Baradaran was also selected as a finalist at the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Awards for the book in the category of history/biography.īaradaran has also published articles including 'Jim Crow Credit' in the Irvine Law Review, 'Regulation by Hypothetical' in the Vanderbilt Law Review, 'It's Time for Postal Banking' in the Harvard Law Review Forum, 'Banking and the Social Contract' in the Notre Dame Law Review, 'How the Poor Got Cut Out of Banking' in the Emory Law Journal, 'Reconsidering the Separation of Banking and Commerce' in the George Washington Law Review and 'The ILC and the Reconstruction of U.S. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap was awarded the Best Book of the Year by the Urban Affairs Association, the PROSE Award Honorable Mention in the Business, Finance & Management category. Her scholarship includes the books How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, both published by the Harvard University Press. Previously, she was the Robert Cotten Alston Chair in Corporate Law and Associate Dean for strategic initiatives with a focus on diversity and inclusion efforts and national and international faculty scholarship recognition at the University of Georgia School of Law.īaradaran writes about banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap.

Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at UCI Law.

The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran