Jerome Madden
Adjunct Professor of Law
E-mail: academic@wcl.american.edu
Professor Madden is presently an attorney in the Litigation Division at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates national banks. Prior to joining the OCC, he spent over 20 years at U.S. Department of Justice (Torts Branch, 1985-91; Commercial Litigation Branch, 1998-06) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Appellate Section, 1991-98) litigating civil cases related to the financial institution crisis of the 1980's and early 1990's. He began his career as a law clerk to Chief Justice C. William O’Neill of the Ohio Supreme Court (1978-79) and as a litigation associate at the Washington office of the Wall Street law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1979-85). He graduated first in his class from the University of Dayton School of Law where he was the editor-in-chief of the law review. He joined the Washington College of Law as an adjunct professor in the Legal Rhetoric Program in 2007. He also has served as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School and the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University.
Currently Teaching
- LAW-857-001 Banking Law & Regulation
- LAW-516-024 LegalRhetoric:Wrtng&Rsrch I
Degrees & Universities
- L.L.M., Georgetown University Law Center
- J.D., University of Dayton (summa cum laude)
- B.A., Franciscan University
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Selected Publications- Jerome Madden, A Weapon of Mass Destruction Strikes: Credit Default Swaps Bring Down AIG and Lehman Brothers, Bus. L. Br. (Fall 2008).