Speaker biographies

Roel Campos is the partner in charge of Cooley Godward Kronish’s Washington, DC office. He is a member of the litigation department and joined the firm in 2007. Prior to joining Cooley, Mr. Campos was a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He was sworn in as a commissioner in 2002 and was nominated by President George W. Bush for a second term and confirmed by the Senate in 2005. Mr. Campos served for four years as the SEC’s liaison to the international regulatory community. He presided over hundreds of complex enforcement cases and has participated in the crafting and adoption of all of the SEC’s major regulatory initiatives. Prior to his service on the SEC, Mr. Campos was one of two principal owner-executives of El Dorado Communications, a radio broadcasting company, at its headquarters in Houston. He began his career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and subsequently worked in private law practices and as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Mr. Campos is a founding member of the New America Alliance, which raises awareness of investment opportunities in the Latino sector in the United States.

Donald C. Langevoort is the Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He joined the Georgetown faculty in 1999 after eighteen years at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he had been the Lee S. & Charles A. Speir Professor. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Harvard Law School, and the University of Sydney in Australia. Mr. Langevoort went into private practice with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington in 1976, and he joined the staff of the SEC as special counsel in the Office of the General Counsel in 1978. Since entering academia in 1981, Mr. Langevoort has written a treatise on insider trading, coauthored a casebook on securities regulation, and published law review articles on topics such as insider trading, the impact of technology on securities regulation, investor behavior, and the intersection between cognitive psychology and lawyers’ professional responsibilities. He has served on the Legal Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange, the Legal Advisory Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Market Information, and the nominating committee of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. Mr. Langevoort has testified numerous times before congressional committees on matters relating to securities regulation and litigation.

Heidi Mandanis Schooner joined the law faculty of the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America in 1993. Ms. Schooner has visited on the law faculties at Suffolk University and George Washington University. As a practicing lawyer, Ms. Schooner was acting general counsel of First American Metro Corp., a bank holding company. She also practiced in the general counsel’s office at the SEC and as an associate with a private law firm. Ms. Schooner has published numerous articles exploring the regulation of financial institutions. Her scholarship addresses issues ranging from the specific examination of the enforcement powers of bank regulators to broad scrutiny of efforts to modernize bank regulatory regimes. Ms. Schooner teaches banking law, corporations, contracts, and commercial law.

Hal S. Scott is the Nomura Professor and director of the Program on International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1975. He teaches courses on capital markets regulation, international finance, the payment system, and securities regulation. He is also the director of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and an independent director of Lazard Ltd. Mr. Scott is the author of International Finance: Transactions, Policy and Regulation (14th ed., Foundation Press, 2007) and International Finance: Policy and Regulation (2nd ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2007). He has recently contributed chapters to Capital Markets in the Age of the Euro: Cross-Border Transactions, Listed Companies and Regulation (Kluwer 2002) and Research Handbook in International Economic Law (Elgar 2007). He is a past president of the International Academy of Consumer and Commercial Law and a former governor of the American Stock Exchange.

Peter J. Wallison holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies at AEI, where he codirects the Institute’s program on financial market deregulation. He previously practiced banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington and New York. From June 1981 to January 1985, Mr. Wallison was general counsel of the Treasury Department, where he had a significant role in the development of the Reagan administration’s proposals for deregulation in the financial services industry. He also served as general counsel to the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee and participated in the Treasury Department’s efforts to deal with the debt held by less-developed countries. During 1986 and 1987, Mr. Wallison was White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Between 1972 and 1976, Mr. Wallison served first as special assistant to New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and, subsequently, as counsel to Mr. Rockefeller when he was vice president of the United States.

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