About the Authors
Lynn M. LoPucki
Lynn M. LoPucki is the Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA Law School, and, each fall semester, the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. LoPucki teaches Secured Transactions and Empirical Analysis of Law at both schools.
LoPucki has engaged in empirical research on large public company bankruptcies for the past twenty-five years and has been quoted in several hundred news articles on the topic in just the past five. His Bankruptcy Research Database http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu provides data for much, if not most, empirical work on the topic. LoPucki’s book, Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts (University of Michigan Press 2005) shocked the bankruptcy world with empirical evidence regarding the effects of forum shopping and court competition. The debate over those allegations has dominated recent scholarship in the field. LoPucki and his frequent coauthor, Joseph W. Doherty, are currently working on another book, Controlling Professional Fees in Corporate Bankruptcies, under contract with Oxford University Press.
LoPucki uses an empirically-based systems approach for policy analysis. He has recently proposed public identities as the solution to identify theft, court system transparency as the solution to judicial bias, and an effective filing system as the solution to the deceptive nature of secured credit.
LoPucki is co-author of two widely used casebooks: Secured Credit: A Systems Approach (5th edition, with Elizabeth Warren, 2006) and Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (with Warren, Keating, and Mann, 4th edition, 2009). He also co-wrote a leading practice manual: Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings (with Christopher R. Mirick, 5th edition, 2007) and a popular series of bankruptcy procedure flow charts: Bankruptcy Visuals. LoPucki’s Death of Liability thesis—propounded in a Yale Law Journal article in 1996—is featured in casebooks in several fields.
Education
B.A. University of Michigan, 1965
J.D. University of Michigan, 1967
LL.M. Harvard, 1970
Elizabeth Warren
Professor Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard University, where she won the Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence. Students have also awarded Elizabeth Warren teaching prizes at University of Houston, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. She has written eight books and more than a hundred scholarly articles dealing with credit and economic stress. Warren has been a principal investigator on empirical studies funded by the National Science Foundation and more than a dozen private foundations. She served as Vice-President of the American Law Institute, and she has been inducted into the American Academic of Arts and Sciences. Warren was the Chief Adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, and she was appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist as the first academic member of the Federal Judicial Education Committee. She currently serves as a member of the Commission on Economic Inclusion established by the FDIC. She has testified several times before House and the Senate committees on financial issues. The National Law Journal has repeatedly named Professor Warren as one of the Fifty Most Influential Women Attorneys in America.
EDUCATION
University of Houston B.S. 1970
Rutgers University J.D. 1976
Daniel L. Keating
Daniel Keating's responsibilities as Vice Dean at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law include oversight of academic matters at the law school, including the curriculum, tenure process, and mentoring of new faculty.
Daniel Keating is the author of two case books on commercial law, Sales: A Systems Approach (4th ed. Aspen 2009) and Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (with LoPucki, Warren & Mann; 4th ed. Aspen 2009), as well as a treatise on the employment law implications of bankruptcy, Bankruptcy and Employment Law (Little Brown 1995). He has been the chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Creditors' and Debtors' Rights, and has also chaired the planning committees for the AALS New Law Teachers Workshop, the AALS Workshop on Bankruptcy, and the AALS Commercial Law Workshop. Daniel Keating is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a fellow for the American College of Bankruptcy. Daniel Keating's knowledge of bankruptcy is informed by his firsthand commercial experience as an attorney for The First National Bank of Chicago. He has served twice as Interim Dean of the Washington University School of Law.
His recent writings include, e.g.: Harsh Realities and Silver Linings for Retirees, 15 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, 437 (2007); Why the Bankruptcy Reform Act Left Labor Legacy Costs Alone, 71 Missouri Law Review, 985 (2006); and The Human Side of Commercial Law, 6 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, 213 (2001).
Ronald J. Mann
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law. Austin, TX., Texas Law Review, Managing Editor, 1985
B.A., Rice University. Houston, TX. History, 1982.
Background
Law clerk to Judge Joseph T. Sneed, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1985-1986). Law clerk to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Supreme Court of the United States (1986-1987) . Practiced real estate and transactional law in Houston, Texas (1987-1991). Worked for the Justice Department as an Assistant for the Solicitor General of the United States, (1991-1994) .
Joined the University of Texas faculty in 2003. Assistant professor of law (1997-1999), and professor of law (1999-2003), at the University of Michigan. Assistant professor of law (1994-1997), and professor of law (1997), at Washington University. Visiting professor of law at Harvard in 2005. Joined the Columbia Law School faculty on July 1, 2007.
Member of the American Law Institute. Recently served as the reporter for the amendments to Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Books
- Charging Ahead (Cambridge Univ. Press 2006)
Articles
- Making Sense of Payments Policy in the Information Age, 93 Geo. L.J. 633 (2005)
- Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?, 83 Texas L. Rev. 961 (2005)
- An Empirical Investigation of Liquidation Choices of Failed High-Tech Firms, 82 Wash. U.L.Q. 1375 (2004)
- Regulating Internet Payment Intermediaries, 82 Texas L. Rev. 681 (2004)
- Credit Cards and Debit Cards in the United States and Japan , 55 Vand. L. Rev. 1055 (2002)
- The Role of Letters of Credit in Payment Transactions,99 Mich. L. Rev. 2494 (2000)
- Secured Credit and Software Financing, 85 Cornell L. Rev. 134 (1999)
- Strategy and Force in the Liquidation of Secured Debt, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 159 (1997)
