Robert K. Rasmussen

Prof. Robert K. Rasmussen is a law professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, where he has been teaching since August 2007. His scholarship focuses on corporate restructurings, both inside and outside of bankruptcy. Prof. Rasmussen teaches contracts, business bankruptcy and syndicated loans, as well as an undergraduate class on the legal profession. He was named the J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science in 2015. Prof. Rasmussen, who served as dean from 2007-15, previously taught at Vanderbilt Law School for almost 20 years. He also has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and University of Michigan law schools. A widely cited scholar, Prof. Rasmussen is the author or co-author of dozens of articles published in some of the country’s leading law journals, including the Supreme Court Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. He has played a role in shaping the jurisprudence in his field as the principal author of an amicus curiae brief on behalf of nine law professors in the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court case of Bank of America v. 203 North LaSalle Street Partnership; was the principal author of an amicus curiae brief on behalf of three law professors in Integrated Telecom Express, Inc., a 2004 case decided by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals; and was the principal author of an amicus curiae brief on behalf of seven law professors in Owens Corning, a 2005 case also decided by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Prof. Rasmussen is a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He also chairs the board of directors of the AccessLex Institute. Prof. Rasmussen received his B.A. magna cum laude from Loyola University of Chicago and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was comment editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.