Prof. Bruce A. Markell
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Prof. Bruce A. Markell</strong> is the Professor of Bankruptcy Law and Practice and the Edward Avery Harriman Lecturer in Law at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law in Chicago. From 2013-15, he was the Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law at Florida State University School of Law, and before that he was a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada, a position he had held since 2004. After law school, Prof. Markell clerked for then-judge Anthony M. Kennedy on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before taking the bench, he had practiced bankruptcy and business law in Los Angeles for 10 years, where he was a partner at Sidley & Austin, and was a law professor for 14 years. Prof. Markell has authored numerous articles on bankruptcy and commercial law, and co-authored four law school casebooks. He has been a visiting professor at, among other schools, Peking University School of Law in Beijing and Harvard Law School. Prof. Markell contributes to <em>Collier on Bankruptcy</em> and is a member of <em>Collier</em>’s editorial advisory board. He is a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a charter member of the International Insolvency Institute and a member of the American Law Institute. He also is a founding member of the NITA-trained faculty of the Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Institute. Prof. Markell consults with the International Monetary Fund on insolvency-related issues (having been part of the IMF’s missions to Ireland, Bosnia, Belarus, Montenegro, Serbia, Georgia and Greece), and he was the primary drafter of Kosovo’s current bankruptcy law. He also is an associate editor of the <em>Bankruptcy Law Letter</em> and regularly contributes articles to that publication. In 2022, Prof. Markell won the Lawrence P. King Award from the Commercial Law League of America. He received his J.D. in 1980 from the University of California at Davis, where he was editor-in-chief of its law review and a recipient of the School of Law Medal.</p>
Hon. Bruce A. Markell