English insolvency law scholarship is in its infancy compared with our American and Canadian cousins. Professor Ian F Fletcher's first book, published in 1978, could be seen as the start point of academic consideration of the topic in England and Wales (Fletcher, IF. Law of Bankruptcy. Macdonald and Evans, Plymouth, 1978), although there were of course PhDs in 1965 (Cadwallader, FJJ. In pursuit of the merchant debtor and bankrupt: 1066-1732. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University College London, University of London. June 1965.) and 1927 (Treiman, I. A History of the English Law of Bankruptcy, with Special Reference to the Origins, Continental Sources, and Early Development of the Principal Features of the Law. University of Oxford. Unpublished D.Phil thesis. 1927) that sprung from these shores. I have addressed the supposed dearth of English personal insolvency scholarship elsewhere.
Having in mind the more advanced position of our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic I thought it might be expedient to list here the names of some current and past American and Canadian bankruptcy (and related subject) professors, so that easier reference may be had to their work. Some of the professor are bankruptcy professors in a strict sense. Other professor have published work on bankruptcy as part of their wider work. I have already done a fairly similar exercise in relation to English insolvency professors. I have not given details of our American and Canadian colleagues' particular specialisations as in many cases this is broad and encompasses both the corporate and personal side of the subject. In no particular order, the following professors have an interest in insolvency law:
America
- Professor Jay L Westbrook - University of Texas
- Professor Lynn LoPucki - UCLA
- Professor Douglas Baird - University of Chicago
- Professor Karen Gross - New York Law School - see blog entry on her work here.
- Professor Emily Kadens - University of Texas
- Professor Angela Littwin - University of Texas
- Professor Mechele Dickerson - University of Texas
- Professor Adam Levitin - Georgetown University
- Professor Deborah Thorne - Ohio University
- Professor Katherine Porter - University of Iowa
- Professor Susan Block-Lieb - Fordham University Law School
- Professor Elizabeth Warren (pictured) - Harvard Law School
- Professor John Pottow - University of Michigan
- Professor Charles D Booth - University of Hawai'i - quite possibly the best place to study insolvency law!
- Professor Charles Tabb - University of Illinois
- Professor Bob Lawless - University of Illinois
- Professor Thomas Jackson
- the late Professor Vern Countryman - Harvard Law School
- Professor Jason Kilborn - The John Marshall Law School
- Professor Stephen J Luben - Seton Hall Law School
- Professor Jean Braucher - The University of Arizona
- Dr Tara Twomey - Stanford University
- Professor Anna Gelpern - Rutgers
- Professor Jonathan C Lipson - Temple University
- Professor Nathalie Martin - UNM School of Law
- Professor James J White - University of Michigan
- Professor Edward J Janger - Brooklyn Law School
- Professor David Skeel - University of Pennsylvania
Canada
- Professor Jacob Ziegel - University of Toronto
- Professor Janis Sarra - University of British Columbia
- Professor Stephanie Ben-Ishal - Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
- Professor Karen A. Duncan, University of Manitoba
- Professor Ruth E. Berry, University of Manitoba
- Professor Saul Schwartz - Carleton University
- Professor Angela Redish - University of British Columbia
- Professor Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia
- Professor Jocelyne Gosselin - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and Université de Moncton
- Professor Benoit Mario Papillon - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and Université de Moncton
- Professor Sébastien Deschênes - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and Université de Moncton
I apologise to any professors whose names I have omitted. I would be happy to address any lacunas in exchange for a visiting research fellowship at your institution - only joking! I will add your name either way. I will update this entry as and when any offers of a visiting research fellowship, I mean contact details, come in.
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