Prof. Andrew B. Dawson of the University of Miami School of Law (Miami) will serve as the Robert M. Zinman ABI Resident Scholar for the spring 2017 semester. Prof. Dawson teaches contracts, commercial law, secured transactions, bankruptcy and advanced topics in bankruptcy. His research has focused...
Melissa B. Jacoby studies and teaches bankruptcy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the National Bankruptcy Conference, and the American College of Bankruptcy. Her activities before joining the legal academy include clerking...
- Associate Dean for Academic Programs
- Professor of Law, The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
- Co-Director of the Business Law Program
- Member, Dodd-Frank Study Group for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
- Member, American Law Institute
- More than two...
Prof. Anne Lawton of Michigan State University College of Law (East Lansing, Mich.) teaches bankruptcy, contracts and various commercial law courses at Michigan State University. Last year, she published a report on proposed small-business reforms for the Governance Advisory Committee of the ABI...
Prof. Lois R. Lupica is the Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland, where she teaches bankruptcy, secured transactions, commercial and consumer arbitration, and professional responsibility. Prior to becoming a professor in 1995, she practiced law...
Prof. Charles J. Tabb is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, Ill., and was ABI's spring 2014 resident scholar. He has authored or co-authored several dozen articles and several books, most recently The Law of Bankruptcy (Foundation...
Kara J. Bruce is an associate professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, where she teaches Business Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, Commercial Paper, and Contracts. Her research focuses on bankruptcy law, including bankruptcy reform, bankruptcy jurisdiction, and judicial authority...
Professor C. Scott Pryor is professor of law at the Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where among other courses he teaches bankruptcy law and has organized a bankruptcy practicum where law students gain academic credit while working with a local firm or bankruptcy trustee...
Prof. Susan E. Hauser teaches civil procedure, bankruptcy and business associations at North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham, N.C. She received the University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013, and was named Professor of the Year by her...
David G. Epstein is the George E. Allen Chair Professor of Law at the University of Richmond Law School in Richmond, Va., and the Spring 2003 and the Spring 2012 ABI Robert M. Zinman Scholar-in-Residence. Previously, he practiced law with King & Spalding and Haynes and Boone, served as dean of two...
Jason J. Kilborn is a professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago and is ABI's fall 2011 Robert M. Zinman Resident Scholar. He teaches bankruptcy, secured transactions and corporations, and is one of the nation's leading scholars on comparative law in consumer bankruptcy. He has...
Prof. Jean Braucher is ABI's scholar in residence for spring 2011 and the Roger C. Henderson Professor of Law at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she teaches bankruptcy, commercial law and contracts. She has been chair twice of the Section on Creditors' and Debtors' Rights of the...
Laura B. Bartell is a Professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, where she teaches Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions and Property. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School (where she served on the Harvard Law Review), she clerked for The Hon. Alvin B. Rubin...
Prof. Juliet M. Moringiello is a professor at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pa., where she teaches bankruptcy, commercial law, cyberspace law and property. She is ABI's Spring 2010 Robert M. Zinman Resident Scholar and she writes in the areas of bankruptcy and electronic commerce...
Prof. Adam J. Levitin teaches bankruptcy and commercial law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and served as ABI's Robert M. Zinman ABI Resident Scholar for the Fall 2009 semester. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, he practiced in the Business Finance & Restructuring...
Prof. Jack F. Williams of the Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta is serving throughout 2008 as ABI's Robert M. Zinman ABI Resident Scholar. Prof. Williams is the first academic to serve twice in the role; he was the inaugural ABI Resident Scholar when the ABI Endowment Fund created...
Mark S. Scarberry is a professor at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, Calif., where he teaches bankruptcy, commercial law, remedies and constitutional law. Prof. Scarberry was an associate in the Los Angeles office of Jones Day before joining Pepperdine in 1982. He is a coauthor of the...
Prof. Lois R. Lupica is the Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland, where she teaches bankruptcy, secured transactions, commercial and consumer arbitration, and professional responsibility. Prior to becoming a professor in 1995, she practiced law...
Prof. David A. Skeel is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia. He is the author of Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Oxford University Press, 2005); Debt's Dominion: A History of...
Jack D. Ayer, Professor of Law Emeritus-at the University if California at Davis, who was a bankruptcy judge in Los Angeles-and counsel to the LA firm of Stutman, Treister & Glatt, in its day the premier West Coast business bankruptcy boutique. Prof. Ayer also taught at Stanford, Penn, Texas, NYU...
Nathalie Martin is the Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, where she teaches contracts, bankruptcy, the Uniform Commercial Code, and a professional development class for first-year students. She joined the UNM law faculty in 1998 after...
Jeffrey Morris taught at the School of Law since 1981 while remaining active in the area of bankruptcy law. He is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, an elite group of lawyers, judges, and professors that addresses significant issues of bankruptcy, policy, and law. Professor Morris has...
Prof. Edward Janger is the David M. Barse Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School in New York, which he joined in 1998 after teaching at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and the Ohio State University College of Law. Prof. Janger served as the ABI Robert M. Zinman Scholar-in...
Regularly retained as expert witness and mediator in bankruptcy and other matters. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for District of Columbia, 1972-1983. Designated by Chief Justice Warren Burger to serve on United States Bankruptcy Court for District of Maryland, 1981 - 1982. Member, American Bankruptcy...
Marianne Culhane is Dean and Professor at Creighton University School of Law School She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Carleton College, and her Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Iowa, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and the recipient...
Prof. David G. Epstein is the George E. Allen Chair Professor of Law at the University of Richmond Law School in Richmond, Va., and the Spring 2003 ABI Robert M. Zinman Scholar-in-Residence. Previously, he practiced law with King & Spalding and Haynes and Boone, served as dean of two law schools and...
Prof. G. Ray Warner is a professor of law and the associate dean of bankruptcy studies at St. John's University School of Law in New York and directs its LL.M. in Bankruptcy program. He is also Of Counsel to Greenberg Traurig LLP. Prior to joining the St. John's faculty, Prof. Warner was the William...
Jack F. Williams is a tenured professor at Georgia State University College of Law and the Middle East Institute in Atlanta, where he teaches and/or conducts research in the areas of bankruptcy and business reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, commercial law and damages models, corporate...