Rory VanLoo

Biography

Rory Van Loo’s research focuses on how artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and other technologies challenge conventional thinking about regulating transactions between consumers and businesses. More broadly, he explores how improved information laws, business ethics, institutional design, and legal remedies can produce better market outcomes for society. His articles on these topics were twice chosen through blind peer review for the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, and have been published six times in the top ten law journals by impact factor.

Professor Van Loo has taught Contracts, Business Organization, Consumer Law, Dispute Systems Design, Multiparty Negotiation, and Financial Regulation. Prior to BU, Professor Van Loo served on the implementation team that set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, helping to build the framework for supervision of large banks. He also spent several years at McKinsey & Co. conducting empirical studies for multinational corporations in mergers and acquisitions, marketing, and organizational design.

Professor Van Loo’s intellectual study of digital markets began with an undergraduate major in science, technology, and society, with a focus on computer science. He then received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to Argentina, Costa Rica, the Cote d’Ivoire, India, Mali, Peru, Senegal, and Vietnam researching the social impact of the internet.