Michael S. Barr is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Publlic Policy, the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and founder and Faculty Director of the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law and Policy. Barr conducts research and writes about a wide range of issues in domestic and international financial regulation. Barr was on leave during 2009 and 2010 serving in President Barack H. Obama's Administrtion as the U.S. Department of the Treasury's assistant secretary for financial institutions, and was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.