
  7. ^ Ahmed Al Omran in Riyadh And Nikhil Lohade in Dubai (16 April 2015). "Saudi Arabia to Open Stock Market to Foreign Investors on June 15". WSJ.
  8. ^ a b http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21592644-radical-plan-help-underwater-homeowners-makes-comeback-not-waving
  9. ^ Allen McDuffee (6 April 2012). "Robert Hockett, Cornell law professor, joins The Century Foundation". Washington Post.
  10. ^ ": Experts & Staff". tcf.org.
  11. ^ "Should Eminent Domain Be Used to Save Underwater Homes?". TIME.com.
  12. ^ Can Cities Use Eminent Domain To Seize Mortgage Loans?. YouTube. 19 July 2012.
  13. ^ http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?play=1&video=3000189052
  14. ^ http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/spotlights/upload/Testimony-of-Robert-Hockett-11-September-2012-Third-Round.pdf
  15. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/20/us/rhodes-scholarship-winners-include-the-first-from-city-u.html
  16. ^ http://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/faculty_cvs/Hockett.pdf


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