Center on Financial Services Law

The Center on Financial Services Law begins offering programs in fall 2008. The Center will expand the number of specialized financial services law courses currently offered to J.D. students and develop hiring and recruitment opportunities for students and alumni who have an interest in financial services law. It will also provide a forum to discuss regulatory reforms and current issues facing this global industry and create new educational programs for industry legal and business professionals.

The Center on Financial Services Law is led by an expert in the field: Ronald H. Filler, former Managing Director in the Capital Markets Prime Services Division at Lehman Brothers.

Professor Filler has served on numerous industry boards and advisory committees during his career and, most recently, as a member of the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee, the CME Clearing House Risk Operating Committee, The Clearing Corporation Board of Directors, and the FIA Law and Compliance Division Executive Committee. He has spoken at hundreds of industry conferences and seminars during his more than 30 years in the futures and derivatives legal fields and has taught several different courses at four U.S. law schools as an adjunct professor of law. He founded the Commodities Law Institute at Chicago Kent College of Law in 1978 which became the futures industry's leading academic law program through 1995.