Education
- JDUniversity of Virginia87
- BAUniversity of North Carolina83
Courses Taught
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Corporations| Bankruptcy| Debt Relief and Sovereign Debt Restructuring| Law, Literature, and Interpretation| Christian Perspectives on Law
Contact Information
Phone
2155739859
Email
dskeel@law.upenn.edu
Fax
2155732025
David Arthur Skeel
S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law
David Skeel is S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He is the author of True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World (InterVarsity, 2014); The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley, 2011); Icarus in the Boardroom (Oxford, 2005); Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton, 2001); and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, financial regulation, Christianity and law, and other topics.
Professor Skeel has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, The Weekly Standard, and other publications. He has received the Harvey Levin award three times for outstanding teaching, as selected by a vote of the graduating class, the Robert A. Gorman award for excellence in upper level course teaching, and the University’s Lindback Award for distinguished teaching.