Faculty of Law » Dr. Nizan Geslevich Packin

Dr. Nizan Geslevich Packin
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- Financial Regulation
- Consumer Protection
- Business Law
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- FinTech
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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).
Op-Eds:
- Policing banks’ ‘conduct risk’ should be a formalized regulatory duty, American Banker, August 17, 2023 (With Srinivas Nippani)
- Automation’s Hidden Costs: The Case Against A Paywalled Human Touch, Forbes, May 22, 2023
- When VCs Benefit From FDIC Funds: Examining The Implications, Forbes, Jun 23, 2023
- FTX Is On Fire, ButWhere Is Its “Break The Glass” Plan?,Forbes, Nov. 17, 2022.
- Protecting Our ChildrenIn Cyberspace: What Are We Missing?,Forbes, Nov. 10, 2022.
- Artificial Intelligence Products Cannot Be Moral Agents. TheTech Industry Must Be Held Responsible For What It Develops, Toronto Star,Aug. 7, 2022, with Ori Freiman.
- Bankruptcy and Crypto, Forbes,Jul 15, 2022.
- The Robot Are Coming and WeNeed to Change the Rules For Them?, Calcalist, July 5, 2022, withOri Freiman .(Heb.)
- When Crypto Crashes Is It the Government’s Job to Stabelize?, Globes, June 2, 2022, with Moran Koren (Heb.)
- Regulation by Enforcement and Crypto Assets, Forbes, Feb. 8, 2022.
- 8. The Challenges and Risks: ADigital Shekel on the Blockchain?, Globes, August 8 2, 2021, withMoran Koren & Hadar Jabotinsky (Heb.)
- It’s Time For The CFPB To Empower Consumers With Their Data,?, Forbes, July 26, 2021.
- 2. Securities Trading For Children: Sound Investment Education Or An Early Gambling Addiction?, Forbes, June 8, 2021.
- Banking And Societal Impact — It’s Time To Step It Up!, Forbes, May 2, 2021.
- Antitrust Is Back: A Q&A With The Experts, Forbes, Dec. 14, 2020.
- Will A COVID-19 Vaccine Inoculate FinTech Startups Or Lead To Their Demise?, Forbes, Dec. 11, 2020.
- Restructuring America’s Plans, Forbes, May 17, 2020.
- We Need Ethical Banking In The Era Of COVID-19, Forbes, April 25, 2020.
- Let Fintech Help Jumpstart the Economy!, Forbes, April 9, 2020.
- Show Me The (Data About The) Money! What You Didn’t Know About Data Aggregation Can Hurt You, Forbes, January 27, 2020.
- Social Credit: Much More Than Your Traditional Financial Credit Score Data, Forbes, December 13, 2019.
- Beware the Hazards of Robo Advisors, BottomLineInc, December 16, 2019.
- Why Investors Should Be Wary of Automated Advice, Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2019.
- Big Banks Vs. Silicon Valley Startups: Whose Customer Financial Data Is It Anyway?, Forbes, April 19, 2019.
- Is RegTech The Answer To Corporate Governance And Risk Management Issues?, Forbes, February 8, 2019.
- Why We Still Want Humans, And Not (Just) Robots, To Invest Our Money, Forbes, December 18, 2018.
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, But That May Be Where Big Tech Is Heading, Forbes, November 16, 2018.
- Where Is Donald Trump Headed on Financial Regulations? Op-Ed, Newsday, January 19, 2017.
- Don’t Let Facebook Likes Sway Credit Decisions, Op-Ed, American Banker, June 17, 2016, with Yafit Lev-Aretz.
- Facebook & Google’s Next Step: Financial Services, Op-Ed, Calcalist Israeli Daily, March 3, 2016 with Yafit Lev-Aretz.(Heb.)
Podcasts & Other Publications:
- The End of Crypto?, Hatzolelet, Globes, Dcember 2022.
- Are Cryptoassets Really Cryptic?, Zicklin Talks Business, Webinar Series, December 14, 2021.
- The New Globalisation, Future Tense podcast, ABC News Australia, November 22, 2021.
- The Business Scholarship Podcast – “Financial and Corporate Regulation in the Biden Administration,” December 2020, at www.andrewkjennings.com/Biden-symposium
- Wisconsin Law Review – Forward, PODCAST EPISODE, The Legal Impact of COVID-19, at https://open.spotify.com/episode/28BUmbZxpYJAsA82aqhwVY?si=EcHk3ly8Rg-bu4S3NTEQgA
- The Academic (AKA The Sub0 Podcast), Season 1, Ep. 23, March 9, 2020, at https://nsub0.com/2020/03/01/23-nizan-packin-the-positives-negatives-of-our-inevitable-fintech-future/
- Financial Technology & Regulation, Season 1, Ep. 288, Ipse Dixit (a podcast on legal scholarship. Each episode of Ipse Dixit features a different guest discussing their scholarship), June 27, 2019, at https://shows.pippa.io/ipse-dixit/episodes/nizan-packin-on-financial-technology-regulation
- Zicklin Spotlight: Professor Nizan Geslevich Packin, August 5, 2019, (a Zicklin School of Business series on professors’ scholarship. Each episode features different professors discussing their scholarship), at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZC88RlHL6A