MATTHEW C. TURK Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
1275 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-3559 - turkmat@iu.edu
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Indiana University – Kelley School of Business
Associate Professor, Department of Business Law & Ethics, July 2022 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Business Law & Ethics, July 2016 – July 2022
EDUCATION
New York University School of Law J.D., magna cum laude, 2010
· Order of the Coif
· Florence Allen Scholar
· Senior Notes Editor, Journal of International Law & Politics
University of California, San Diego B.A., Political Science & Economics, 2006
CLERKSHIP & OTHER LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Public Arbitrator, December 2023 – present
Hon. Ferdinand Fernandez, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Pasadena, CA Judicial Clerk, September 2013 – August 2014
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Palo Alto, CA
Litigation Associate, October 2010 – August 2013; September 2014 – June 2016 Summer Associate, May 2009 – August 2009
RESEARCH & TEACHING
· Primary Research Areas: Financial Regulation; Securities Law; International Economic Law · Secondary Research Areas: Corporations; Administrative Law; Law-and-Economics
· Courses Taught: L201: Introduction to Law in a Business Environment
L293: Honors Introduction to Law in a Business Environment L305: Business Planning & Corporate Law
L375: Introduction to Business Ethics
A568: Applied Leadership Learning Laboratory
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
· FINRA Arbitration as Financial Regulation 77 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW forthcoming (2025)
· Rethinking Countercyclical Financial Regulation [with Jeremy Kress] 56 GEORGIA LAW REVIEW 495 (2022)
· A Portfolio Approach to Policymaking Uncertainty 49 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 381 (2022)
· The Securities Fraud Class Action After Goldman Sachs
59 AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 281 (2022) [peer-reviewed publication]
· Too Many to Fail: Against Community Bank Deregulation [with Jeremy Kress] 115 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 647 (2020)
· Stress Testing the Banking Agencies 105 IOWA LAW REVIEW 1701 (2020)
· Overlapping Legal Rules in Financial Regulation and the Administrative State 54 GEORGIA LAW REVIEW 791 (2020)
· Justice Kavanaugh, Lorenzo v. SEC, and the Future of Deference at the Post-Kennedy Supreme Court 71 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 193 (2019) [with Karen Woody]
· The Leidos Mixup and the Misunderstood Duty to Disclose in Securities Law [with Karen Woody] 75 WASHINGTON & LEE LAW REVIEW 957 (2018) [reprinted in SECURITIES LAW REVIEW (2019)]
· Securitization Reform after the Crisis: Regulation by Rulemaking or Regulation by Settlement? 37 REVIEW OF BANKING & FINANCIAL LAW 861 (2018) [invited symposium issue contribution]
· Reversing the Two Wrong Turns in the Economic Analysis of International Law: A Club Goods Theory of Treaty Membership & European Integration
36 BERKELEY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 115 (2018)
· Leidos and The Roberts Court’s Improvident Securities Law Docket [with Karen E. Woody] 70 STANFORD LAW REVIEW ONLINE 89 (2017)
· Regulation by Settlement
66 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW REVIEW 259 (2017)
· The Banking-Sovereign Nexus: Law, Economics and Policy 55 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW 592 (2017)
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· The Convergence of Insurance with Banking and Securities Industries, and the Limits of Regulatory Arbitrage in Finance
2015:3 COLUMBIA BUSINESS LAW REVIEW 967 (2015)
· Reframing International Financial Regulation after the Global Financial Crisis: Rational States and Interdependence, not Regulatory Networks and Soft Law
36 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 59 (2014)
· A Political Economy Approach to Reforming the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 33 NORTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & BUSINESS 325 (2013)
OTHER WRITINGS
· Coup for Community Banks Could Spell Disaster for Industry [with Jeremy Kress] AMERICAN BANKER (Jan. 28, 2020)
· Too Many to Fail: Against Community Bank Deregulation
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL BLUE SKY BLOG ON CORPORATIONS & CAPITAL MARKETS (Jan. 2, 2020)
· Stress Testing the Banking Agencies
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL FORUM ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & FINANCIAL REGULATION (May 6, 2019)
· What Justice Kavanaugh’s Lorenzo Dissent Means for the Future of Chevron Deference COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL BLUE SKY BLOG ON CORPORATIONS & CAPITAL MARKETS (Nov. 21, 2018)
· The Underappreciated Dilemmas of Overlapping Financial Regulation
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL BLUE SKY BLOG ON CORPORATIONS & CAPITAL MARKETS (Oct. 25, 2018)
· The Rise of Financial Regulation by Settlement
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL BLUE SKY BLOG ON CORPORATIONS & CAPITAL MARKETS (Sept. 12, 2017)
· The Leidos Mixup and the Misunderstood Duty to Disclose in Securities Law
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL FORUM ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & FINANCIAL REGULATION (July 21, 2017)
· Implications of European Disintegration for International Law 17 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LAW 395 (2011)
· Why Does the Complainant Always Win at the WTO? A Reputation-Based Theory of Litigation at the World Trade Organization, 31 NORTHWESTERN J. INTERNATIONAL LAW & BUSINESS 385 (2011)
· Bargaining and Intellectual Property Treaties: The Case for a Pro-Development Interpretation for TRIPS but not TRIPS Plus, 42 NYU J. INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLITICS 981 (2010) [student note]
· Book Review, THE PERILS OF GLOBAL LEGALISM
Eric A. Posner (U. CHI. PRESS 2009), 42 NYU J. INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLITICS 344 (2010)
· Book Review, INTERNATIONAL LAW ON THE LEFT: RE-EXAMINING MARXIST LEGACIES Susan Marks (CAMBRIDGE PRESS 2008), 41 NYU J. INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLITICS 528 (2009)
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PRESENTATIONS
· FINRA Arbitration as Financial Regulation
Academy of Legal Studies in Business - Pacific Southwest Conference, Palm Springs, CA (February 2025) Academy of Legal Studies in Business - Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. (August 2024)
· Financial Regulation in the Biden Administration: What to Expect [panel discussant] Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference (August 2021)
· The Securities Fraud Class Action After Goldman Sachs Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference (August 2021)
· Rethinking Countercyclical Financial Regulation Wharton Conference on Financial Regulation (April 2021) National Busines Law Scholars Conference (June 2021)
· Ten Years after Dodd-Frank: Is the Financial System Safer? [panel discussant] Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference (Aug. 2020)
· Too Many to Fail: Against Community Bank Deregulation
National Busines Law Scholars Conference – U. Tennessee Law School (June 2020) Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference – Montreal (Aug. 2019)
· A Portfolio Approach to Policymaking Uncertainty Junior Scholars in Legal Studies Lecture Series (July 2020)
Midwest Law & Economics Association Annual Conference - Villanova Law School (Oct. 2019)
· Financial Crisis Reform: Sovereign Debt, Systemic Risk & Government Insolvency [panel discussant] Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference – Montreal (Aug. 2019)
· Stress Testing the Banking Agencies
Canadian Law & Economics Association Annual Conference - Toronto (Sept. 2019) National Business Law Scholars Conference - Berkeley Law School (June 2019)
Financial Regulation and Innovation Workshop - Indiana Maurer School of Law (April 2019) Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference - Portland, Oregon (Aug. 2018)
· Overlapping Legal Rules in Financial Regulation and the Administrative State
Midwest Law & Economics Association Annual Conference - University of Alabama Law School (Sept. 2018) National Business Law Scholars Conference - University of Georgia School of Law (June 2018)
Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference - Savannah, Georgia (Aug. 2017)
· Anti-Corruption Regulation by Settlement under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 30th Annual Sokol Colloquium - University of Virginia School of Law (Nov. 2017)
· The Leidos Mixup and the Misunderstood Duty to Disclose in Securities Law Faculty Workshop - Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Oct. 2017)
Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference - Savannah, Georgia (Aug. 2017)
· Reversing the Two Wrong Turns in the Economic Analysis of International Law Institute of International Economic Law Biennial Conference - McGill University (Sept. 2018)
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American Law & Economics Association Midwest Conference - Marquette Law School (Oct. 2017) American Society of International Law Midyear Conference - Washington University Law School (Oct. 2017) Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference - Savannah, Georgia (Aug. 2017)
International Society of Public Law Annual Conference - Humboldt University of Berlin (June 2016)
· Regulation by Settlement
National Business Law Scholars Conference - University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (June 2017) Academy of Legal Studies in Business Pacific Southwest Conference - Palm Springs, California (Feb. 2017) Big Ten Business Law Research Seminar - University of Maryland Carey School of Business (Jan. 2017)
· The Banking-Sovereign Nexus: Law, Economics, and Policy
Institute of International Economic Law Biennial Conference - Georgetown Law Center (Oct. 2016) Invited Scholars Colloquium, American Business Law Journal - San Juan, Puerto Rico (Aug. 2016)
· The Limits of Regulatory Arbitrage in Finance
Berkeley Law School - Center for Law, Business & Economics (Sept. 2015) Chapman University - Department of Economics Faculty Workshop (May 2015)
· Reframing International Financial Regulation after the Global Financial Crisis NYU School of Law Junior Scholarship Clinic (April 2014)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & SERVICE
· Research Director, Institute for Corporate Governance & Ethics, Kelley School (2024 – present) · Research Fellow, Institute for Corporate Governance, Kelley School (2021 –2024)
· Editorial Reviewer, American Business Law Journal (2017 - present) [awarded Outstanding New Reviewer 2018, Best Reviewer 2022]
· Member, American Bar Association – Dispute Resolution Section (2023 - present) · Member, Academy of Legal Studies in Business (2016 - present)
· Member, American Society of International Law (2016 - present)
· Member, American Law & Economics Association (2016 - present) · Member, California Bar Association (admitted 2010)
· Member, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (admitted 2018)
· Member, U.S. District Court for Central District of California (admitted 2018)
AMICUS BRIEFS
· Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank, U.S. SUPREME COURT (Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors and Former Officials of the SEC in Support of Petitioners) (April 5, 2024)
· Murphy v. Securities and Exchange Comm’n., U.S. SUPREME COURT (Brief of Securities Scholars and Former SEC Officials as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners) (July 27, 2023)
· In re FirstEnergy Corp., SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS (Brief of former SEC Officials and Law Professors as Amici Curiae) (April 20, 2023)
· Goldman Sachs v. Arkansas Teachers Retirement System, U.S. SUPREME COURT (Brief of former SEC Officials and Law Professors as Amici Curiae) (Feb. 11, 2021)
· In re Volkswagen, NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS (Amicus Brief on behalf of Securities Law Professors) (Feb. 10, 2020)
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· United States v. Blaszczak, SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS (Amicus Brief on Behalf of Securities Law Professors) (March 12, 2019)
· Martoma v. United States, U.S. SUPREME COURT (Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner) (Feb. 27, 2019)
· Lorenzo v. Securities and Exchange Comm’n, U.S. SUPREME COURT (Brief of Amici Curiae Securities Law Professors in Support of Petitioner) (Aug. 27, 2018)
· Homeaway.com, Inc. and AirBnb, Inc. v. City of Santa Monica, NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS (Brief of Amici Curiae Internet, Business, and Local Government Law Professors in Support of Defendant-Appellee) (May 23, 2018)
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