schooner@law.edu

Heidi Mandanis Schooner joined the faculty at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, in 1993. Professor Schooner has visited on the law faculty of George Washington University and Suffolk University. As a practicing lawyer, Professor Schooner was acting general counsel of First American Metro Corp., a large, Washington, D.C. bank holding company. She also practiced in the General Counsel's Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission and as an associate with a private law firm. Professor Schooner received her Bachelor's degree from Duke University with honors and her juris doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Schooner has published numerous articles exploring the regulation of financial institutions. Her scholarship addresses issues ranging from the specific examination of the enforcement powers of bank regulators to broad scrutiny of efforts to modernize bank regulatory regimes. She teaches Contracts, Commercial Transactions, Banking Law, and Corporations.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Gringott’s: The Role of Banks in Harry Potter’s Wizarding World, in The Law and Harry Potter, Carolina Press (Frank Snyder ed., forthcoming 2006)

Functional Regulation: The Securitization of Banking Law, in Financial Modernization After Gramm-Leach-Bliley 189 (Patricia A. McCoy ed., 2002)

Registration and Regulatory Requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Other Securities Statutes, chapter in Banking Law (1998 Rel.) (the original version of this chapter was authored by Vincent Di Lorenzo) 

Depository Institution Regulators, chapter in Gary L. Edles and Jerome Nelson, Federal Regulatory Process:  Agency Practices and Procedures (2d ed., 1995 & 1997 Supp.)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Consuming Debt: Structuring the Federal Response to Abuses in Consumer Credit, Loyola Consumer Law Review (2006)

Bank Insolvency Regimes in the United States and the United Kingdom, 18 The Transnational Lawyer 385 (2005)

OCC Fumbles Over “Bank of Presidents,” The Financial Regulator, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2004)

Spitzer’s Main Street Beat, The Financial Regulator, Vol. 8, No. 4, at 21 (2004)

The Secrets of Bank Regulation: A Reply to Professor Cohen, 6 The Green Bag 2d 389 (2003)

Central Banks’ Role in Bank Supervision in the United States and United Kingdom, 28 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 411 (2003)

United Kingdom and United States Responses to the Regulatory Challenges of Modern Financial Markets, 38 Texas International Law Journal 317 (2003) (with Dr. Michael Taylor)

Popular Images of Bankers Reflected in Regulation, 5 The Green Bag 2d 27 (2001)

Convergence and Competition: The Case of Bank Regulation in Britain and the United States, 20 Michigan Journal of International Law 595 (1999) (with Dr. Michael Taylor)

Regulating Risk Not Function, 66 University of Cincinnati Law Review 441 (1998)

Will Citigroup Deliver Bad Law or Real Reform?, The Financial Regulator, Vol. 3, No. 1, at 33 (1998)

Refocusing Regulatory Limitations on Banks’ Compensation Practices, 37 Boston College Law Review 861 (1996)

Recent Challenges to the Persistent Dual Banking System, 41 St. Louis University Law Journal 263 (1996)

Fiduciary Duties' Demanding Cousin:  Bank Director Liability for Unsafe or Unsound Banking Practices, 63 George Washington Law Review 175 (1995)

Look Before You Lend: A Lender's Guide to Financing Government Contracts Pursuant to the Assignment of Claims Act, 48 Business Lawyer 535 (1993) (with Steve Schooner)

False Claims: Third Annual Survey of White Collar Crime, 22 American Criminal Law Review 367 (1985)

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Why didn’t Enron’s board and watchdog howl?, Houston Chronicle, February 4, 2002, at 25A