This working paper shows that the increased presence of minority directors on the twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks — the quasi-governmental entities responsible for evaluating many commercial banks’ lending to underserved communities — is associated with greater lending to these...

In this brief essay, to be included in a book celebrating the work of Jay Westbrook, I begin by surveying Jay's wide-ranging contributions to bankruptcy scholarship. Jay's functional analysis has had a profound effect on scholars' understanding of key issues in domestic bankruptcy law, and Jay...