SEALS, 2024 Annual Meeting
Selected Media
Reporting on work with co-investigators on the Consumer Bankruptcy Project
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’s main segment on April 18, 2021, focused on consumer bankruptcy. That segment referenced Portraits of Bankruptcy Filers and Life in the Sweatbox
“‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans," The New York Times (August 5, 2018) (front page) featured Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout From Life in a Risk Society
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’s main segment on February 16, 2020, focused on Medicare for All. That segment referenced Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act
On older Americans filing bankruptcy: AARP; ABC News; Business Insider; City Journal; The Economist; Forbes; Los Angeles Times; MarketPlace; MarketWatch; NPR; U.S. News and World Report; Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post
On medical contributors to bankruptcy: Business Insider; CNBC; The Guardian; Los Angeles Times
Other media
On who files bankruptcy and when people file bankruptcy: CBS News; MarketWatch; Wall Street Journal
On auto loans: Barron’s; Consumer Reports; ProPublica; ProPublica; Wall Street Journal
On student loan discharge: Bloomberg Law; CNN; USA Today; Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post
On the Supreme Court’s review of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case: BBC; Bloomberg Law; The Economist
On mass tort bankruptcies: CNN; USA Today; Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post
On churches filing bankruptcy: Bloomberg; CBS News Moneywatch
On bankruptcy venue reform: Wall Street Journal
Presentations
Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive
University of Illinois College of Law, Bankruptcy Seminar (February 2025) and Faculty Workshop (February 2024)
Seton Hall Law School, Faculty Colloquium (February 2024)
American Association of Law Schools, 2024 Annual Meeting, Remedies Section (January 2024)
Boston College Law School, Regulation and Markets Workshop (April 2022)
University of Cincinnati College of Law, Corporate Law Symposium (March 2022)
Selected Scholarly Presentations
American Association of Law Schools, 2024 Annual Meeting, Creditors’ and Debtors’ Rights Section’s “Research Methods in Bankruptcy: A Panel Discussion”; University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation (2023); Wharton-Harvard Insolvency and Restructuring Conference (2023); London School of Economics Law School, Personal Insolvency Framework Workshop (2023); Consumer Law Scholars Conference (2022); Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Supervisory Research Forum (SURF) and Consumer Finance Institute (CFI), Fourth Biennial Conference on Auto Lending (2021); Iowa Law School, The Future of Law & Transportation (2020); Harvard Law School, Money as a Democratic Medium (2018); University of Alberta Faculty of Law, Canadian Commercial Law Symposium (2018); Emory University School of Law, Fifteenth Annual EBDJ Symposium (2018); 12th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) (2017); Duke University School of Law and Law & Contemporary Problems (2016); Duke University School of Law, The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America (2015)
Selected Presentations to Legal & Other Communities
43rd Annual Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference (2024); National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, 2024 Annual Meeting, ABLJ Symposium – The Role of Bankruptcy Law in the US Legal System; National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees (NACTT), 2024 59th Annual Seminar; Frank W. Koger Bankruptcy Symposium (2024); Howard University School of Law, DREAMS (2023); United States Bankruptcy Courts, Judicial Interns/Externs Educational Program (2023); American Bankruptcy Institute, 2023 Annual Spring Meeting; Federal Judicial Center National Workshop for Bankruptcy Judges (2022); Fifth Circuit Bankruptcy Bench-Bar Conference (2022); Berkeley Judicial Institute, Berkeley Law (2021); Delaware Bankruptcy American Inn of Court (2020); Indiana Institute for Working Families (2020), Minnesota State Bar, 2019 Minnesota Bankruptcy Institute; Oregon State Bar, 31st Annual Northwest Bankruptcy Institute (2018); Federal Bar of the District of Kansas, Kansas Legal Revitalization Conference (2017); National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, 2016 Annual Meeting, Commercial Law League of America’s Honorable Frank W. Koger Memorial Education Program; Oklahoma Bar Association, 30th Annual Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar (2015)