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Democracy Journal: Markets and the Law (Book Review)
Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran’s book, “The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America” (W.W. Norton 2024), is reviewed by Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
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Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran Recognized in the Los Angeles Times as part of its L.A. Influential, Civic Center Feature
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Los Angeles Times: Mehrsa Baradaran: Translator of dollars and sense
Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran was recognized in the Los Angeles Times as part of its L.A. Influential, Civic Center feature, highlighting “changemakers who are shaping every cultural corner of Los Angeles.”
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Faculty Roundup: The latest highlights from UCI Law’s faculty (May 2024)
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Houston Public Media: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran
LISTEN: Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran joins “I SEE U” host Eddie Robinson to discuss how the Civil Rights movement and advocacy for economic justice by Black activists catalyzed the emergence of neoliberalism.
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Black Enterprise: How Redlining and Banking Impact Generational Wealth
Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran is cited from a 2020 interview discussing the racial wealth gap and how that impacts access to traditional banking methods.
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Bloomberg Law: Banks Face Fresh Anti-Redlining Rules From Top US Watchdogs
Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran comments on the recent update to the U.S. banking regulators and their rules tackling redlining.
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MarketWatch: The best of the best new ideas in money
Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran discusses the problem of unbanked and underbanked communities, and the concept of postal banking.
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BBN Bloomberg: With ‘Everybody Else’ Dead or Gone, One California Bank Thrives
Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran was quoted in BNN Bloomberg on turmoil surrounding California banks.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Cites UCI Law Professor Mehrsa Baradaran’s Book 15 Times in Dissent on Affirmative Action Case
IRVINE, Calif. (June 29, 2023) — University of California, Irvine School of Law Professor Mehrsa Baradaran’s book, “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap” (Harvard University Press, 2017), was cited 15 times in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard…
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Just Money conference at Harvard Law School, panel “Money and Empire: Past, Present, and the Future of the Dollar System”
WATCH: Prof. Baradaran spoke at the Just Money conference at Harvard Law School on the panel for “Money and Empire: Past, Present, and the Future of the Dollar System”
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New York Magazine: Affirmative Action Never Had a Chance
Prof. Baradaran was cited in the New York Magazine on “black capitalism” and the conservative backlash to the civil-rights era
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The Wall Street Journal: How the Supreme Court, Like the Fed, Reshapes Your Finances
Prof. Baradaran was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on how the Supreme Court reshapes your finances
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New York Times Magazine: The High Cost of Bad Credit
Prof. Baradaran was cited in The New York Times Magazine on “Jim Crow credit”
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Marketplace: How will banking change amid wreckage of SVB, First Republic?
Prof. Baradaran was quoted in Marketplace on bank consolidation and what that means for businesses located in lower-income and rural communities
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Marketplace: Smaller banks keep a close watch over their liquidity
Prof. Baradaran speaks to Marketplace about liquidity in smaller banks and concerns about the move to larger banks amid the banking crisis
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Yahoo News: Bank collapse hits home for Black-owned banks as Republicans blame ‘woke’ culture
Prof. Baradaran comments in Yahoo News on recent bank collapses hitting home for Black-owned banks as Republicans blame ‘woke’ culture
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Vox: How crypto failed Black investors
Prof. Mehrsa Baradaran was quoted in Vox in “How crypto failed Black investors.”
