John C. Coffee: “First, I believe the greatest enemy of job creation today is not overregulation, but the loss of investor confidence.”

We believe that leapfrogging rulemakings whose deadlines are months away ahead of rulemakings whose deadlines are months passed... violates both the spirit and the letter of the law.

I think one is enormously important: systemic risk. All of the future of our economy depends upon being able to solve in a credible fashion the problems of major bank failure.

First, we must address the problem of financial institutions that are deemed too big--or perhaps too interconnected--to fail.

I want to be clear that I think there could be a robust bankruptcy provision that would be helpful and that would be a supplement, but it can't be a substitute.