A Legal History Roundable Event with Jamie Grischkan

Abstract: This paper retraces the long road to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and argues that the battle for bank holding company regulation represents a central, yet forgotten, chapter in the history of the American antimonopoly tradition. 

Biography: Jamie Grischkan is the Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow at Harvard Law School. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Boston University, where she focuses on American legal, political, and economic history. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.