Prof. Jay L. Westbrook

Jay L. Westbrook is the Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law at The University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas. He has also taught at Harvard Law School, the University of London and Humboldt University-Berlin. Prof. Westbrook headed the American Law Institute Transnational Insolvency Project and the U.S. Delegation to the UNICITRAL Working Group on Transnational In- solvency. Among his books and articles are The Law of Debtors and Creditors (Aspen 6th ed. 2009) (co-author) and A Global View of Business Insolvency Systems (Martinus Nijhoff 2010) (senior editor and co-author). He also co-wrote the Warren & Westbrook column for several years in the ABI Journal with now-Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. Mass.). Prof. Westbrook serves as a consultant to the IMF and the World Bank. He received both his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.