Prof. Ralph Brubaker

Prof. Ralph E. Brubaker, CPA is the James H.M. Sprayregen Professor of Law at the University ofIllinois in Champaign, Ill., where he teaches courses in bankruptcy, bankruptcy procedure, corporatere organizations, contracts, conflict of laws (private international law) and restitution. He previously clerked for Hon. James K. Logan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and he practiced in the bankruptcy and corporate reorganization group with the law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (nowSquire Patton Boggs) in Cleveland. Prof. Brubaker was a member of the faculty at the Emory UniversitySchool of Law in Atlanta, Georgia from 1995-2004, when he returned to his alma mater. He is the editor-in-chief and a contributing author of West?s Bankruptcy Law Letter, he is co-author of a bankruptcy casebook, and he has written dozens of journal articles and essays. He is particularly expert in the complex jurisdictional and procedural facets of federal bankruptcy proceedings. Prof. Brubaker has been an editorial advisor for the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Re-view and the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, for which he has been the Scholar-in-Residence. Prof. Brubaker has served on ABI?s Executive Committee, and he was a member of the advisory committee on business enterprise sales for the ABI?s 2014Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. He holds three degrees from the University of Illinois, including his J.D. summa cum laude and an M.B.A., and he received Bronze Tablet distinction (highest honors) and CPA certification as an undergraduate. In law school, he was a member of the Order of theCoif, a Harno Fellow, and a recipient of Rickert Awards for Excellence in Academic Achievement and in Legal Writing. In addition, he served as articles editor for the University of Illinois Law Review.