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Current & Recent Research at Penn Law

The Penn Law faculty are engaged in a wide array of scholarship in traditional, cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge areas of inquiry. This newly created section of our website, which we will continue to populate in the months ahead, gives you access and the ability to search current and earlier work.

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"Sovereignty" Issues and the Church Bankruptcy Cases, 29 SETON HALL LEGIS. J. 345 (2005).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Debtor/Creditor Law, International Banking, Law and Society, Religion

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)).
Date Posted: July 28, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Corporations

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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Business Entities, Corporations, Debtor/Creditor Law

Avoiding Moral Bankruptcy, 44 B.C. L. REV. 1181 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy, Religion

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.
Date Posted: April 07, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Government and Legislation, Law and Business, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy Law, Business Entities, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Government Regulation, Politics

Bankruptcy's Home Economics, 12 AM. BANKR. INST. L. REV. 43 (2004).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Debtor/Creditor Law, Law and Society

Can Majority Voting Provisions Do it All?, 52 EMORY L.J. 417 (2003).
Date Posted: March 21, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Corporations, Debtor/Creditor Law, Economics, Management

Christianity of the (Modest) Rule of Law, 8 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 809 (2006) (with William Stuntz).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy, Religion

Corporate Anatomy Lessons, 113 YALE L.J. 1519 (2004) (reviewing REINIER KRAAKMAN, THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH (2004)).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Comparative Law, Corporations, Government Regulation, International Law, Legal Studies

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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Comparative Law, Corporations, Debtor/Creditor Law, Management

Corporate Shaming Revisited: An Essay for Bill Klein, 2 BERKELEY BUS. L.J. 105 (2005).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Management, Moral and Political Philosophy, Professional Ethics

Creditors Ball: The "New" New Corporate Governance in Chapter 11, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 917 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Corporations, Debtor/Creditor Law, Economics, Management

DEBT'S DOMINION: A HISTORY OF BANKRUPTCY LAW IN AMERICA (Princeton University Press 2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and History
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Debtor/Creditor Law, Economics, Legal History

Employees, Pensions and Governance in Chapter 11, 82 WASH. U. L.Q. 1469 (2005).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Business Entities, Corporations, Debtor/Creditor Law, Economics, Labor Law, Management

European Implications of Bankruptcy Venue Shopping, 54 BUFF. L. REV. 439 (2006).
Date Posted: February 03, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Courts, European Union Law, International Law

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)).
Date Posted: October 29, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Government and Legislation, Law and Business, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Corporate Finance, Corporations, Economics, Government Regulation, Property-Personal and Real

ICARUS IN THE BOARDROOM: THE FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS IN CORPORATE AMERICA AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM (Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Economics, Risk

Icarus and American Corporate Regulation, in Joseph McCahery et al., eds., AFTER ENRON: IMPROVING CORPORATE LAW AND MODERNIZING SECURITIES REGULATION IN EUROPE AND IN THE US (forthcoming Oxford Univ. Press).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Business Entities, Corporations, Economics, Management, Risk, Securities Law

Inside the Black Box: How Should a Sovereign Bankruptcy Regime be Structured?, 53 EMORY L.J. 763 (2004) (with Patrick Bolton).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Government and Legislation, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Comparative Law, Debtor/Creditor Law, Economics, Government Regulation

Lockups and Delaware Venue in Corporate Law and Bankruptcy, 68 U. CIN. L. REV. 1243 (2000).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Business Entities, Corporations, Debtor/Creditor Law, State and Local Government Law

Masters of Illusion: The Supreme Court and the Religion Clauses (by Frank S. Ravich), 50 J. CHURCH & ST. 599 (2008) (book review).
Date Posted: May 11, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Religion

Odious Debts or Odious Regimes?, 70 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 83 (Autumn 2007) (with Patrick Bolton).
Date Posted: July 23, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Human Rights Law, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Debtor/Creditor Law, Human Rights Law

Racial Dimensions of Credit and Bankruptcy, 61 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1695 (2004).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Debtor/Creditor Law, Race Relations

Redesigning the International Lender of Last Resort, U. 6 CHI. J. INT'L L. 177 (2005) (with Patrick Bolton).
Date Posted: May 02, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Debtor/Creditor Law, Economic Development, Economics, International Banking, International Law

Shaming in Corporate Law, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1811 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Corporations, Management, Moral and Political Philosophy, Professional Ethics

The Law and Finance of Bank and Insurance Insolvency Regulation, 76 TEX. L. REV. 723 (1998).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy Law, Business Entities, Economics, Government Regulation, Insurance Law, Organizations, Regulated Industries

The Lawyer as Confidence-Man, 101 COLUM. L. REV. 1750 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law, the Profession, and the Public Interest
Keywords: Biography, Law and Literature, Legal Profession

The Past, Present and Future of Debtor-in-Possession Financing, 25 CARDOZO L. REV. 1905 (2004).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Commercial Law, Law and Business
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Debtor/Creditor Law

The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives, 75 U. CIN. L. REV. 1019 (2007) (with Frank Partnoy).
Date Posted: January 30, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Commercial Law, Law and Business, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Banking and Finance, Debtor/Creditor Law, Government Regulation, Risk, Securities Law

The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Scholarship, 57 EMORY L.J. 1471 (2008).
Date Posted: December 23, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and History, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy, Religion

Vern Countryman and the Path of Progressive Legal Scholarship, 113 HARV. L. REV. 1075 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law, the Profession, and the Public Interest
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Biography, Legal Education, Legal History

What Were Jesus and the Pharisees Talking About When They Talked About Law? 23 J.L. RELIGION 141 (2007-2008).
Date Posted: February 04, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and History, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Religion

What's So Bad About Delaware?, 54 VAND L. REV. 309 (2001).
Date Posted: March 21, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Corporations, Debtor/Creditor Law, State and Local Government Law

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).
Date Posted: January 30, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Regulatory Systems
Keywords: Comparative Law, Corporations, Government Regulation, Securities Law

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).
Date Posted: October 03, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: David Arthur Skeel
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Business Entities, Economics, Organizations, State and Local Government Law