Ms. Pamela Foohey

Prof. Pamela Foohey is a professor of law at University of Georgia School of Law, where her research centers on bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer finance and business law. Her work primarily involves empirical studies of bankruptcy and related parts of the legal system, combining quantitative and qualitative research. Prof. Foohey is a co-investigator on the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a long-term research project studying persons who file bankruptcy. Data from this research project serve as the basis of her in-progress co-authored book Debt?s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy, forthcoming with the University of California Press. Her work in business bankruptcy focuses on nonprofit entities, with a particular emphasis on how religious organizations use bankruptcy. Data from this project are included in her other in-progress book Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy As a Site of Resistance, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. She is a co-author for Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, a leading textbook on the topic. Prof. Foohey has assisted members of Congress and federal and state agencies in the areas of bankruptcy and consumer credit. She has also provided expert media commentary for high profile publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times and The Washington Post, in addition to Bloomberg and National Public Radio. She is a member of the American Law Institute and has served on the executive committees of several Association of American Law Schools sections. She is a co-organizer of the Law & Society Association?s Household Finance Collaborative Research Network and serves on the editorial advisory board of the Law & Society Review. She previously served a three-year appointment on the editorial advisory board of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Additionally, she is active in the American Bankruptcy Institute, having served as part of its Diversity Working Group since its formation. In 2019, the ABI named her a ?40 Under 40? Emerging Leader in Insolvency Practice. Prior to joining UGA School of Law, Prof. Foohey was a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She also was a visiting assistant professor at University of Illinois College of Law. Prior to entering academia, Foohey served as a judicial clerk for Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Peter J. Walsh of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. She also worked as an associate in the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group of Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis. Foohey earned her B.S. summa cum laude from New York University?s undergraduate Stern School of Business and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.