Prof. Nizan Geslevich Packin

Prof. Nizan Geslevich Packin joined the faculty after almost a decade as a faculty member at the City University of New York, and after teaching as an external lecturer at NYU. Prof. Packin researches and teaches issues related to business law, financial regulation and technology, in which she also dealt for years as a lawyer in New York at the Skadden Arps office in the banking and corporate recovery groups.

Prof. Packin clerked in the Supreme Court of Israel, in the office of Judge Salim Jubran. She worked as a student at the FTC – the Federal Antitrust Authority, and served as a student-intern with Judge Jack Weinstein at the Federal District Court in New York. She is an opinion columnist for Forbes, where she writes about issues related to financial regulation, and has published opinion columns in leading newspapers such as Calcalist, Globes, the Wall Street Journal, American Banker, Newsday and Bottom Line. She has been quoted in the digital press on sites such as COINDESK, BUSINESS INSIDER, YAHOO FINANCE and more.

Articles

• Translating Science To Policy For The Protection Of Children In Cyberspace, Science (March 2023), With Michal Gilad, Diana H. Fishbein, and Gideon Nave.
• The Matrix of Privacy: Data Infrastructure in the AI-Powered Metaverse, Harvard Law & Policy Review (forthcoming 2023) with Argyri Panezi and Leon Anidjar
• Decentralized Credit Scoring: Black Box 3.0, American Business Law Journal (forthcoming 2024) with Yafit Lev-Aretz
• Nizan Geslevich Packin, Financial Inclusion Gone Wrong: Securities and Crypto Assets Trading For Children, Hastings Law Journal (2023)
• “ESG, Crypto, and What Has the IRS Got To Do With It?, Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy (2023) (with Sean Stein Smith).
• Nizan Geslevich Packin, Ranking Season: Combating Commercial Banks’ Systemic Discrimination of Consumers, The American Business Law Journal (ABLJ) (2022)(with Srinivas Nippani)”
• Nizan Geslevich Packin, Show Me the (Data About the) Money!, 2020 Utah L. Rev. 5, 1277 (2021).
• Nizan Geslevich Packin, In Too-Big-To-Fail We Trust: Ethics and Banking in the Era of COVID-19, 2020 Wis. L. Rev. 1043 (2020).
• Nizan Geslevich Packin, Consumer Finance and AI: The Death of Second Opinions?, 22 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 101 (2020).
• RegTech, Compliance and Technology Judgment Rule, 93 Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium 193 (2018).
• Too-Big-To-Fail 2.0: Cybersecurity & Digital Service Providers, 93 Indiana Law Journal (2018); also featured at the Oxford Business Law Blog.
• Distributed Governance, 59 William and Mary Law Review Online 1 (2017) (with Carla L. Reyes & Benjamin P. Edwards).
• Regulating Culture: Improving Corporate Governance with Anti-Arbitration Provisions for Whistleblowers, 58 William and Mary Law Review Online 41 (2016) (with Benjamin P. Edwards).
• Big Data and Social Netbanks: Are You Ready to Replace Your Bank?, 53 Houston Law Review 1211 (2016) (with Yafit Lev Aretz).
• Social Credit And The Right To Be Unnetworked, 2016 Columbia Business Law Review 2 (2016)(with Yafit Lev Aretz).
• Breaking Bad: Big Banks Not Guilty As Not Charged,  91:4 Washington University Law Review, (2014).
• “It’s (Not) All About the Money: Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Regulation of Risk Management in Financial Institutions,” 15 The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 2 (2013); also featured at the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum.
• “The Case Against the Dodd-Frank Act’s Living Wills: Contingency Planning Following the Financial Crisis,” 9 The Berkeley Business Law Journal (2013); also featured at the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum.

Chapters in Books

• Children in the securities markets: the wrong kind of financial inclusion” in YOLO Capitalism: Perspectives on Retail Investors in Modern Financial Markets (Usman W. Chohan, Sven Van Kerckhoven ed., Routledge Press (2022 – forthcoming).
• Book Chapter: Algorithmic Analysis of Social Behavior for Profiling, Ranking, and Assessment in Cambridge Handbook on the Law of Algorithms Woodrow Barfield & Ugo Pagallo ed., Cambridge Press, (2020) (with Yafit Lev Aretz)
• Book Chapter: Learning Algorithms and Discrimination In RESEARCH HANDBOOK OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND (with Yafit lev Aretz) (2018) LAW (Woodrow Barfield & Ugo Pagallo eds.)
• “Big Data, Alternative Credit and Underserved Populations” (with Yafit Lev-Aretz) in Electronic Payments in the 21st Century, ABA Publishing, Edward A. Morse, Editor (2017) (with Yafit Lev Aretz)).

Literature Review

• A Review of “Banking Regulation in Israel. Prudential Regulation versus Consumer Protection,” by Ruth Plato-Shinar, published by Wolters Kluwer, in The Banking and Finance Law Review (2018).

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Economics (BA), University of Haifa (2005).
• Bachelor of Laws (LLM) Columbia University New York City (2007).
• Doctor of Laws (SJD), Faculty of Law, University of Pennsylvania (2014).
• Visiting Researcher, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2015).
• Researcher at the Forum for Leading Cyber ​​Policy, Center for Global Legal Challenges in the Faculty of Law, Yale University (2020-2021).