Professional Summary
Cathy Lesser Mansfield is a Professor of Law. She has served on the faculties of Drake University Law School, Georgetown Law School, Case Western Reserve University, and Washburn University. She also served as a Policy Analyst with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and represents the National Consumer Law Center on the Board of the Faster Payments Council. Professor Mansfield’s areas of expertise are consumer and commercial law, and Holocaust and the Law.
Professor Mansfield is a co-author of the National Consumer Law Center's "Consumer Banking and Payments Law," has written numerous articles on consumer-related legal issues, and appears frequently in news stories about consumer protection issues.
Professor Mansfield was a Silberman Fellow at the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Center for National Security and Human Rights Law.
Professor Mansfield studied composition and theory at the Cincinnati Collegel Conservatory of Music. She is the composer and librettist of an opera, entitled The Sparks Fly Upward, that follows three German families in Berlin, two Jewish and one Christian, through the Holocaust, and she was the founder and Executive Director of The Sparks Fly Upward Foundation, a non-profit organization that operated until 2024 and was dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, genocide and tolerance through presentations of Sparks, and ancillary activities. Sparks was broadcast on Public Television in Northeast Ohio in 2025. Professor Mansfield is a frequent presenter about the Holocaust.
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