Prof. Margaret Howard

Prof. Margaret Howard is a professor of law at Washington & Lee Law School in Lexington, Va., where she teaches courses in contracts, bankruptcy and secured transactions. She began her teaching career at St. Louis University and has also been a member of the faculty of Vanderbilt Law School. In 1999, she was the recipient of Vanderbilt Law School?s Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching. At\nWashington & Lee, she has won awards for both teaching and scholarship. She has also visited at Emory, Duke, Washington University and the University of North Carolina Law Schools. Prof. Howard was the Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Alabama in 2005, and the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard during the spring of 2001. During the spring of 2002, she was ABI?s Scholar in Residence, and she previously served as ABI?s Vice President-Rsearch Grants.\nProf. Howard has written a number of articles on bankruptcy, one of which ? ?Shifting Risk & Fixing\nBlame: The Vexing Problem of Credit Card Obligations in Bankruptcy,? 75 Am. Bankr. L.J. 63 (2001)? won the American Bankruptcy Law Journal?s Editors? Prize. Her casebook on bankruptcy, published by West, is now in its sixth edition. Prof. Howard is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy topics, and testified before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission on discharge in consumer bankruptcy. She is past chair of the Section on Creditors? and Debtors? Rights of the Association of American Law Schools and has served on the faculties of the American Board of Certification and the Association of Certified\nTurnaround Professionals. She currently serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, and has formerly served on the editorial boards of The Business Lawyer, Business Law Today and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, for which she remains a peer reviewer. In December 2015, Prof. Howard became the inaugural recipient of ABI?s Jean Braucher Memorial Award for leadership in the field of consumer bankruptcy. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University, her J.D. and M.S.W. from Washington University in St. Louis, and her LL.M. from Yale Law School.\nShe is a member of the Order of the Coif and is listed in Who?s Who of American Women.