Kathleen Engel is the Associate Dean for Intellectual Life and a Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School. She is a national authority on mortgage finance and regulation, subprime and predatory lending, and housing discrimination. Her many publications include a 2011 book published by Oxford University Press, The Subprime Virus: Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure and Next Steps (with Prof. P. McCoy) and articles in Texas Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Washington University Law Quarterly, Connecticut Law Review, The Journal of Economics and Business, Fordham Urban Law Journal, and Housing Policy Debate. Professor Engel presents her research in academic, banking, and policy forums throughout the country and around the world. Her analysis of financial services markets and the laws that regulate them regularly catches the attention of the press; The New York Times, Business Week, The Economist, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal have all cited her work. Prof. Engel has advised federal and state agencies on various matters related to financing of loans and served for three years on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board. Professor Engel is an honors graduate from Smith College and the University of Texas School of Law. Following graduation from law school, Professor Engel clerked for Judge Homer Thornberry of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas. She then practiced law at Burnham & Hines in Boston, where she primarily represented plaintiffs in civil rights, and housing and employment discrimination cases. Prior to joining the faculty at Suffolk University, Professor Engel held the Leon M. and Gloria Plevin Professorship at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Professor Engel has taught courses on torts, civil procedure, employment law, employment discrimination, and consumer credit.

Steven Ferrey is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, and has been Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and at Boston University Law School. He teaches courses in Environmental Law, Energy Law, and Contract Law. Since 1993, he has served as legal advisor to the World Bank and the United Nations on various renewable energy and climate change projects in several developing countries in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere. Prior to joining the faculty, he worked in the U.S. for the Environmental Defense Fund, and for the National Consumer Law Center's Energy Division, and has dealt with a range of environmental and energy issues. He served on various federal and state commissions addressing these issues. He is the author of 7 books and more than 100 articles on environmental and energy law and regulation. His books include the 3-volume Law of Independent Power, now in its 28th edition, 2010; Environmental Law, 5th ed. 2010; and Renewable Power in Developing Countries (2006). Recently, he authored chapters for books published in London and Berlin, as well as for books published in the U.S. His most recent articles appeared in law reviews at Harvard, Duke, University of Virginia, William and Mary, University of Minnesota, Boston College, N.Y.U., University of California at Berkeley, Vermont, Notre Dame, U.C.L.A. and Stanford. He holds a B.A. degree in economics from Pomona College in Claremont, California, a J.D. degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at U.C. Berkeley, and a Masters degree in environmental planning from the University of California at Berkeley. At the time he completed his law degree, he was awarded a Fullbright Fellowship at University College, London, where he spent a Fellowship year.

Joseph A. Franco is a Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law and Financial Services Concentration at Suffolk University Law School. He teaches securities regulation, regulation of investment companies, corporations and corporate finance. Prior to joining the faculty of Suffolk University Law School, he was an assistant general counsel for the United States Securities and Exchange Commision in Washington, D.C., where he worked on legal policy and appellate litigation. His work has been published in several leading journals on a variety of securities law topics. Prof. Franco holds both an MA (in economics) and JD from Yale University, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining the staff of the SEC, he was engaged in mergers and acquisitions litigation as an associate with a large law firm in New York City. He has served from time to time as an expert in major criminal and civil litigation securities matters both in the United States and the City of London Commercial Court.