Arthur Wilmarth

Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr. is a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. Prior to joining GW Law School's faculty in 1986, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Jones Day. Wilmarth teaches courses in banking law, contracts, corporations and American constitutional history. From 2011 to 2014, he served as executive director of GW Law School’s Center for Law, Economics and Finance (C-LEAF), and he has been a member of C-LEAF’s executive board since the center was founded in 2009. In 2010, he was a consultant to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the body established by Congress to report on the causes of the financial crisis of 2007-09. Wilmarth is the author of more than 30 articles and book chapters in the fields of banking law and American constitutional history, and he is co-editor of a book on the financial crisis. In 2005, the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers awarded him its prize for the best law review article published in the field of consumer financial services law during the previous year. Wilmarth is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Banking Regulation. He is also a member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute. Wilmarth received his bachelor's degree from Yale University and his Juris Doctor from Harvard University.