Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law

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In 1986, nine months after finding out about an impending opening on the Penn Law faculty, Mooney left the wellheeled corridors of Shearman & Sterling in New York, where he was a partner, and bid farewell to 14 years of private practice. He traded his pinstripes for khakis and entered the academy. And he’s never looked back.

Mooney, who recently reached an academic milestone with his appointment as the Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law, calls the move “the best decision I ever made… What appealed to me was the chance to dig into legal issues and get to the bottom of them.”

Eighteen years later, he’s still digging. Mooney, an acknowledged expert on commercial and bankruptcy law, is an author of Security Interests in Personal Property, a case book that is used at law schools nationwide. These days, he is working on a comprehensive normative theory of bankruptcy. That pursuit has led him to think long and hard about bankruptcy filings and their purpose.