Jim Fanto
James A. Fanto is the Gerald Baylin Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and Co-Director of the school’s Center for the Study of Business Law & Regulation. He teaches courses on banking, compliance, corporate, and securities law and corporate finance. Among other subjects, he writes and speaks on the law relating to broker-dealers and compliance. He is the co-author (with Jill Gross and Norman Poser) of Broker-Dealer Law and Regulation (5th ed. 2019, annually updated). He also teaches at the FINRA Institute at Georgetown (formerly at Wharton) on, among other topics, broker-dealer advertising rules, books and records obligations, financial regulation, suitability and supervision. He is an associate reporter on the American Law Institute's recently completed project entitled Principles of the Law: Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations. Before becoming a law professor, he practiced banking, corporate, and securities law with the firm of Davis Polk in Washington, Paris and New York. Professor Fanto received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a law clerk to Judge Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court.