TODD J. ZYWICKI is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia
Law School at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He is
also a Senior Fellow of the F.A. Hayek Program for the Advanced Study of Politics,
Philosophy, and Economics at George Mason University. From 2020-2021 he was Chair
of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial
Law. He served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on
Law & Economics is 2019. From 2015-2017 he was Executive Director of the
George Mason Law and Economics Center. He served as Co-Editor of the Supreme
Court Economic Review from 2006-2017.
From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of
Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. He has also taught at
Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Boston College Law
School, and Mississippi College School of Law. Professor Zywicki clerked for
Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and
worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia, where he
practiced bankruptcy and commercial law. He received his J.D. from the
University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review
and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki also received
an M.A. in Economics from Clemson University and an A.B. cum Laude with
high honors in his major from Dartmouth College.
Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 130 articles in leading law reviews
and peer-reviewed economics journals. He has testified multiple times before Congress
on issues of consumer bankruptcy law and consumer credit and is a frequent
commentator on legal issues in the print and broadcast media, including the
Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Washington Times, Nightline, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer,
Neil Cavuto Show, Fox & Friends, Fox Business, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg News,
BBC, The Diane Rehm Show, Lou Dobbs Show, Jerry Doyle Show, and
The Laura Ingraham Show.