Prof. Michael D. Sousa

Prof. Michael D. Sousa is an associate professor of bankruptcy and commercial law at the University of Denver?s Sturm College of Law in Denver, where he teaches and pursues scholarship in the areas of bankruptcy law, corporate reorganizations, commercial law, secured transactions, debtor/creditor rights and remedies, sales and business planning. Prior to joining the faculty, he was an associate in the Busi- ness Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group at Duane Morris LLP and served as a judicial law clerk in both state and federal court. Prof. Sousa previously was an adjunct professor of law at Rutgers University School of Law and Seton Hall University School of Law. He served as a law clerk in federal bankruptcy court for Hon. Rosemary Gambardella, Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, and for Hon. Donald H. Steckroth, Bankruptcy Judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. He also clerked for Hon. William J. Martini of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and for Hon. John E. Wallace, Jr. in the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court. Prof. Sousa is a contributing editor to four national bankruptcy publications, including the Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, the Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law and the multi-volume treatise Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 3d. He also co-authored the Consumer Bankruptcy Manual, published by Thomson Reuters, and is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice. Prof. Sousa received his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, his LL.M. in bankruptcy from St. John?s University School of Law and his M.A. in anthropology from the University of Denver, and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado ? Boulder.