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Tel: 215.573.9859
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: dskeel@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Bankruptcy
- Corporate Labor Law
Bio
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.
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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.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law (2004- ); Professor of Law (1999-2003)
Member, European Corporate Governance Institute (2007- ); American College of Bankruptcy (2009- )
Visiting Professor - Georgetown, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin
Temple - Associate Professor of Law (1993-98); Assistant Professor (1990-93)
Representative Publications
Governance in the Ruins, 122 HARV. L. REV. 696 (2008) (reviewing CURTIS J. MILHAUPT & KATHARINA PISTOR, LAW AND CAPITALISM: WHAT CORPORATE CRISES REVEAL ABOUT LEGAL SYSTEMS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AROUND THE WORLD (2008)).
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The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Scholarship, 57 EMORY L.J. 1471 (2008).
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Odious Debts or Odious Regimes?, 70 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 83 (Autumn 2007) (with Patrick Bolton).
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The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives, 75 U. CIN. L. REV. 1019 (2007) (with Frank Partnoy).
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Who Writes the Rules for Hostile Takeovers, and Why?--The Peculiar Divergence of U.S. and U.K. Takeover Regulation, 95 GEO. L. J. 1727 (2007) (with John Armour).
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Christianity of the (Modest) Rule of Law, 8 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 809 (2006) (with William Stuntz).
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An Efficiency-Based Explanation for Current Corporate Reorganization Practice, 73 U. CHI. L. REV. 425 (2006) (with Ken Ayotte) (reviewing LYNN LOPUCKI, COURTING FAILURE (2005)).
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ICARUS IN THE BOARDROOM: THE FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS IN CORPORATE AMERICA AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM (Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
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Redesigning the International Lender of Last Resort, U. 6 CHI. J. INT'L L. 177 (2005) (with Patrick Bolton).
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"Sovereignty" Issues and the Church Bankruptcy Cases, 29 SETON HALL LEGIS. J. 345 (2005).
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The Past, Present and Future of Debtor-in-Possession Financing, 25 CARDOZO L. REV. 1905 (2004).
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Inside the Black Box: How Should a Sovereign Bankruptcy Regime be Structured?, 53 EMORY L.J. 763 (2004) (with Patrick Bolton).
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Corporate Anatomy Lessons, 113 YALE L.J. 1519 (2004) (reviewing REINIER KRAAKMAN, THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH (2004)).
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Creditors Ball: The "New" New Corporate Governance in Chapter 11, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 917 (2003).
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Can Majority Voting Provisions Do it All?, 52 EMORY L.J. 417 (2003).
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Avoiding Moral Bankruptcy, 44 B.C. L. REV. 1181 (2003).
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Corporate Ownership Structure and the Evolution of Bankruptcy Law: Lessons Learned From the United Kingdom 55 VAND. L. REV. 1699 (2002) (with John Armour and Brian Cheffins).
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DEBT'S DOMINION: A HISTORY OF BANKRUPTCY LAW IN AMERICA (Princeton University Press 2001).
The Lawyer as Confidence-Man, 101 COLUM. L. REV. 1750 (2001).
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Shaming in Corporate Law, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1811 (2001).
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What's So Bad About Delaware?, 54 VAND L. REV. 309 (2001).
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Vern Countryman and the Path of Progressive Legal Scholarship, 113 HARV. L. REV. 1075 (2000).
The Law and Finance of Bank and Insurance Insolvency Regulation, 76 TEX. L. REV. 723 (1998).
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An Evolutionary Theory of Corporate Law and Corporate Bankruptcy, 51 VAND. L. REV. 1325 (1998) (selected as one of ten best corporate and securities articles of year and reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator (vol. 41, 1999-2000).
The Unanimity Norm in Delaware Corporate Law, 83 VA. L. REV. 127 (1997) (selected in survey by Corporate Practice Commentator as one of ten best corporate and securities articles of year).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Bankruptcy or Bailouts? (March 2, 2009) (with Kenneth Ayotte). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-11; Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-05.
Why Do Distressed Companies Choose Delaware? An Empirical Analysis of Venue Choice in Bankruptcy, (U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 03-29, October 2004) (with Kenneth Ayotte).
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