Center for Law & the Economy Public Colloquium: Jeffry Frieden

The Murphy Institute’s Center for Law and the Economy (CLE) will welcome Jeffry Frieden, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University, as the featured speaker for the 2026 CLE Public Colloquium. Jeffry Frieden specializes in the politics of international economic relations and the forces shaping modern financial systems and globalization. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century and Its Stumbles in the Twenty-First, Currency Politics; The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy, and Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery. His expert commentary regularly appears in major scholarly and general-interest publications, and he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. As a leading authority in international political economy, Professor Frieden bridges the gap between what numbers say and how public policy