Patricia A. McCoy is the Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor at Boston College
Law School. Her research interests focus on the nexus among financial services,
consumer welfare, and systemic risk. In 2010-2011, she was appointed the
first Assistant Director of Mortgage Markets at the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau in Washington, D.C., where she oversaw all of the Bureau’s mortgage policy
initiatives. She has also served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal
Reserve Board and the Advisory Council on Economic Inclusion of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation. Currently, she sits on the Federal Reserve’s
Insurance Policy Advisory Council.
Patricia received her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley
and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Industrial Relations Law Journal.
Later, she clerked for the late Hon. Robert S. Vance on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Eleventh Circuit. Before entering academe, Patricia was a partner
at the law firm of Mayer, Brown in Washington, D.C. She was subsequently a
Visiting Scholar at the MIT Economics Department in 2002-2003. Patricia
has three books to her credit, including The Subprime Virus (Oxford
University Press), which was written with Kathleen C. Engel and won ACCFSL’s award for
Best Book on Consumer Financial Services of 2011.
Professional Affiliations
- American Law Institute
- Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund
- Insurance Policy Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board
- Past Chair, Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services, Association of American Law Schools