University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel
William K. Black
UMKC Professor of Economics and Law
This academic year:
• Bill Moyers Journal http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html
• Barron's: two page interview with photo of our courtroom
• Interviewee for national Obama campaign video: http://keatingeconomics.com/
• Keynote speaker at Utrecht (Netherlands) conference on Corporate Governance
• Selected by AALS to present a "hot topics" panel on the economic crises at Annual Meeting in San Diego
• U.S. Senate testimony on financial derivatives
• U.S. House testimony on AIG (forthcoming)
• Chosen by Cato forum to debate with three other academics the causes of the crises
• Featured speaker at a half dozen academic and trade meetings
• Specially invited speaker in the Netherlands (Utrecht University, see above), France, and Iceland
• Specially invited author in the Indian Journal: Economic and Political Weekly
• Co-authored Op-ed on TARP republished in the book "Meldown" (2009)
• Published many blog articles on the crisis (featured interviewee on firedoglake.com )
• Speaker at community event sponsored by UMKC Economics to explain the causes of the crises
Appearances on national/international television:
• Fox: News, Business News, and documentary on Senator McCain (6 appearances)
• CNN: (2 appearances); CNN International (forthcoming); ABC (once); NBC (once); Bill Moyers Journal
Appearances on national/international radio
• BBC; BBC Ukranian Service; Australia; Jamaica; Canada; Fox; Marketplace (five times); various other national U.S. radio syndicates
• Local/regional television & radio interviews (well over 50)
• Quoted in international, national and regional newspapers well over 50 times (see Dr. Ghosh's article)
At various times, my book, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One, has risen on Amazon to #51 in all sales among non-fiction books and #2 or #3 among books on financial history and finance and in the top 400 among all book sales. It was published in 2005. The hardcover edition sold it, it was republished in paperback in 2009.
