Welcome
John Hunt
Contact Information
jphunt@ucdavis.edu
530-752-5052
Rm. 2128 King Hall
Education
- A.B., summa cum laude Russian and Soviet Studies, Harvard University 1991, Phi Beta Kappa
- J.D., Yale Law School 1995
- M.F.E. Financial Engineering, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley 2007
Acting Professor of Law
John Patrick Hunt’s area of scholarly interest is the regulation of financial markets and institutions. His current areas of interest include the role of credit rating agencies in capital regulation and their incentives for good performance, mortgage securitization and modification, and potential long-term changes to legal rules to mitigate the effects of financial bubbles. Before joining the UC Davis faculty in 2009, John was Research Director of the Law and Finance Program at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. He has also worked as a regulatory lawyer and litigator at two major law firms and as a credit derivatives research analyst. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Master’s in Financial Engineering from the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Special Interests
Regulation of the Financial Industry, ContractsSelected Career Highlights
- Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, Research Director, Law and Finance Program, 2008-2009
- Credit Derivatives Research LLC, Senior Research Analyst, 2007-08
- Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP,1999-2005
More Career Highlights...- United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Law clerk to Judge Stephen F. Williams, 1998-99
- Shearman & Sterling LLP,1995-98
- Executive Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation
Selected Publications
- One Cheer for the Rating Agencies: How the Mark-to-Market Accounting Debate Highlights the Case for Rating-Dependent Regulation, 60 S.C. L. Rev. 749
- Rating Agencies and the ‘Worldwide Credit Crisis’: The Limits of Reputation, the Insufficiency of Reform, and a Proposal for Improvement, 2009 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 109
- What Do Subprime Securitization Contracts Actually Say About Loan Modifications? Preliminary Results and Implications, March 2009 (BCLBE white paper)
- A Guide to the Financial Bailout Regulation, October 2008 (BCLBE white paper)
More Publications...- The SEC’s Proposed Rating Agency Rules: Unresolved Conflicts, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, June 2008. (BCLBE white paper)
- Hedge Fund Regulation: The President’s Working Group Committees’ Best Practices Reports, Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy, June 2008 (BCLBE white paper)
