Prof. Bruce A. Markell

Bruce A. Markell 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, he clerked for then-judge Anthony M. Kennedy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before taking the bench, he 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. He is the author of numerous articles on bankruptcy and commercial law, and a co-author of four law school casebooks. Prof. Markell has been a visiting professor at, among other schools, Peking University School of Law in Beijing and Harvard Law School. He contributes to Collier on Bankruptcy, and is a member of Collier?s editorial advisory board. He also is a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a founding member of the International Insolvency Institute, and a life member of the American Law Institute. Prof. Markell served as a commissioner for ABI?s Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy, where he served as the chair of its Case Administration and the Estate Committee. He received the Commercial Law League of America?s Lawrence King Award in 2022, and in 2016, he completed a project redrafting Kosovo?s bankruptcy law. He has consulted with the International Monetary Fund on insolvency-related issues (having been part of the IMF?s missions to Ireland, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, Belarus, Georgia and Greece). Prof. Markell 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.

Hon. Bruce A. Markell