Prof. G. Ray Warner

G. Ray Warner is a professor of law St. John's University School of Law in New York and Of Counsel to Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He served as associate dean of Bankruptcy Studies at St. John's from 2003-15, where he built the nation's most extensive bankruptcy program and its only bankruptcy- specific LL.M. degree program. Previously, he taught at the UMKC School of Law, where he was the school's William B. Boreland Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Law. In 2013, Prof. Warner received the prestigious Leadership in Education Award from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He has published numerous articles on bankruptcy, commercial law and consumer law, and has consulted in many major bankruptcy, commercial law and consumer law cases. Prof. Warner is a multiple recipient of law school teaching awards and a frequent seminar speaker. He is a founder of the American Board of Certification, the national credentialing body for bankruptcy and creditors' rights practitioners, and is a director and former secretary of ABI, which awarded him its most prestigious award, the Annual Service Award. Prof. Warner is the course leader for the INSOL Global Insolvency Practice Course and a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, where he heads its multi-school international bankruptcy course. He is also a founding member of the International Insolvency Institute, an editor of the International Insolvency Law Review, and a former chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education. Prof. Warner co-advisor to the ABI Law Re- view and heads the national Conrad B. Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition, both of which are co-sponsored by St. John's and the ABI. He received his J.D. from Northwestern University in 1980 and his LL.M. from New York University in 1985.