Mr. Barry E. Adler

Barry E. Adler is the Bernard Petrie Professor of Law and Business at New York University School of Law in New York and Associate Dean for Information Services and Technology; he re- cently completed a term as Vice Dean. He joined the New York University School of Law faculty in 1996. Prior to that, he was the Sullivan & Cromwell Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Prof. Adler's course offerings have included bankruptcy, commercial law, contracts, corporate finance and corporations. He has written numerous articles on the application of corpo- rate finance theory to issues of corporate insolvency and is currently at work on a book, The Law of Last Resort, which will provide insights from much of his early scholarship to regulatory reform in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. In addition, he has joined the casebook Cases, Problems, and Materials on Bankruptcy as co-author, and he is the editor of a reader, Foundations of Bankruptcy Law. Prof. Adler clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From 1986-88, he was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. Before joining the faculty at University of Virginia in 1994, Adler was on the faculties of George Mason University School of Law, then Emory University School of Law. He has also been a visit- ing faculty member at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School. Prof. Adler spent the summer of 1995 as a consultant for the Harvard Institute of International Development on its Russian legal reform project. He has advised on corporate and insolvency issues, and also serves from time to time as an expert witness or consultant on the same issues. Prof. Adler received his B.S. from Cor- nell University in 1982 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985, where he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. H.