PROFESSOR HARRIS WEINSTEIN
Distinguished Lecturer, The Catholic University of America
Comments on the Global Financial Crisis
Venue: Cracow, ul. Bracka 12, room TBA in the reminder
Time: Thursday, 12 March 2009, 6:30 PM
PETER HARRIS WEINSTEIN is a senior counsel at Covington & Burling LLP and a distinguished lecturer at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. He joined Covington & Burling in 1962 and has practiced law there for 42 of the past 47 years. He retired from the partnership in 2004 and is now a senior counsel of the firm. His practice has focused on complex civil litigation covering a broad range of subject matters. He has appeared in federal district courts throughout the country and has argued appeals in a majority of the United States Courts of Appeals. He has also argued nine cases in the U.S. Supreme Court.
From 1990 to 1992, Weinstein served as chief counsel of the Office of Thrift Supervision in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. From 1967 to 1969, he was an assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice. In 1961-1962, he was law clerk to Judge William H. Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His tenure at the Treasury Dept. was during the “clean-up” period of the savings and loan crisis of the early 1990s. Under his leadership, the legal staff of the agency obtained over 1500 civil enforcement orders against fiduciaries and professionals of failed institutions.
Weinstein received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned an LL.B. from Columbia University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review.
