Jeffery Zhang is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. He teaches and writes on financial regulation, law and economics, and digital assets. 

His research has been published or is forthcoming in various journals, including the Stanford Law Review and University of Chicago Law Review. 

Before joining Michigan Law, Zhang served as a senior attorney in the Federal Reserve Board’s Legal Division and, before that, as an economist in the Board’s Division of Supervision and Regulation. He also served in the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama and Biden administrations.

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Education
  • Boston College, BA
  • Harvard University, JD
  • Yale University, PhD, economics

    • Recent Courses

    Featured Scholarship

    "Shadow Banking and Securities Law"

    Stanford Law Review
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    "Creditors, Shareholders, and Losers In Between: A Failed Regulatory Experiment"

    Cornell Law Review

    MLaw Repository SSRN WWW

    "Taming Wildcat Stablecoins"

    University of Chicago Law Review
    MLaw Repository SSRN HEIN
    • Law and Technology

    "Sanctioning Negligent Bankers"

    Stanford Law Review

    SSRN
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    News and Events

    A view of the Reading Room through the Law Library Windows.
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    5Qs: Rauterberg and Zhang Discuss Using Securities Law to Minimize Risk from Shadow Banking

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    Michigan Law Hosts Annual Conference of American Law and Economics Association

    Emily Prifogle teaching a mini seminar.
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    Mini-seminars Teach Major Lessons

    Professor Jeffery Zhang standing in front of the Federal Reserve building
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    Washington Economist and Lawyer Jeffery Zhang Joins Michigan Law Faculty

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