David A. Westbrook

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Louis A. Del Cotto Professor; Co-Director of the NYC Program in Finance and Law
Research Focus:
Globalization and the Contemporary, Corporations and Capital Markets, Environmental Law and Technology, Political Economy and Social Theory

Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRN, Personal Website

Contact Information

521 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2490
dwestbro@buffalo.edu

Faculty Assistant: Suzanne Caruso

Biography Publications

Books

GETTING THROUGH SECURITY: COUNTERTERRORISM, BUREAUCRACY, AND A SENSE OF THE MODERN (with Mark Maguire) (Routledge Press 2020)

WELCOME TO NEW COUNTRY: MUSIC FOR TODAY'S AMERICA (Amazon: 2017)

DEPLOYING OURSELVES: ISLAMIST VIOLENCE AND THE RESPONSIBLE PROJECTION OF U.S. FORCE (Paradigm: 2010)

OUT OF CRISIS: RETHINKING OUR FINANCIAL MARKETS (Paradigm Publishers 2009)

NAVIGATORS OF THE CONTEMPORARY: WHY ETHNOGRAPHY MATTERS (University of Chicago Press 2008)

BETWEEN CITIZEN AND STATE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CORPORATION (Paradigm Publishers 2007)

CITY OF GOLD: AN APOLOGY FOR GLOBAL CAPITALISM IN A TIME OF DISCONTENT (Routledge 2003)

Journal Articles

Progressive Corporate Governance Under Social Capitalism: Do the Right Thing or Share the Wealth? (with Amy D. Westbrook), 17 VIRGINIA LAW AND BUSINESS REVIEW (2023)

From the Ivory Tower to the Football Stadium: A Rueful Response to Michael Hüther, 200 TELOS: CRITICAL THEORY OF THE CONTEMPORARY 171 (2022)

Afghanistan, “We Hardly Knew Ye”: Why the Lessons of Vietnam Were Not Learned, 197 TELOS 147 (2021)

Foreword, Symposium: Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel!, 69(1) BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 1 (2021)

Social Capitalism: A Descriptive Sketch, 194 TELOS: CRITICAL THEORY OF THE CONTEMPORARY 27 (2021)

The Public Problem With Counterterrorism (with Mark Maguire), SAPIENS (Sept. 2020)

Security by Design: Counterterrorism at the Airport,12 ANTHROPOLOGY NOW122, 122-153 (2020)

Social Capitalism: A Descriptive Sketch, 194 TELOS27, 27-43 (Spring 2021)

Foreword, Symposium: Serious Fun: A conference with & around Schlegel!, 69 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 1, 1-2 (January 2021)

The Public Problem With Counterterrorism (with Mark Maguire), SAPIENS (Sept. 2020)

Snapchat’s Gift: Equity Culture in High-Tech Firms (with Amy Deen Westbrook), 46 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 861, 861-909 (2019)

Those People [May Yet Be] a Kind of Solution: Late Imperial Thoughts on the Humanization of O&cialdom (with Mark Maguire), 67 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 889, 889-907 (2019)

Unicorns, Guardians, and the Concentration of the U.S. Equity Markets (with Amy Deen Westbrook), 96(3) NEBRASKA LAW REVIEW 688, 688-741 (2018)

The Paradigm Sways: Macroeconomics Turns to History, 20 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE 317, 317-24 (2017)

Prolegomenon to a defense of the City of Gold, REAL-WORLD ECONOMICS REVIEW (2017) vol. 78 p. 141

Governing International Finance after the Global Financial Crisis: Three Views of the Terrain, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (2016) vol. 19 p. 2    

Magical Contracts, Numinous Capitalism, ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY (2016) vol. 32 p. 13

Who are our allies? Who are our customers? WORLD ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER (June  2015) p. 3

Creative Engagements Indeed! Open "Disciplines," the Allure of Others, and Intellectual Fertility, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ANTHROPOLOGY (2 2014) vol. 3

Dinner Parties During "Lost Decades": On the Difficulties of Rethinking Financial Markets, Fostering Elite Consensus, and Renewing Political Economy, SEATTLE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2013) vol. 36 p. 1187

Neofeudalism, Paraethnography and the Custodial Regulation of Financial Institutions, JASSA : THE FINSIA JOURNAL OF APPLIED FINANCE (2013) no. 2 : 57

Ronald Coase (1910-2013), WORLD ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER vol. 3 (October 2013); republished by University of New South Wales Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation (posted Dec. 4, 2013); Laboratorio de Análisis Económico y Social A.C., DEBATE ECONÓMICO vol. 2 (3), No. 6 Septiembre-Diciembre 2013 : 120-128 (posted March 26, 2014)

Dinner Parties During "Lost Decades": On the Difficulties of Rethinking Financial Markets, Fostering Elite Consensus, and Renewing Political Economy, SEATTLE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2013) vol. 36 : 1187

A Shallow Harbor and a Cold Horizon: The Deceptive Promise of Modern Agency Law for the Theory of the Firm, SEATTLE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2012) vol. 35 : 1369

Angustia, Disciplina, Esperanca (written as Anxiety, Hope, Discipline: Economic Crisis as Portugal’s Opportunity) (in Portuguese), NOVA CIDADANIA (2011) vol. 45 : 16

If Not a Commercial Republic? Political Economy in the United States After Citizens United, UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE LAW REVIEW (2011) vol. 50 : 35

Happy Talk and the Stock Market, Real World Economics Review (2010) vol. 53 p. 43

Tragedy, Law, and rethinking Our Financial Markets, Real World Economics Review (2010) vol. 53 p. 100

Introduction: Unsettling Questions, Disquieting Stories, MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW (2009) vol. 2009 p. 817

Notes Toward A Theory of the Executive Class, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2007) vol. 55 p. 1047

Strategic Consequences of Radical Islamic Neofundamentalism, ORBIS: JOURNAL OF WORLD AFFAIRS (2007) vol. 51 p. 461

The Time of Faith: Contemporary Muslims, Secularists, and Anxieties over the Nature of History (2006)

Intellectual Vocations in the City of Gold, POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW (2006) vol. 29 p. 154

The Globalization of American Law, Theory, CULTURE AND SOCIETY (2006) vol. 23 p. 526

Theorizing the Diffusion of Law: Conceptual Difficulties, Unstable Imaginations, and the Effort to Think Gracefully Nonetheless, HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL  (2006) vol. 47 p. 489

Galanter v. Weber, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2005) vol. 53 p. 1445

Rassurante Amerique: Tocqueville revue par Bernard-Henri Levy, ESPRIT (November 2005) p. 6

Reading Quicksilver: A Response to Pierre d'Argent, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2004) vol. 52 p. 629

Telling All: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Ideal of Transparency, MICHIGAN STATE DCL LAW REVIEW (2004) vol. 2004 p. 441 

Corporation Law After Enron: the Possibility of a Capitalist Reimagination, GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL  (2003) vol. 92 p. 61

Pierre Schlag and the Temple of Boredom, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW  (2003) vol. 57 p. 649

Triptych: Three Meditations on How Law Rules after Globalization, MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL TRADE (2003) vol. 12 p. 337

Visions of History in the Hope for Sustainable Development, BUFFALO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL (2002) vol. 10 p. 301

Bin Laden's War, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2006) vol. 54 p. 981

Law Through War, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW (2000) vol. 48 p. 299

Administrative Takings: A Realist Perspective on the Practice and Theory of Regulatory Takings Cases, NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW (1999) vol. 74

Liberal Environmental Jurisprudence, U.C. Davis L. Rev. (1994) vol. 27 p. 619

Islamic International Law and Public International Law: Separate Expressions of World Order, VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW  (1993) vol. 33 p. 819

Return to Europe: Integrating, HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (Spring  1990) vol. 31 p. 660

Book Chapters

Climbing to 10 to the 11th: Globalization, Digitization, Shareholder Capitalism and the Summits of Contemporary Wealth, in THE INEQUALITY CRISIS 151, 151-66 (Edward Fullbrook & Jamie Morgan eds., 2020)

Magical Contracts, Numinous Capitalism, in MAGICAL CAPITALISM 45, 45-63 (Brian Moeran & Timothy Malefyt, eds., Palgrave Macmillan 2018) (substantially revised from the article)

Leaving Flatland: Planar Discourses and the Search for the G-Axis, in Power, Policy and Profit: Corporate Engagement in POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE 208, 208-22 (Christina Garsten & Adrienne Sörbom, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)

Prolegomenon to a Defense of the City of Gold, in TRUMPONOMICS: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES 141, 141-47 (Edward Fullbrook & Jamie Morgan, eds., 2017)

Reflections: Leaving Flatland? Planar Discourses and the Search for the G-Axis, in POLITICAL AFFAIRS: BRIDGING MARKETS AND POLITICS (Edward Elgar:   2017)

Critical Issues for Qualitative Research, in THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, 5th ed. (Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, eds.) (SAGE Publications: 2017)

The Culture of Financial Institutions; the Institution of Political Economy, in REGULATING CULTURE: INTEGRITY, RISK AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN CAPITAL MARKETS (Hart Publishing: 2013)

International Law, in OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAM AND POLITICS (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Stability, integration and political modalities : some American reflections on the European project after the financial crisis, in MAKING TRANSNATIONAL LAW WORK IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY (Pieter H. F. Bekker, Rudolf Dolzer, Michael Waibel, eds.) (Cambridge University Press:  2010)

Online Trading: Issuers, Broker-Dealers and SROs, Securities in THE ELECTRONIC AGE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE LAW AND REGULATION (Glasser Legal Works: 1998)