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Prof. David Skeel

S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

David Skeel is the author of Icarus in the Boardroom (Oxford, 2005) and Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001), as well as numerous articles and other publications. He has been interviewed on Nightline, Chris Matthews' Hardball (MSNBC), National Public Radio, and Marketplace, among others, and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other newspapers and magazines. Skeel has twice received the Harvey Levin award for outstanding teaching, as selected by a vote of the graduating class, and has also received the University's Lindback Award for distinguished teaching. In addition to corporate law and bankruptcy, Skeel also writes on sovereign debt, law and religion, and poetry and the law, and is an elder at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.


Education

  • J.D. - University of Virginia - '87
  • B.A. - University of North Carolina - '83

Publications

Dodd-Frank - Event Audio/Video
15th Annual Faculty Conference
January 10, 2013
When States Go Broke - Event Video
Faculty Division
November 14, 2012
When States Go Broke - Faculty Division Podcast
Faculty Division Podcast 09-19-12 featuring David Skeel and Richard Hynes
September 19, 2012
Solving the "Too Big to Fail" Problem: Resolution Authority vs. Chapter 14 - Podcast
Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group Podcast
July 13, 2012
Bankruptcy and Forum Shopping (Marshall v. Marshall) - Podcast
Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group
June 29, 2010

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