Lee A Reiners
Executive Director, Global Financial Markets Center, and Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School
Lee Reiners is a lecturing fellow at the Duke Financial Economics Center and a lecturing fellow at Duke Law. At Duke, Reiners has taught classes on FinTech Law and Policy, Cryptocurrency Law and Policy, Financial Regulatory Policy, Climate Change and Financial Markets, and Cybersecurity Law and Policy. His broad research agenda focuses on how new financial technologies and climate change fit within existing regulatory frameworks. His work has examined the risks associated with cryptocurrency derivatives, the rise of digital investment advice, corporate governance failures within the financial industry, and climate-related risk disclosures. He writes frequently on FinTech and other financial regulatory matters on The FinReg Blog - where he is also Editor-at-Large - and speaks with financial policy experts on his podcast, The FinReg Pod. He also co-hosts Coffee & Crypto, a bi-monthly podcast that covers the latest developments in the world of cryptocurrency. Reiners also directs the Climate Risk Disclosure Lab at the Duke Financial Economics Center, which is dedicated to unbiased analysis around climate change and financial disclosure.
Prior to joining Duke Law, Reiners worked for five years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), first as a supervisor of systemically important financial institutions and then as a senior associate within the executive office. In the latter capacity, he helped coordinate the FRBNY’s engagement with international standard-setting bodies, such as the Bank for International Settlements and the Financial Stability Board. While at the FRBNY, Reiners worked closely with other federal and state regulatory agencies.
Reiners has previously taught corporate finance and managerial economics in the MBA Program at Saint Peter’s University. In 2004-2005, Reiners served as a U.S. Army communications specialist in Baghdad, Iraq.
Reiners received a BSc in business economics, summa cum laude, from the University of St. Thomas and a MPP with a global policy concentration from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Reiners holds the chartered financial analyst designation and serves on the CFA Institute's Capital Markets Policy Council.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Lecturing Fellow of Economics
Contact Information
- Office Location: 419 Chapel Drive, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: +1 919 613 8532
- Email Address: lee.reiners@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- M.P.P. Duke University, 2011
Courses Taught
- LAW 738: Financial Law and Regulation: Practitioner's Perspective
- LAW 644: Bass Connections for Law Credit
- LAW 640: Independent Research
- LAW 611: Readings
- LAW 580JS: FinTech Law & Policy
- LAW 304: Big Bank Regulation
- ISS 796T: Bass Connections Information, Society & Culture Research Team
- ISS 795T: Bass Connections Information, Society & Culture Research Team
- ISS 396T: Bass Connections Information, Society & Culture Research Team
- ISS 395T: Bass Connections Information, Society & Culture Research Team
- ISS 392: Independent Study
- FMKT 390S: Selected Topics in Financial Markets
- ECON 390S: Selected Topics in Economics
- CYBERSEC 502: Cybersecurity and Interdisciplinary Law/Ethics/Policy/Privacy Considerations
In the News
- A Short But Busy Month on Capitol Hill for Duke Faculty (Mar 13, 2023 | Duke Government Relations)
- A Republican joins the crypto backlash in Congress (Dec 1, 2022 | Semafor)
- FTX failure resets US crypto legislative programme (Nov 28, 2022 | Risk.net)
- Yam Karkai’s Illustrations Made Her an N.F.T. Sensation. Now What? (Nov 27, 2022 | The New Yorker)
- Capitol Hill finally wants to regulate crypto. But some critics say just ‘let it burn.’ (Nov 22, 2022 | Semafor)
- Duke Report: Lack of Climate Risk Disclosure Threatens Financial Markets (Oct 28, 2020 | School of Law)
- New Law Clinic Looks to Improve Corporate Reporting of Climate-Related Risk (Aug 5, 2020 | Duke School of Law)
- A Bass Connection Study of Predatory Lending Provides Lessons About the Great Recession (May 9, 2020 | Duke Law)
- Lee Reiners: Who Are Your Trusted Sources on COVID-19? (May 7, 2020)
- Lee Reiners: Wells-Fargo chose loyalty to employee over loyalty to customers (Sep 19, 2016 | The Conversation)
Representative Publications
- Reiners, L, A Proposal for Oversight of Digital Asset Spot Markets in the U.S., TechREG Chronicle (2022), pp. 1-7 [abs].
- Reiners, L, The Uncertain Prudential Treatment of Crypto-Assets (2021) [abs].
- Reiners, L, Blockchain Democracy: Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd, Banking & Finance Law Review, vol 37 no. 1 (2021), pp. 191-196 [abs].
- Reiners, L, Cryptocurrency and the State: An Unholy Alliance, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, vol 30 no. 3 (2021), pp. 695-715 [abs].
- Reiners, L; Smith Jr., J; II, J, NC Should Speed Help to the 435,000 North Carolinians Who Are Behind on Rent, Raleigh News & Observer (2021) [abs].