Bankruptcy, lending, bankruptcy courts, financial consequences of illness or injury
Relevant Experience:
• 2011-2011 Assisted in drafting legislation and testified, H.R. 2533, Ch. 11 Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2011. • 2010-2013 • Working Group, Rethinking Regulation, Duke University Kenan Institute for Ethics • 2008-2009 Consultant, Federal Judicial Center, Case Management Manual for U.S. Bankruptcy Judges • 2004-2004 Witness, A Review of Hospital Billing and Collection Practices, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives • 2001-2006 Consultant, Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, Judicial Conference of the United States (
Distinctions:
• 2017-ongoing elected to American College of Commercial Financial Lawyers • 2016-2016 Scholar in Residence, American Bankruptcy Institute • 2012-2012 Pro Bono Publico Faculty of the Year Award, UNC School of Law • 2012-ongoing American College of Bankruptcy election/induction 2013 • 2011-ongoing Awarded Graham Kenan professorship • 2011-2011 Distinguished Visiting Health Law Scholar, Seton Hall University • 2010-2010 Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute Distinguished Visiting Professor • 2010-2010 John L. Gedid Distinguished Lecturer, Widener University School of Law • 2009-2009 Byrd Award for Teaching, UNC School of Law • 2004-2004 Young Scholar Award, American Society for Law Medicine & Ethics • 2004-ongoing American Law Institute election • 2004-2004 Friel/Scanlan Award for Scholarship, Temple University • 1999-ongoing National Bankruptcy Conference election
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• LAW 238 Bankruptcy • LAW 275 Secured Transactions
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Presiding Over Municipal Bankruptcy: Then, Now, and Puerto Rico, 91 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW JOURNAL 375-390 (2017)
• 2014 Financial Fragility, Medical Problems, and the Bankruptcy System, in WORKING AND LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF FINANCIAL FRAGILITY (Marion Crain & Michael Sherraden, eds., Oxford U. Press, forthcoming 2014), with Mirya Holman
• 2014 Ice Cube Bonds: Allocating the Price of Process in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, forthcoming, 123 Yale Law Journal __ (2014), with Edward J. Janger
• 2014 Bankruptcy During Foreclosure: Home Preservation Through Chapters 7 and 13 __ HOUSING POLICY DEBATE (2014), with Mark R. Lindblad, Roberto G. Quercia, & Ling Wang
• 2011 In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners, 80 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY LAW JOURNAL 291- 322 (2011), with Eric Belsky & Daniel McCue
• 2010 Managing Medical Bills on the Brink of Bankruptcy, 10 YALE JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY, LAW & ETHICS 239-297 (2010), with Mirya Holman
• 2009 Empirical and Policy Perspectives on Consumer Bankruptcy Law in the United States, in ENDEUDAMIENTO DEL CONSUMIDOR E INSOLVENCIA FAMILIAR (Matilde Cuena Casas & Jose Louis Colina Mediavilla eds., 2009)
• 2005 Beyond Hospital Misbehavior: An Alternative Account of Medical-Related Financial Distress, 100 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 535-584 (2006), with Elizabeth Warren
• 2004 Book Review Essay, 40 CANADIAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 455-465 (2004) (reviewing JACOB S. ZIEGEL, COMPARATIVE CONSUMER INSOLVENCY REGIMES (2003)
• 2003 Generosity versus Accessibility: Bankruptcy, Consumer Credit, and Health Care Finance in the U.S., in CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 282-300 (Johanna Niemi-Kiesiläinen, Iain Ramsay, & William C. Whitford, eds. 2003)
• 2002 Foreclosing on Fame: Exploring the Uncharted Boundaries of the Right of Publicity, 77 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1322-1368 (2002), with Diane Leenheer Zimmerman
• 2002 Does Indebtedness Influence Health? A Preliminary Inquiry, 30 JOURNAL OF LAW MEDICINE & ETHICS 560-571 (2002)
• 2001 Rethinking the Debates over Health Care Financing: Evidence from the Bankruptcy Courts, 76 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 375-418 (2001), with Teresa A. Sullivan and Elizabeth Warren
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