Michael Barr is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. As the assistant secretary of the treasury, Barr was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Barr is an expert on domestic and international financial regulation, housing finance policy, and the U.S. economy.
Experience
Current Positions
- Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Past Positions
- U.S. Department of Treasury's Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions
- Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin’s Special Assistant
- Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
- Special Advisor to President William J. Clinton
- special advisor and counselor on the policy planning staff at the State Department
- law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter
- Nonresident Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings
Education
- J.D. from Yale Law School
- M. Phil in International Relations from Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar
- B.A., summa cum laude, with Honors in History, from Yale University