The visiting law enforcement leaders were then asked to come up with specific ideas and send them to the White House.
He has been a visiting law professor at the University of Michigan, Boston University and Cornell; Brown has no law school.
Katherine M. Porter, a visiting law professor at Harvard University and an expert on consumer credit law, said that lenders were wrong to minimize problems with the legal documentation.
"The banks were so despised, and TARP was so front and center, you could have actually done something," said Katherine M. Porter, a visiting law professor at Harvard.
"Just because the homeowner hasn't paid his mortgage doesn't mean anybody in the world can kick him out," said Katherine Porter, a visiting law professor at Harvard.
In August, he is to become an associate professor of law at the University of Connecticut and a visiting law professor at Ohio State University.
"Prosecutors will try to throw as much against the wall as they can and see if it sticks," said David Yellen, a visiting law professor at Cornell University.
Nearly every week, one lecturer or another from John Jay addresses visiting law enforcement officials, said Jerry Capeci, a John Jay spokesman.
Erwin Chemerinsky, a visiting law professor at Duke University, said Mr. Clark seemed to be using the formality of Mr. Bush's signature to avoid his obligations.
Sandra Bullock, as an aggressive visiting law student who helps the attorney, runs circles around him; their scenes together are a little embarrassing.
