Event Lecture

Cancel Culture: Debanking

15
Tuesday April 2025
Todd J. Zywicki
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Host Vanderbilt (Owen)

At Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, Todd Zywicki, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, delivered a lecture titled "Cancel Culture: Debanking". Zywicki discussed how financial institutions deny services based on political or religious views, discussing the implications for free speech and proposing policy reforms to safeguard access to financial services.

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Speaker

Todd J. Zywicki Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law

Todd J. Zywicki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, Research Fellow of the Law & Economics Center, and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center. In 2020-21 he served as the Chair of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law. He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 130 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals. He has testified several times before Congress and is a frequent commentator on legal issues in the print and broadcast media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post.