Elizabeth Warren

Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Empirical and Policy Work in Bankruptcy and Commercial Law
• Financially Distressed Companies
• Women, the Elderly, and the Working Poor in Bankruptcy

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Bankruptcy
• Commercial Law
• Contracts
• Empirical Studies of Legal Systems

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Bankruptcy
• Business Failure
• Business/Corporations
• Consumer Debt
• Contracts
• Corporate Reorganization
• Divorce and Bankruptcy
• Environmental Law and Bankruptcy
• Families in Bankruptcy for Medical Reasons
• Health Care Economics
• International Bankruptcy
• Mass Torts and Bankruptcy
• Medical Debt and Bankruptcy
• Small Business Failure
• Transnational Insolvencies

Education

• University of Houston B.S. 1970
• Rutgers University J.D. 1976

Appointments

• Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Law, 1992
• Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, 1995

Representative Publications

• Warren, Elizabeth & Jay Lawrence Westbrook. "The Success of Chapter 11: A Challenge to the Critics," 107 Michigan Law Review 603 (2009).
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• Warren, Elizabeth, David U. Himmelstein MD, Deborah Thorne & Steffie Woolhandler MD MPH. "Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study," American Journal of Medicine, August.
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• Warren, Elizabeth, Deborah Thorne, Ph.D. & Teresa A. Sullivan. "Bankruptcy's Aging Population - The Increasing Vulnerability of Older Americans: Evidence from the Bankruptcy Court," 3 Harvard Law & Policy Review 87 (2009).
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• Warren, Elizabeth, Robert M. Lawless, Angela K. Littwin, Katherine M. Porter, John A.E. Pottow & Deborah K. Thorne. "Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail? An Empirical Study of Consumer Debtors," 82 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 349 (2008).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Warren, Elizabeth & Oren Bar-Gill. "Making Credit Safer," 157 University of Pa. Law Review 1 (2008).
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• Warren, Elizabeth. "The Vanishing Middle Class" in Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream 38 (The New Press, 2007).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  (Edited by John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Kalleberg. Published in conjunction with the the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  
• Warren, Elizabeth. "Service Pays: Creating Opportunities by Linking College with Public Service," 1 Harvard Law & Policy Review 127 (2007).
  Full text: WWW
  ((with Sandy Baum and Ganesh Sitaraman))
  
• Warren, Elizabeth. "Unsafe at Any Rate," 8 DEMOCRACY: A Journal of Ideas (2007).
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Bibliography

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