Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren ( born June 22, 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as Elizabeth Herring ) is an American lawyer. She advises President Barack Obama and the Ministry of Finance as chairman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in consumer protection issues. Warren is also the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy law and business law. In the wake of the financial crisis that began in 2007, she was chairman of the supervisory board of the Congress for the study of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP ). Warren had long campaigned for a consumer protection agency for financial products, to set them up President Obama on July 21, 2010 signed the appropriate law. In 2012 she was elected to the Senate of the United States, beating Scott Brown. On January 3, 2013, it came into office.

Life

Elizabeth is the daughter of a janitor and the employee of a catalog company. She has three older brothers. After her father had suffered a heart attack, had Elizabeth and her mother contribute to the family income.

In high school Elizabeth Herring Debattierwettbewerbe had won; with a full scholarship, she began to study at George Washington University at the age of 16. At the age of 19, she married her childhood sweetheart Jim Warren and followed him to Texas, where she in 1970 at the University of Houston with a BS completed. She got pregnant, moved to New Jersey with her husband and was first several years as a housewife and mother until she enrolled at Rutgers University. She was pregnant for the second time in 1976 and received her JD 1977/78 it had a teaching position at Rutgers, then moved with her husband back to Texas, where she taught from 1978-83 at the University of Houston and from 1981-87 and at the University of Texas at Austin.

In 1978, she divorced and married Warren in 1980, Harvard professor Bruce Mann. 1987 was Warren Professor of Business Law at the University of Pennsylvania; 1992 convened the Harvard Law School, she for Visiting Professor of Business Law. She was vice chair of the American Law Institute and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Warren has a daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, and a son, Alexander Warren. She taught Sunday school and referred to the Methodist preacher John Wesley as a model.

On 18 August 2011 she announced formally to consider a candidacy for the United States Senate in the eye. She was nominated by the Democratic Party as a candidate for the election on November 6, 2012, although they prevailed against the lawyer Marisa DeFranco. In fact, they defeated the Republican incumbent Scott Brown, who won in early 2010, surprisingly, the election to the mandate of the late Edward Kennedy. The election campaign was approximately $ 70 million the most expensive Senate decisions in U.S. history. As it was for the preservation of the Senate majority for the Democratic Party of great importance, flowed around 38 million dollars from outside of the state in the election campaign coffers.

Works

• ' Bankruptcy Policy ' (1987 ) 54 (3) The University of Chicago Law Review 775-814
• 'The Case for Repeal below deflector of Chapter 11 ' (1992 ) 102 ( 2) The Yale Law Journal 437-479 73
• ' Bankruptcy Policy Making in an Imperfect World ( 1993) 92 ( 2) Michigan Law Review 336-387
• 'The Bankruptcy Crisis' (1997-1998) 73 Indiana Law Journal 1079
• ' Principled Approach to Consumer Bankruptcy ' (1997 ) 71 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 483
• ' Financial Characteristics of Businesses in Bankruptcy ' (1999) Am. Bankr. L. J. 499 (with JL Westbrook )
• ' Illness and Injury as Contributors to Bankruptcy ' (2005) SSRN (with DU Himmelstein, D Thorne and SJ Woolhandler )
• 'The Success of Chapter 11: A Challenge to the Critics ' (2009) 107 Michigan Law Review 603 (with JL Westbrook )
• ' Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study, ' (2008) American Journal of Medicine (with DU Himmelstein, D Thorne and SJ Woolhandler )

• Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence Westbrook The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, 6th, Aspen Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7355-7626-1.
• Elizabeth Warren Chapter 11: Reorganizing American Businesses ( Essentials ). Aspen Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7355-7654-4.
• Elizabeth Warren: The Vanishing Middle Class. In: Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream. The New Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59558-176-1.
• Lynn Lopucki, Elizabeth Warren, Daniel Keating, Ronald Mann, Norman Goldberg Case Note Legal Briefs: Commercial Law. Aspen Publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-0735558274.
• Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money plan. Simon and Schuster, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7432-6988-9.
• Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi The Two - Income Trap: Why Middle- Class Parents are Going Broke. Basic Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-465-09090-7.
• Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, Jay Westbrook The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt. Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-300-09171-7.
• Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, Jay Westbrook As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America. Beard Books, 1999, ISBN 978-1-893122-15-4.