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Michael Barr is a law professor at the University of Michigan and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 - 2010 Michael served as the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s assistant secretary for financial institutions, where he was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Act. He previously served as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin’s special assistant, as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury, as special advisor to President William J. Clinton, as special advisor and counselor on the policy planning staff at the State Department, and as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Southern District of New York. Michael received his J.D. from Yale Law School, an M. Phil in international relations from Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar, and his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University.