The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards, and a Shrinking Safety Net

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren

Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard University

Jefferson Memorial Lectures

March 8, 2007 — 4:10 PM
International House Auditorium — 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

About the Lecture

Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of America’s credit economy, which she has linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class.

About Elizabeth Warren

According to Warren, she has “spent decades writing academic books and teaching an entire generation of law students about the rules of money.” Those “rules” include the formal statutes of commercial law, the policy issues inherent in them, and the ethical problems they can produce. Warren joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1992 and has served as the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law since 1995.


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