Hal S. Scott (born 1943) is the Director of the

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, Co-Chair of the Council on Global Financial Regulation, an independent director of

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, Ltd., a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. He is a past President of the International Academy of Consumer and Commercial Law and a past Governor of the

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(2002–2005). He is the Nomura Professor and Director of the Program on International Financial Systems at

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, where he has taught since 1975. He teaches courses on Capital Markets Regulation,

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, the

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, and

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. Professor Scott's books include the law school textbook International Finance: Transactions, Policy and Regulation (19th ed. Foundation Press 2012); International Finance: Law and Regulation (3rd ed. Sweet and Maxwell 2012) and The Global Financial Crisis (Foundation Press 2009).Harvard Law School: Representative publications
/ref> Professor Scott has a B.A. from

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(

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, 1965), an M.A. from

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in Political Science (1967), and a J.D. from the

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(1972). In 1974-1975, before joining Harvard, he clerked for Justice Byron White.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Hal S 1943 births Harvard Law School faculty Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Living people Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni Stanford University alumni University of Chicago Law School alumni

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