Morgan Ricks

Morgan Ricks studies financial regulation. He is the author of The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation (University of Chicago Press, 2016), which offers a blueprint for a modernized system of money and banking that can be established through incremental change. Professor Ricks joined the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 2012 and was the 2019-21 Enterprise Scholar. Before he entered the legal academy, he was a senior policy advisor and financial restructuring expert at the U.S. Treasury Department from 2009 to 2010, where he focused primarily on financial stability initiatives and capital markets policy. Before joining the Treasury Department, he was a risk-arbitrage trader at Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago-based hedge fund. He previously served as a vice president in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch & Co., where he specialized in strategic and capital-raising transactions for financial services companies. He began his career as a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.

Education

• J.D. Harvard Law School (1998 — 2001)
• B.A. Dartmouth College (1993 — 1997)

Companies

• Professor Vanderbilt University Law School (2012)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Harvard Law School (2010 — 2012)
• Senior Policy Advisor and Financial Restructuring Expert US Department of the Treasury (2009 — 2010)
• Principal Strategies Citadel Investment Group (2007 — 2008)
• Vice President Merrill Lynch (2005 — 2007)
• Associate Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (2001 — 2004)