Lev Menand

Lev Menand is an associate professor of law and director of the Center for Law and the Economy at Columbia Law School. Menand teaches financial institutions and administrative law and has written extensively on both subjects, including a book on the Federal Reserve, The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis.  In 2022, Menand co-authored a new casebook on the law of Networks, Platforms, and Utilities. Prior to joining the faculty, Menand served as senior adviser to the deputy secretary of the Treasury and as senior adviser to the assistant secretary for Financial Institutions. Menand was previously an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the Supervision Group and Research and Statistics Group, where he helped to develop econometric models for the Federal Reserve System’s first Comprehensive Capital Assessment and Review. While at the New York Fed, Menand was seconded to the Financial Stability Oversight Council, where he helped to prepare the council’s first financial stability report.