Mass Torts in Bankruptcy

• The End(s) of Bankruptcy Exceptionalism: Purdue Pharma and the Problem of Social Debt, 46 Cardozo Law Review 861 (2025) (with Jonathan C. Lipson)

• Taking Bankruptcy Exceptionalism Seriously in Mass Tort Reorganization After Purdue Pharma, Oxford Business Law Blog (March 19, 2025) (with Jonathan C. Lipson)

• The End(s) of Bankruptcy Exceptionalism: The Future of Mass Tort Reorganization After Purdue Pharma, Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable (July 17, 2024) (with Jonathan C. Lipson)

• Silencing Litigation Through Bankruptcy, 109 Virginia Law Review 1261 (2023) (with Christopher K. Odinet)

• Brief for Amici Curiae Bankruptcy Law Professors in Support of Petitioner (In re Purdue Pharma) (in the Purdue Pharma Supreme Court Appeal, with Jonathan Lipson)

• Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors in Support of Appellees Regarding the “Abuse” Standard (in the Purdue Pharma 2nd Circuit Appeal, with Jonathan Lipson)

Nonprofits Filing Bankruptcy

• Lender Discrimination, Black Churches, and Bankruptcy, 50 Houston Law Review 101 (2017)

• When Faith Falls Short: Bankruptcy Decisions of Churches, 76 Ohio State Law Journal 1319 (2015)

• Secured Credit in Religious Institutions’ Reorganizations, 2015 University of Illinois Law Review Slip Opinions 51 (2015)

• When Churches Reorganize, 88 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 277 (2014)

• Bankrupting the Faith, 78 Missouri Law Review 719 (2013)

• Chapter 11 Reorganization And The Fair And Equitable Standard: How The Absolute Priority Rule Applies To All Nonprofit Entities, 86 St. John’s Law Review 31 (2012)

Consumer Bankruptcy Project

• Debt on the Ground: The Scholarly Discourse on Bankruptcy and Financial Precarity, 20 Annual Review of Law & Social Sciences 219 (2024) (with Robert M. Lawless and Deborah Thorne)

• Portraits of Bankruptcy Filers, 56 Georgia Law Review 573 (2022) (with Robert M. Lawless and Deborah Thorne)

• Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout from Life in a Risk Society, 90 Sociological Inquiry 681 (2020) (with Deborah Thorne, Robert M. Lawless, and Katherine Porter)

• Driven to Bankruptcy, 55 Wake Forest Law Review 287 (2020) (with Robert M. Lawless and Deborah Thorne)

• How Often Do Debtors Seek to Reaffirm Auto Loans? A Report Based on Consumer Bankruptcy Project Data, 39-1 American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 46 (2020) (with Robert M. Lawless and Deborah Thorne)

• Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act (editorial), 109 American Journal of Public Health 431 (2019) (with David U. Himmelstein, Robert M. Lawless, Deborah Thorne, and Steffie Woolhandler)

• Life in the Sweatbox, 94 Notre Dame Law Review 219 (2018) (with Robert M. Lawless, Katherine Porter, and Deborah Thorne)

• “No Money Down” Bankruptcy, 90 Southern California Law Review 1055 (2017) (with Robert M. Lawless, Katherine Porter, and Deborah Thorne)

• Attorneys’ Fees and Chapter Choice: Exploring “No Money Down” Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, 36-6 American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 20 (2017) (with Robert M. Lawless, Katherine Porter, and Deborah Thorne)

Consumer Bankruptcy, Generally

• The Periphery of Bankruptcy Law: The Importance of Non-Bankruptcy Issues in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases, 98 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 527 (2024)

• Changing the Student Loan Dischargeability Framework: How the Department of Education Can Ease the Path for Borrowers in Bankruptcy, 106 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes 1 (2021) (with Aaron S. Ament and Daniel A. Zibel)

• Consumer Bankruptcy Should Be Increasingly Irrelevant – Why Isn’t It?, 36 Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal 653 (2020)

• Fines, Fees, and Filing Bankruptcy, 98 North Carolina Law Review 419 (2020)

• A New Deal for Debtors: Providing Procedural Justice in Consumer Bankruptcy, 60 Boston College Law Review 2297 (2019)

• Access to Consumer Bankruptcy, 34 Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal 341 (2018)

Consumer Credit and Debt

• Credit Scoring Duality, 85 Law & Contemporary Problems 101 (2022) (with Sara S. Greene)

• Steering Loan Modifications Post-Pandemic, 85 Law & Contemporary Problems 201 (2022) (with Dalié Jiménez and Christopher K. Odinet)

• Fintech’s Role in Exacerbating or Reducing the Wealth Gap, 2021 University of Illinois Law Review 459 (2021) (with Nathalie Martin)

• Bursting the Auto Loan Bubble in the Wake of COVID-19, 106 Iowa Law Review 2215 (2021)

• Consumers’ Declining Power In The Fintech Auto Loan Market, 15 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law 5 (2020)

• CARES Act Gimmicks: How Not to Give People Money During a Pandemic and What to Do Instead, 2020 University of Illinois Law Review 81 (with Dalié Jiménez and Christopher K. Odinet)

• The Debt Collection Pandemic, 11 California Law Review Online 222 (2020) (with Dalié Jiménez and Christopher K. Odinet)

• The Folly of Credit As Pandemic Relief, 68 UCLA Law Review Discourse 126 (2020) (with Dalié Jiménez and Christopher K. Odinet)

• Debt’s Emotional Encumbrances, Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Emotion (Susan A. Bandes, Jody Lynee Madeira, Kathryn Temple, and Emily Kidd White eds. 2020)

• Calling on the CFPB for Help: Telling Stories and Consumer Protection, 80 Law & Contemporary Problems 177 (2017)

For all my publications, see my CV.