Tayyab Mahmud
Tayyab Mahmud, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Global Justice, Seattle University School of Law
PIGS & iTraxx SovX: All Greek or déjà vu all over again?: Winner and Losers of the Neoliberal De/regulation of Global Financial Markets
Synopsis: Professor Mahmud will discuss how today’s debt crisis of Greece has brought into contention the state of global financial markets. Contrary to the ubiquitous mythologies of neoliberal globalization, the reordering of global financial markets over the last 30 years has distributed both gain and pain – from exercising along an entrenched global distribution of power – between the haves and have-nots. The genealogy of this ordering, running from the “Volcker-Shock” to the current specter of sovereign debt meltdowns, shows that while the power of finance capital has been augmented, the poor and working classes have lost out. The Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the “Asian Flu” of 1997, and the “Great Recession” of 2008-09 only substantiate this reading of the unending battle between global finance capital and the wretched of the earth.
Biography: Professor Tayyab Mahmud is a Professor of Law and Director, Center for Global Justice at Seattle University School of Law. He started his career as a law professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Later he was Professor of Law and Chair, Global Perspectives Group, at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He is a past Co-President of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). Currently, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of SALT, and the Steering Committee of Latina/o Critical Legal Studies, Inc. (LatCrit). He has served on the editorial boards of The American Journal of Comparative Law, Hastings Int’l & Comparative Law Review, Journal of Third World Legal Studies, and the Journal of Humanities Research. He has published extensively in the areas of comparative constitutional law, human rights, international law, legal history and legal theory.
