Luke Herrine

Luke Herrine is a scholar and teacher of consumer finance, consumer protection, market governance, and law and political economy. His work on student debt cancellation has been widely recognized as pathbreaking—among other accolades, it led to his recognition as a "Freedom Scholar" by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. His reconsideration of the history and theory of the prohibition of "unfair" market conduct reshaped several areas of federal consumer protection and agricultural regulation and the debates surrounding them. More generally, his work—published in leading journals such as the California Law Review, N.Y.U. Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation—has contributed to a critical rethinking of the role that economic models play in economic regulation.

In addition to his scholarship, advocacy, and teaching, Professor Herrine has been instrumental in creating community for scholars and students who focus on Law and Political Economy. He served on the organizing committee for the Association for Law and Political Economy and serves on its Student Committee. He was formerly the Managing Editor of the Law and Political Economy Blog and remains on its editorial board.

Before entering the legal academy, Professor Herrine co-founded the Debt Collective and helped to develop legal and organizing strategies that led to the cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars of household debt. He clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Pooler on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and was a Legal Fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Professor Herrine holds a Ph.D. in Law from Yale University, a J.D. from N.Y.U. School of Law, and a B.A. from Oberlin College.